Category: Hearing Issues

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Sarayi was born without ears, but now she hears the birds and her mother’s voice. Donna is a nurse who chooses to hear every heartbeat clearly. Margaret was reunited with the love of her life when her husband decided to seek help. Joseph, a former boxer, hears the bell ring at his beloved matches once again.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – WASHINGTON, June 1, 2012 — During National Employee Wellness Month, the Better Hearing Institute (BHI) is urging employers to make hearing health a key aspect of their workplace wellness initiatives, the institute announced today.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – WASHINGTON, May 15, 2012 — Jacqueline Holton and her husband, Lynn, of Hudsonville, Mich., were always active and social, and even taught line dancing at their local community center.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – PORTLAND, Ore., May 1, 2012 — The American Tinnitus Association (ATA) is celebrating National Tinnitus Awareness Week (TAW), May 13 – 19, 2012. This year, ATA is “going for gold” in its efforts to raise awareness and encourage people across the United States and around the world to help educate people about “ringing in the ears.”

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – DETROIT, Feb. 1, 2012 — Henry Ford Health System today announced that it will be implementing new and additional processes to ensure effective communication between deaf or hard-of-hearing patients and health care providers.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – U-M study finds noise exposure can cause long-lasting changes to sensory pathways; touch sensing nerve cells may be the gateway to future tinnitus treatments

(HealthNewsDigest.com)—The level of noise in some environments may surprise you. For example, some people may think that farms are quiet places, but plows, combines, tractors and even farm animals can create a noisy, high-decibel environment that puts hearing at risk. Prolonged exposure to any noise at or above 85 decibels can cause gradual hearing loss and many types of farm equipment run at 100 decibels or higher.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – BUFFALO, N.Y. – University at Buffalo research showing that a new drug that eliminated tinnitus with a single dose in animal models is among the advances that will be presented at the Fifth Tinnitus Research Initiative Conference, “The Neuroscience of Tinnitus,” sponsored by UB’s Center for Hearing and Deafness Aug. 19-21 in Grand Island, N.Y.