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Hearing Problems Of Middle Age Are Affecting The Younger Generation

...ys Robert Novak, director of clinical education in audiology and associate department head. "This loss is often self-induced and may be related to young people's exposure to amplified sound and use of personal listening systems, such as cell phones and portable music devices, that students seem to be always us...

Pill might be able to reduce the damage loud noise does to your hearing

...ays to manage it", said Sharon Kujawa, director of audiology at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. "For as much government regulation as we have for noise exposure on the job, it's a very difficult thing to get people to comply, and also to carry that out in their leisure activities," she said. Scienti...

NHS To Screen Newborn Babies For Hearing Impairment

... parents from an early age." Angela King, a senior audiology specialist for the Royal National Institute for the Deaf said that the new test was a welcome step, "If your baby is deaf, it's important to know as soon as possible so that you can give them the best possible chance to develop language and communica...

Hearing May Be Regained: Research Provides Hopes

...ision, and reversing hearing loss. Professor of audiology at the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, at the University of Southampton, Mark Lutman said: "The only similar cells have the been made to regenerate in mammals are vestibular hair cells, so it's not the first time mammalian hair cells have...

Hearing Loss Becoming an Epidemic in Canada

... it's only going to get worse. Victoria McLeod, an audiology manager with ReSound Canada in Toronto, said she is seeing a definite change in the numbers. "Ten years ago most people coming in were in their 70s. Now it's people in their 50s and 60s - some are even in their 30s." She added that studies have ind...

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