Category: Hearing Issues

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Any parent who has tried to comfort a child with an ear infection will appreciate Fan-Gang Zeng’s prediction.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Toronto, Canada – Black Americans 65 years and older have much better hearing than their White counterparts

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – LOS ANGELES — Exposure to loud noise, such as a firecracker or an ear-splitting concert, is the most common preventable cause of hearing loss.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – An interdisciplinary team at Saint Louis University is collaborating to educate African American adults 60 and over about the link between brain health and hearing loss while providing vital services for the community.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – A growing number of people are suffering from hearing loss due to exposure to loud noises from heavy machinery, concerts, or explosions.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – If you woke up one morning and found you couldn’t see out of one eye, odds are you’d call the eye doctor immediately — or even go to the emergency room.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – If heart attacks blared a warning signal, patients would have a better chance of avoiding them. That’s the idea behind a new imaging technique developed by a Spartan-led team of researchers.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Humans can observe what and where something happens around them with their hearing, as long as sound frequencies lie between 20 Hz and 20 000 Hz.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Kelly Slusarz was in her early 20s when she first had signs of hearing loss. Thinking she was too young to be losing her hearing, she ignored them and compensated for her loss by reading lips.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Tinnitus is the perception of noise or ringing in the ears. A common problem, tinnitus affects about 15% to 20% of people. Tinnitus isn’t a condition itself — it’s a symptom of an underlying condition

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Every high-school physics student learns that sound and light travel at very different speeds. If the brain did not account for this difference, it would be much harder for us to tell where sounds came from, and how they are related to what we see.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) -A new study led by a University of Miami Miller School of Medicine researcher underscores the importance of screening adolescents with hearing loss for depression and anxiety.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – The sense of hearing is, quite literally, a molecular tightrope act. Turns out, it involves acrobatics as well.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – DETROIT (December 23, 2020) – This holiday season, Angela Holland will enjoy the gift of hearing from her left ear again.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Hearing loss and diabetes are major public health problems, with Latinos at higher risk than other demographic groups.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Hearing loss experts at Mass Eye and Ear are advocating for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to implement a law passed by Congress permitting the sale of over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – COLUMBUS, Ohio — We hear sounds in part because tiny filaments inside our inner ears help convert voices, music and noises into electrical signals that are sent to our brains for processing.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Using a device that could be built with a dollar’s worth of open-source parts and a 3D-printed case, researchers want to help the hundreds of millions of older people worldwide who can’t afford existing hearing aids….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – During the COVID-19 pandemic, with masks covering the faces around us, it’s impossible to see the facial expressions and lip movements that are so vital to daily spoken communication….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – How could the tiny, tightly connected parts of the ear adapt independently to the amazingly diverse functional and environmental regimes encountered in mammals?