By Cheryl Tanita, M.S., Au.D. Shohet Ear Associates is the first practice in Orange County to offer the SoundBite™ Hearing System, an innovative approach to treating patients with single-sided deafness. SoundBite is the world’s first removable and non-surgical hearing solution to use the well-established principle of bone conduction to imperceptibly transmit sound via the teeth [...]
Those of you who have heard about the totally implantable hearing aid called the Envoy Esteem may be interested in a scientific paper just published November 17 in the medical journal, Otology & Neurotology. The paper is co-authored by me and my colleagues who participated in the clinical trials for Esteem, Drs. Eric M. Kraus, [...]
A new study suggests that men who take Viagra or similar type drugs could be at an increased risk for long-term hearing loss.
NPR’s health blog, Shots, recently posted an interesting article entitled “How Music May Help Ward Off Hearing Loss As We Age.” It recounts the results of a study conducted by Nina Kraus, director of the Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory at Northwestern University. To quote the article: "If you spend a lot of your life interacting with [...]
If you are a parent and needed another reason to quit smoking, here it is: A new study links second hand smoke, or SHS, to a reduction in teens' ability to hear both high and low frequencies.
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.