With all the discussion on health care reform, you may have heard references to something called an “electronic medical record,” or EMR.These basically function as a digital patient chart, and here are many advantages to EMRs...
The increasing use of explosive devices in combat zones is resulting in the rise of lingering hearing conditions in military personnel. As a result, the U.S. Department of Defense supporting a study at Washington University to determine if there are preexisting vulnerabilities in the brain’s networks that are associated with the development of tinnitus.
A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Florida has found that up to one-quarter of college students who were tested during the study suffered from hearing loss.
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.
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 [...]