Our open house, "New Hearing Technologies are Changing Lives," was a great success! We were thrilled to help so many people hear and communicate better. If you are interested in learning more about the latest technologies and would like to improve your hearing, please contact us.
Many people don't realize that there are more than 200 known ototoxic medications on the market today that can cause temporary or permanent hearing loss----and some are over-the counter meds that are probably in your medicine cabinet.
A just-published study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society is the first one to show that wearing hearing aids reduces the cognitive decline associated with hearing loss.
Communication requires a talker and a listener. Researchers have studied the talker element of the communication equation and have found some results that help improve understanding and that both talkers and listeners can use. If you have a hearing loss, please share these tips with the important people in your life. If you converse with someone with hearing loss, then you can take advantage of several strategies to help make the process of communication smoother.
When a person experiences hearing loss, many factors come into play. This is why it is hard to describe what hearing loss really sounds like. An article from NPR includes audio clips designed by renowned speech and hearing researcher Arthur Boothroyd, Ph.D. to help demonstrate the challenges a person with hearing loss faces.
For Americans who are afflicted with some type of hearing loss, the options for restoring their hearing have focused solely on assistive devices such as hearing aids and cochlear implants. Now, promising research at major academic medical centers such as Stanford and the University of Southern California (USC) is employing the use of stem cells to develop therapies that may help cure hearing loss.
Some restaurant owners are finally waking up and realizing that their customers may actually want to hear their dining companions while eating out.
The U.S. military is actively testing an experimental drug that may prevent noise-induced hearing loss. If the drug is approved by federal regulators, it would be the first one to prevent hearing loss.
According to a study conducted by researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the National Institute on Aging, older adults with hearing loss lose brain tissue faster and to a greater degree than adults with normal hearing.
An 8th grader from Rochester MN has found a way to prolong the life of hearing aid batteries by an astounding 80%.