A new study published February 23 in the Journal of the American Medical Association reports that that holding a cell phone to your ear for a sustained period of time does cause temporary changes to your brain, though it's unclear whether the impact is good, bad or neutral. The study, led by the National Institutes of Health, is among the first to show that cell phones alter brain metabolism.
A new study published in the February 2011 issue of Archives of Neurology shows that adults with hearing loss have a greater chance of developing dementia, a risk that increases as their deafness worsens.
The Better Hearing Institute (BHI) is teaming up this year with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and the American Heart Association (AHA) to promote American Heart Month in February and to create awareness of the link between heart and hearing health.
According to research just published in the Journal of Laryngology and Otology, driving in a convertible with the top down may damage your hearing.
A new research study published this month in the medical journal Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery makes a link between low levels of folic acid in the blood and age-related hearing loss in the elderly.
According to an article that recently appeared in ScienceDaily, scientists have developed a test that can screen all of the genes known to cause deafness in a single run, rather than the time-consuming and expensive process that had to be used previously. Pinpointing the exact genetic cause of inherited deafness involved sequencing one gene at [...]
By Joni Doherty, MD, PhD Our last blog touched on the link between hearing loss and moderate chronic kidney disease (CKD), and how older adults with CKD have a higher prevalence of hearing loss. Now, a new study suggests a link between a persistently noisy environment and heart disease.Researchers at the University of British Columbia [...]
A new study points up the link between hearing loss and moderate chronic kidney disease (CKD) in older adults. According to the report published October 3 in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases, the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation, adults aged 50 and older with moderate chronic kidney disease (CKD) have a higher [...]
In my last blog, I discussed the disturbing results of a new research study that found one in five American teenagers already has some degree of hearing loss----a startling 31 percent increase since the late 1980s. The study results were recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, and showed that the number [...]
A new research study has found that one in five American teenagers already has some degree of hearing loss----a startling 31 percent increase since the late 1980s.Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston used government survey data to compare rates of hearing loss among 12- to 19-year-olds during 1988 to 1994, with the period [...]