Noise in Medical News

Acoustiblok, Inc. Combines Sound Abatement and Insulation Materials at Broward County Waste to Energy Plant to Reduce Industrial Noise Pollution

TAMPA, Fla., June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Public awareness of the health risks of industry-related noise pollution has never been higher. Industrial plants worldwide are incorporating serious sound abatement strategies into their infrastructure to protect employees and visitors from hearing loss and o...

Howard Leight Introduces QuietDose(TM): In-Ear Dosimetry Measures Noise Exposure in Real-Time to Help Prevent Workplace Hearing Loss

SMITHFIELD, R.I., May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Howard Leight today officially introduced QuietDose (TM) -- the only personal dosimeter that measures and records a worker's actual in-ear exposure to noise over an entire work shift. The introduction is a major advance towards stopping the progression o...

New hearing aid technology passes the restaurant noise test

The sound of a noisy Chicago restaurant during the breakfast rush the clang of plates and silverware and the clamor of many voices was the crucial test of new hearing aid technology in a study conducted by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The study showed tha...

More Cowbell! To end ALS, Riders of the Tri-State Trek Cycle 270 Miles - Making Noise and Raising Money!

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Hundreds of bicyclists are expected to participate in the sixth annual Tri-State Trek, a three-day fundraising ride starting in Newton, Massachusetts and finishing in White Plains, New York, this July 18-20. The event and its participants r...

Airplane Noise Boosts Blood Pressure Even During Sleep

More must be done to help people living near major flight hubs, researchers say TUESDAY, Feb. 12 (HealthDay News) -- People who live near major airports may be disturbed by the din of aircraft flying overhead all day, but a new study finds it can also boost their blood pressure even w...

Hearing 'messages' embedded in noise could be early sign of schizophrenia

New Haven, Conn.A tendency to extract messages from meaningless noise could be an early sign of schizophrenia, according to a study by Yale School of Medicine researchers. The study this month in the British Journal of Psychiatry reported on 43 participants diagnosed with prodromal symptoms m...

NoiseBuster(R) Safeguards Hearing by Utilizing Cutting-Edge Technology to Attenuate Power Equipment Noise

Professional-Grade NoiseBuster Active Noise Reduction Earmuff Delivers Best Hearing Protection WILTON, Conn., March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The NoiseBuster Active Noise Reduction ("ANR") Safety Earmuff is specifically designed to reduce the noise generated by lawn, landscape and garden power equip...

Soldiers Exposed To Gunshot Noise Need Better Hearing Protection

A new study published in the January issue of the medical journal Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery strongly recommends better hearing protection for soldiers to// prevent permanent long-term hearing loss that can be caused by exposure to the sound of gunshots. The study measured the imp...

Constant Exposure to Noise May Enhance Risk of Heart Attack

Heart’s are getting sensitive to noise, and do not like it much! According to a new study, those living or working in noisy surroundings// may face an increased risk of suffering a heart attack. Researchers in Germany revealed that the chances of urban middle-aged adults, living on high-tra...

High Decibel Noise May Lead To Tumor

EAR Shattering News! Latest research by Edwards and Schwartz Baum from the Institute of Environmental Medicine of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, suggest, that people// who are constantly exposed to loud noise, could risk developing a non-cancerous tumor, ultimately leading to deafne...

Irritating Noise Increases Risk Of Heart Attacks

A study conducted by German researchers has found that besides being really harsh on the ears, high-level noise can be bad for the heart as well. Writing in the latest issue of the European Heart Journal // , the researchers stress that increased decibel levels could mean an increased risk of heart...

Hospital Noise Raises The Risk Of Medical Error: Study

High decibel levels in hospitals disturbs both patients and doctors, and increases medical error risks, according to a study.// Noise made by speakers, electronic devices, heating and cooling systems and by loud voices of employees and visitors can result in lapses in short-term memory, accor...

High Levels Of Noise In Work Place Found To Increase Blood Pressure

Sound is a wave, a series of compressions in air. Sound can trigger memories, release past memories, stimulate joy and can even be used in the process of healing, a technique called sympathetic resonance. Reduction in noise levels // and blood pressure has been associated with a 35-40 percent reduc...

