Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
I swear, ever since the iPod came out, my hearing has suffered. Either that, or I'm getting old. But the fact is, audiologists tell us that prolonged exposure to loud noises can indeed cause damage to the ear. And it's kids and teens who are really at risk.
Ivanhoe Broadcast News (Free subscription) | yesterday
For those who inherited their hearing loss, a new discovery may take away the mystery surrounding their condition.
Dayton Daily News (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
A Washington Twp. woman claims she went into Banana Republic at the Mall at Fairfield Commons to try on a leather jacket and came out with a hearing loss from the security device.
IntoMobile (Free subscription) | yesterday
Think cellphone radiation can cause cancer, hearing loss, and other adverse health effects? You’re not alone. A California man has taken his cellphone radiation health concerns to court, and the lawsuit has been transferred to the federal level. Michael R. Bennett filed suit against T-Mobile, Motorola, and Samsung over the dangerous radiation emitted by the devices [...]
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
U.S., French and German researchers link a form of inherited hearing loss to a mutation on gene SLC17A8. Researchers from France's Universite Montpellier, Inserm U513 in Paris, Germany 's University of Goettingen Medical School joined with U.S.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Researchers said they had evidence that as many as 29 million people in this country might have at least some hearing loss.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
French women never die. Elizabeth, my husband's 96-year-old mother-in-law from his previous marriage, is proof of this. She is bedridden, has macular degeneration, deafness and dementia. But there is no cancer and her heart is steel. She is cared for at home in an old mining village near Lille. Marguerite has been the primary carer for eight years. She comes for two hours in the morning and four in...
TruthNews.us (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Hearing loss is one of the most common ailments that affects troops sent back to combat, according to the Pentagon and government researchers.
Raw Story (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
In addition, recent study shows one in five combat vets suffer PTSD.
Prophecy Fellowship Forums (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Mon Jul 28, 4:14 PM ET CHICAGO (Reuters) - One of three U.S. adults already suffers from some degree of hearing loss and the use of personal stereos and an aging population may create a hearing impairment epidemic, researchers said on Monday. A team at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Too many children with hearing loss aren't getting adequate help and are being put at risk for social, emotional, behavioral, and learning difficulties, the Better Hearing Institute warned today, citing a national study exploring the unforeseen consequences of untreated hearing loss in America's children. The warning comes just as educators and parents...
Joey Baer's ASL Vlog (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
After playing basketball for a long time, I have noticed something while playing. I wonder whether Deaf basketball players call for fouls more frequently than Hearing basketball players do? Secondly, is it the nature of Deaf people’s lives to relay on visual and feel that calls for more fouls? Watch and share your [...]
USA Today (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Hearing loss is one of the most common ailments that affects troops sent back to combat, according to the Pentagon and government ...
I look so I can hear.... (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
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Medical,Health News and Articles (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
Pat Phalin learned she had hearing loss at 30, when she volunteered to give hearing tests at her local school. The pupils heard sounds she could not hear. Her husband Larry, a genealogy enthusiast, saw a pattern in his wife’s family history. Her mother, grandfather and great-grandfather had severe hearing loss as adults. One of the [...]
