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Hearing Loss Becoming an Epidemic in Canada

...e first and buy a $15 pair of cheap sound-blocking ear protectors, said Murray. "You might just be doing a few cuts, but with hearing loss, the damage is cumulative. Each half hour of extreme noise adds up." As Ferguson notes that when it comes to earplugs, there's a disconnect between what we know, an...

The Plight of Jharkhand's Mysterious deaf Village

...f hearing. But the authorities have hardly lent an ear to their plight. The problem has mysteriously persisted for decades in the Muslim-dominated Jhumarvad village of Deogarh district, about 350 km from here. Shamshool Mia, a 62-year-old villager, said: "I am hard of hearing since birth. I consulte...

Day Care Centres Possibly Give Rise to More Infection, an Australian Study

... respiratory infections, bronchiolitis, pneumonia, ear infection and gastroenteritis, according to the study published in the Paediatric Infectious Disease Journal . Dr Deborah Lehmann, who heads the institute's infectious diseases unit, said the results supported US studies showing infection rates w...

Car Sickness for the Little Ones can Be Prevented

... in Palo Alto, Calif. The messages from the inner ear (balance department) conflict with the messages fr...inst poisoning, the brain will listen to the inner ear over the eyes because vision problems are an early indication of poisoning. In other words, if yo...

Tinnitus Patients can Lead a Normal Life

...iggered by various factors: from a wax plug in the ear or infection in the middle ear, to hearing loss or...less, the origin of the problem mostly lies in the ear itself and in the internal auditory passage. Nevertheless, knowing the possible origin of the tinn...

First Gene Linked to Scoliosis Identified

... mental retardation, genital and urinary problems, ear abnormalities, and deafness among other problems. They also develop late-onset scoliosis. "This led us to consider that milder variations of CHD7 may be involved in other types of scoliosis," Bowcock said. Led by Dr. Carol Wise, the researchers c...

Stem Cells Aid in Hearing Recovery

...ne marrow stem cells injected into a damaged inner ear can speed hearing recovery after partial hearing l... or partial. Such loss may involve damage to inner ear cells called cochlear fibrocytes, which are fundamental to inner ear function. Some natural regene...

Smokers Blow Their Infants Health into Thin Air

....' They are also likely to have asthma, allergies, ear infections and eczema. Paolo Vineis, a professor of environmental epidemiology at Imperial College London, in a report published in the January 28, 2007 online issue of the British Medical Journal found that children exposed to secondhand smoke on ...

Breast-feeding Protects Mothers from Rheumatoid Arthritis

...d infants have lower rates of hospital admissions, ear infections, diarrhoea, rashes, allergies and other medical problems than bottle-fed babies. Breast-feeding not only helps the child against various diseases but benefits the mother as well. Previous studies have shown that it can lower a mother's r...

Boffin Identifies Gene Causing Otosclerosis

...ive hearing loss as the growing bone in the middle ear interrupts the sound waves passing to the inner ea...t plays a role during embryonic development of the ear and is expressed in otosclerotic bone. They used SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism) analysis, or...

Genes Influence the Ability to Listen Two Things at a Time

Your ability to listen to a phone message in one ear while a friend is talking into your other earand c...y altered one-syllable words played into the right ear and tried to identify the word. One test artificially filtered out high-pitched sounds, which tended...

Patients Undergoing Tonsillectomy Shows No Change of Taste

... procedures, including radiation treatment, middle ear surgery, dental or oral surgery or tonsillectomy, also can cause taste dysfunction. Christian A. Mueller, M.D., of the University of Vienna, Austria, and colleagues asked 65 tonsillectomy patients (42 females, 23 males; average age 28) to rate their...

Men Under Knife to Reduce Bulging Waistline in Britian

...row lifts account for 5%, chin implants for 3% and ear surgery for 2%. Surgeon Patrick Whitfield said: 'In many cases, saggy skin around the eye area can add a decade on to a man. Its extremely rewarding seeing a rather conservative 50-something man bound out of the clinic after his six-week post-oper...

Boyfriend Bites Off Lip and Ear of 3-year-old Daughter of His Girlfriend

...per part of her lip. In addition, police said, her ear was so badly mutilated that surgery could not restore it to its natural state. Children's Hospital, Boston, felt it was one of the most horrific abuse cases they have seen, according to police. State and local police officers were tipped off that...

Genetic Disease Causes hearing loss

...ause of a tumor-associated hemorrhage in the inner ear , according to a study in the July 4 issue of JAMA...ociated findings included aural [pertaining to the ear or hearing] fullness, aural pain, facial nerve weakness, and aural pain and facial nerve weakness co...

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