You most likely know someone who has a hearing loss. Whether it affects a relative, child, friend or co-worker, or even yourself, hearing loss is a prevalent and often neglected concern. Hearing loss affects over 30 million Americans or 1 in every 10 people; in fact, it’s the second most common birth defect. Despite these [...]
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A new NIH study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine (July, 2008), report that hearing loss is almost twice as common in adults with diabetes compared to those without the disease. While a link has long been suspected this is the first to show a relationship even after accounting for other factors such as [...]
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Patients who undergo radiation therapy for head and neck cancer experience more hearing loss and are more disabled by its effects, according to a study in the Archives of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery. Problem Head and neck cancer is the sixth most common type of cancer worldwide and radiation therapy is a common treatment. Researchers [...]
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New research published in a recent edition of the American Journal of Audiology, a journal published by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), Rockville, Md, reported that cardiovascular health positively impacts hearing over time, particularly among older adults. Growing older can contribute to decreased hearing acuity; however, age is only one of many factors that contribute [...]
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Monday, January 18th 2010 Australia is known for its beer, its bar-bies, kangaroos, koalas and lovers. Lovers? Well, maybe that’s not the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Australia but, according to a recent Australian report, the country is hot to trot thanks to advances in hearing aid technology. Yep, all [...]
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Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) — A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected a class-action lawsuit seeking to hold Apple Inc responsible for possible hearing loss caused by using its popular iPod music player. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco affirmed a 2008 district court ruling that the plaintiffs failed to show [...]
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LONDON, Dec. 29, 2009 (Reuters) — Individually designed music therapy may help reduce noise levels in people suffering from tinnitus, or ear ringing, German scientists said on Monday. The researchers designed musical treatments adapted to the musical tastes of patients with ear-ringing and then stripped out sound frequencies that matched the individual’s tinnitus frequency. After [...]
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Sonitus Medical Inc, San Mateo, Calif, a privately held medical device company, reports the development of its SoundBite hearing system, a nonsurgical and removable hearing solution that the company says is designed to imperceptibly transmit sound via the teeth. Relying on the principle of bone conduction, the hearing and communication platform is initially intended as [...]
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Children who have cochlear implants (CI) rank their quality of life (QOL) equal to their normally hearing (NH) peers, indicates new research in the February 2010 issue of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery. A cochlear implant is an electronic device that restores partial hearing to the deaf. It is surgically implanted in the inner [...]
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A team of researchers from the University of Oregon, Eugene, Ore, say they have isolated an independent processing channel of synapses inside the brain’s auditory cortex that deals specifically with shutting off sound processing at appropriate times. Such regulation is vital for hearing and for understanding speech. The discovery, detailed in the February 11 issue [...]
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