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Is There a Connection between Hearing loss and High-speed Dental Tools?

... to the tiny hair-like structures within the inner ear and if exposure to loud noise continues, permanent...nally are known to require dental students to wear ear protection while treating patients. School of Dentistry Dean Jack Clinton, D.M.D., welcomed Folmer...

Turn the volume down to save your ears!!

... Mick Sheppard of Hand Held Audio, who fitted the ear pieces, said: "In-ear monitoring helps protect hearing by facilitating much lower stage volumes and eliminating feedback." "The musician has the volume control and has to resist the temptation to keep on turning it up." Thus, the earplugs have to be ...

SWAN system for navigation

...-D sound application schedules sounds to reach one ear slightly faster than the other, and the human brain uses that timing difference to figure out where the sound originated. The 3-D audio beacons for navigation are unique to SWAN. Other navigation systems use speech cues such as "walk 100 yards and ...

Health Clinics At Supermarkets?

...l examine patients with Bronchitis, colds, coughs, ear infections, flu, laryngitis, sinus infections, sore throat, strep throat, upper respiratory infections as well as minor injuries like minor burns, splinters, sprains and strains, staple and suture removals. Dr. Frank Madda of the DuPage County Medi...

Gene linked to Hearing Loss in Aged Identified

... sent to the brain transmitting it back into inner ear fluid. Scientists are already aware that a mutation in this gene linked to hereditary hearing loss happens early in life, irrespective of exposure to noise and other environmental factors. The University of Antwerp team undertook the study of ove...

Alternative therapies for ADHD

...achines, treating kids for imbalances of the inner ear and yeast infections -- even hanging youngsters upside down on the monkey bars and encouraging them to chew gum to burn off energy, have been tried by parents for years. Diet alterations and herbal remedies are recommended by Lowell psychologist St...

Hearing May be affected by Certain Hormone Replacement Therapies

...York. The researchers found problems in the inner ear and in certain brain function measures that affect hearing. The study's lead researcher, Doctor Robert Frisina of the University of Rochester Medical Center, has urged women considering such therapy to have their hearing checked beforehand and, if th...

Ear Infections Treated with “Let’s Wait and Se’

Children with acute ear infections have been found to get better without a... study evaluated a 'wait-and-see' prescription for ear infections in children. Compared to children who were given antibiotics, children in the wait-and-se...

Vaccine for ear and sinus infections to be developed…

...ement of trials of a new vaccine against childhood ear and sinus infections and several bronchitis cases ...nzae or NTHi, which is the main remaining cause of ear and sinus infections and bronchitis, now that vaccines exist for various forms of streptococcal bact...

Try a Melodious Intervention to Smother away Test Anxiety

... were asked to bring their favorite music and with ear buds taped to each participant, music was played with audibility adjusted to only the patient. Results showed that those who listened to music required considerably lesser doses of sedatives than those who didn’t, without compromising on comfort le...

Williams Syndrome, the Brain, and Music

...an normal, the temporal lobe, which lies above the ear canal and, among other things, is involved in processing sounds and interpreting music and language, is of approximately normal volume in people with Williams syndrome. In their study, the researchers tried to answer the question of whether an atypic...

Smoke-Filled Cars: New Fodder for the Next Clean Air Fight

...llution is linked to sudden infant death syndrome, ear infections and asthma attacks in children. “There is an argument that even exposure for very short periods of time, perhaps even 10 seconds can precipitate asthmatic episodes in children,” Rees said. He added that ventilation won’t likely overcome ...

Identifying Bottlenecks to Breastfeeding

...cted from gastroenteritis, respiratory infections, ear infections and eczema, while mothers who breastfeed are at a low risk for developing breast cancer, ovarian cancer and osteoporosis....

Tune Your Brain to Hear Another in a Noisy Ambience

... what this was like, Irving wore an earplug in one ear for a week which gave him a one-sided hearing loss... (a sound coming from the left will reach the left ear slightly faster than it reaches the right ear). This is known as binaural or "spatial" hearing becau...

‘Evil’ Gene causing ‘glue ear’ in ids

...entified the gene that may be responsible for glue ear in kids. It is the inflammation of the middle ear and is the major cause of hearing// impairment in children. This condition is also known as otitis m...

Allergy Drugs More Harmful Than Helpful for Chronic Ear Inflammation

...s not painful, the presence of fluid in the middle ear can cause problems with hearing and balance. Ant...he need for surgery to drain fluid from the middle ear — the drugs performed no better than placebo. In fact, for hearing loss, there was a trend toward wo...

Digital ID Chips Implanted in Dogs to Prevent Rabies

...l chip implants - under the skin of the dog's left ear - in 2001, and rolled the method out citywide in 2004," Wang was quoted as saying. According to official statistics, Shanghai now has about 100,000 registered dogs and the digital ID system covers most of them. Dogs are inoculated and given a dig...

Most Of The Ear Infections Entertain Both Bacteria And Viruses

...ry techniques to identify the pathogen that caused ear infections, known clinically as acute otitis media (AOM), in 79 young children. They found bacteria in 92 percent of the cases, viruses in 70 percent, and both bacteria and viruses in 66 percent. According to Aino Ruohola, MD, PhD, from the Turku ...

Call Centre Staff Could Face Hearing Damage Risk

...r permanent disturbances of the functioning of the ear or of the nervous system, which may be caused to the user of a telephone or earphone by a sudden sharp rise in the acoustic pressure produced by it. The sound could be a whistle, a bleep or any unexpected noise. Two thirds of call centres in Britain...

Vulnerability to Ear Infections Lessened by Breast Feeding

...n that are breast fed are able to overcome certain ear infections that occur due to genetic abnormalities... Medical Branch at Galveston. Chronic, recurrent ear infections occur in as many as 19 % children. Ear infections can lead to learning disorders as it in...

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