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

It's the latest wrinkle in research toward finding a pill that will help protect and even treat hearing loss from exposure to loud noise. While the effort is hardly new, experts say it has picked up steam in just the past few years.// Starting in a few months, a group of 600 Marines will face ri...

Preventing falls in elderly with noise

A new study by the researchers of University of British Columbia had showed that noise// might be not a hindrance but a help to our concentration and efficiency, more so when that is effectively used to help the older people maintain their balance. Noise is often thought as the one sensation t...

New Custom Hybrid Planetary Gearbox Series from NMB

...ries are available in flexible design with custom mounting, shafts, and low noise plastic and steel gearing options. Chatsworth, C...tion for lower torque and duty cycle applications can be provided. For low noise requirements, the standard spur gearing can be substituted with plastic and...

Pet Bite Injuries: K-State Veterinarian Shares Tips to Minimize Risk of Bites and Bite-Related Infections

...eterinarians advise children to "stand still like a tree," or if on the ground to "curl up like a rock." "Waving your arms, running or making noise will keep the dog's interest, while staying perfectly still will encourage the dog to walk away," she said. For more information on dog bite ...

Children with autism need to be taught in smaller groups, pilot study confirms

... in the classroom and we need to carefully control the levels of background noise that these kids are exposed to. Imagine how frustrating it must be to sit i...er or your classmates are saying to you. "Being able to detect speech in noise plays a vital role in how we communicate with each other because our listen...

Talk With Kids, Not At Them

...m about what they're doing, such as, 'I'm putting on your pajamas now.' But give your child the opportunity to talk, hopefully without the rest of the noise in the environment," she added. "If parents can carve out some conversation time -- maybe at bath time or at dinnertime -- that's a wonderful thing." ...

Air Methods Petitions NTSB for Reconsideration of Probable Cause Determination

...nsideration and deletion of the Board's finding that a contributing cause in the accident was "the failure of Air Methods' pilot to follow arrival and noise abatement guidelines;" The addition, as a contributing cause, the presence of prescription pain-killing medication in the Classic pilot's bl...

Real-Time Control of Wheelchairs with Brain Waves

...Leader, and Kyuwan Choi, Research Scientist, of BTCC's Noninvasive BMI Unit. (1) Blind signal separation (BSS) is a technology that separates the noise components and useful signal components from brain signals that can be used to control the wheelchair. It utilizes only on-line-recorded EEG signals. ...

ICM Controls' Award-Winning Comfort Control Center Improves Comfort and Indoor Air Quality While Lowering Energy Costs

... Control, being able to control the motor speed can also greatly reduce fan noise for overall quieter system operation. This is a great benefit for any residential or small commercial property owner experiencing noise abatement issues. The CC750 Motor Speed Control not only promotes Energ...

Make Nursing Homes More Like Home: Medicare

...call to "de-institutionalize" the nursing home's physical environment by doing away with things such as meals served on "institutional" trays, blaring noise from overhead paging speakers, and large nursing stations. Efforts to individualize and personalize care, stressing the importance of personal one-...

K-State Veterinarian Says Although Exotic Pets Can Be Great Companions, There Are Health Factors That Can Affect Both the Animal and Humans

... pet, for mutual benefit, and the animals should keep away from each other's food and water bowls. Some exotic animals do not like much handling, noise or strangers, and agitating the animal puts the owner at risk for bites and scratches. Bite wounds can become infected with bacteria from the pet's mo...

Sanford Installs New Low Dose CT Technology

...ord Children's makes for the future and health of our young patients." ASIR is a new, advanced reconstruction technique that reduces image noise and improves low contrast detectability and image quality. This technology produces an enhanced image and scan and a reduced radiation dose to patient...

Online Store Offers Affordable Digital Hearing Aids For Baby Boomers

...lmination of 30 years of solving the needs of hearing impaired people. HearPod aids are 100% digital, full-featured and have some of the most advanced noise canceling and sound amplification computer chips available. Their innovative design also reduces sound feedback inside the ear , thereby making HearP...

IUPUI chemists develop Distributed Drug Discovery: Finding drugs for neglected diseases

... computers on overnight. While normally idle, each one of these computers looks for patterns in a small subset of the incredibly large amount of space noise signals received by arrays of radio telescopes scanning the skies. Two studies, published this year in the Journal of Combinatorial Chemistry , de...

