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 [...]
An article in a recent issue of the Saturday Evening Post features a touching article on how the latest implantable hearing technology has changed the lives of a sister and her brother.I performed the revision surgery on Mary Kay Windham with the Envoy Esteem implantable hearing aid in May 2005 as part of the clinical [...]
A study of more than 3500 men over a nearly 20-year period has found that folic acid may reduce the risk of hearing loss in men by 20 percent. The results of the study were presented at the 2009 American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) Annual Meeting in San Diego.Men [...]
A study conducted by researchers from Harvard University, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Vanderbilt University and the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary found that regular use of pain killers such as aspirin, acetaminophen and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) increases the risk of hearing loss in men below 60.
A study written up in the February 1 issue of Otolaryngology — Head and Neck Surgery reports that children with cochlear implants rate their quality of life as highly as children with normal hearing. It is one of the first studies that looked at children as well as their parents.
A gene associated with a rare form of progressive deafness in males has been identified by an international team of researchers funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. The gene, PRPS1, appears to be crucial in inner ear development and maintenance. The findings are published in the December 17 early online [...]
There is great news for people suffering from hearing loss: On December 18th, an Advisory Panel of independent ENT experts unanimously recommended that the FDA approve the Esteem®, the first Fully Implantable Hearing Restoration System.The Esteem device had been in the clinical trial stage for over five years. Shohet Ear Associates was one of three [...]
Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley and a consortium of Korean institutions finds that there is "possible evidence linking mobile phone use to an increased risk of tumors." Their analysis has been published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.During the meta-analysis, researchers examined 465 articles published in major journals and focused on 23 studies involving [...]
Studies presented at the Association for Research in Otolaryngology's annual conference earlier this year suggests that it may be possible for a combination of vitamins to protect against noise-induced and even age-related hearing loss in humans. Two separate studies, one using guinea pigs and the other, mice---showed that vitamin supplements containing the antioxidants beta carotene, vitamins [...]