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Can they hear you now? Kids increasingly exposed to noise health risks via earbuds and headphones

Written by | 25 Feb 2024

While it’s not surprising to spot teens wearing headphones and earbuds, it’s also becoming a widespread trend among younger children, a national poll suggests. Two in three parents […]

Hearing aid use lowers risk of death

Written by | 6 Jan 2024

For people with hearing loss, the risk of death is lower among those who regularly use a hearing aid, researchers reported on Jan. 3, 2024 in The Lancet […]

An unexpected doorway into the ear opens new possibilities for hearing restoration

Written by | 5 Jul 2023

An international team of researchers has developed a new method to deliver drugs into the inner ear.  The discovery was possible by harnessing the natural flow of fluids […]

Hearings aids reduce risk of dementia

Written by | 14 Apr 2023

People with hearing loss who do not use hearing aids appear to be at a higher risk of developing dementia than people with hearing loss who use hearing […]

Research illuminates approaches for long-term hearing loss treatment

Written by | 12 Dec 2022

About 430 million people around the world experience disabling hearing loss. In the United States, approximately 37.5 million adults report some trouble hearing. Hearing loss can happen when any part of the […]

Wireless earphones work as inexpensive hearing aids

Written by | 18 Nov 2022

Some commercial earbuds can perform as well as hearing aids. The result, presented November 15 in the journal iScience, could help a large proportion of people with hearing loss […]

New tool to create hearing cells lost in aging

Written by | 8 May 2022

Hearing loss due to aging, noise and certain cancer therapy drugs and antibiotics has been irreversible because scientists have not been able to reprogram existing cells to develop […]

Machine learning improves human speech recognition

Written by | 6 Mar 2022

Hearing loss is a rapidly growing area of scientific research as the number of baby boomers dealing with hearing loss continues to increase as they age. To understand […]

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