Ceremony at Passavant Area Hospital to Launch Efficiency Improvements

...hile decreasing energy consumption. The study identified three physical environment opportunities for improvement, including temperature control, noise level and aging plant systems and equipment. The study also demonstrated that these energy upgrades will improve the environment of care through bette...

Howard Leight Selects Tiziani Whitmyre for Public Relations Services

...ficially launched Howard Leight's new QuietDose technology, the only personal dosimeter that measures and records a worker's actual in-ear exposure to noise over an entire work shift. The introduction of QuietDose is a major advance towards stopping the progression of occupational hearing loss and ens...

Stranger's Cell Phone Ring May Thwart Your Thinking

...e exposed to different types of sound: "irrelevant," non-cell-phone-related noise from an undetermined source; a standard cell phone ring; and a ringtone con...y on their task," Shelton said. However, those who heard the irrelevant noise were able to get back to their task much faster than people hearing either ...

Sound Surgical Technologies' Chief Technology Officer Presents Paper on Focused Ultrasound Technology

...ogy, physiology, psychology, architecture, speech, noise and noise control, and music. To assure adequate attention t...dures, and criteria for determining the effects of noise and vibration. Readers interested in learning mo...

MIT: New system monitors fetal heartbeat

...he mother's heartbeat, so teasing out a tiny fetal signal in the background noise without altering the clinical meaning of the fetal signal is a problem that...ew system separates the maternal ECG signal from the fetus's and background noise thanks to a complex algorithm derived from the fields of signal processing ...

Is your environment damaging your health? New center aims to find out

...n which they live and work, from traffic fumes and noise from overhead aircraft, to chemicals in the enviro...r London's Heathrow airport, exploring how air and noise pollution can affect people's health. The research.... Current evidence suggests that air pollution and noise affect the cardiovascular system in different ways...

It's How You Listen That Counts

...ng youth the knowledge and tools to protect their hearing it is our hope that we can do our part to lower the staggering number of people affected by noise Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL)," Currently NIHL affects over 26 million Americans (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disor...

Acoustics world wide press room now open

...gy, physics, animal bioacoustics, medicine, music, noise control, and speech. An index of all the lay-langu.../brady.html . HARVESTING ENERGY FROM AIRPLANE noise "A novel acoustic liner system has been investig....acoustics.org/press/157th/sheplak.html . CAN noise FROM RACE CARS BREAK GLASS? "... a large tempere...

In Time for Better Hearing and Speech Month: VidaCura.com and Nexear Offers Consumers an Alternative to Traditional Costly Hearing Aids

...earing aids from VidaCura offer an alternative. Providing the latest digital signal processing technology including adaptive feedback cancellation and noise reduction, they're available in both in the ear (ITE) and behind the ear (BTE) styles. "A hearing evaluation should be part of every medical...

Stratford's Institutional Investment Consulting Service Receives HFMA Peer Review Designation

...usiness interactions and careers. "For years HFMA members have asked us to identify viable healthcare finance resources and to filter some of the noise in the market place," says HFMA President and CEO Richard L. Clarke, FHFMA. "We see the new Peer Review Process as a powerful opportunity to do just t...

Children and teenagers at risk for noise-induced hearing loss, warn America's ENT doctors

...ers are frequently exposed to potentially damaging noise levels in schools, at home, and in sports, but the...ng loss, with 30 million more exposed to dangerous noise levels each day. For children and teenagers, one o...ound of their music. Teach your child to avoid the noise (walk away) if they feel it is too loud. Sound...

Stanford researcher's discovery of ion channel turns ear on its head

...rotect the ear against sounds that are too loud. Through a process called adaptation, the ear adjusts the sensitivity of its ion channels to match the noise level in the environment. Most people are already familiar with this phenomenon, Ricci said, though they might not realize it. "If you watch TV in bed...

My Mother/Myself: Migraine Headaches are Hereditary

...ng will be prone. When mom describes one-sided, throbbing and pulsating head pain, accompanied by nausea, vomiting and sensitivity to light and noise in various combinations, she probably has or had migraines. And, if mom had headaches around her period, she probably had menstrual migraine, which i...