News on Hearing Loss Causes

Los Angeles - January 16, 2006 - The House Ear Institute today announces the official launch of an aggressive consumer awareness campaign aimed at teens and young adults. camp...

Newswise New research suggests that years of repeated exposure to loud noise increases the risk of developing a non-cancerous tumor that could cause hearing loss.It matter...

OHSU study shows platinum-based ototoxicity in children prevalent, but new drugs offer prevention hope(December 8, 2005) Portland, Oregon - By 14, Peter Johnson had survived...

LOS ANGELES - John Tracy Clinic's Board of Directors announced today that Barbara F. Hecht, Ph.D., has been elected as the Clinic's next president, effective September 1, 2003. Th...

The December 1, 2005 issue of Rolling Stone featured an article titled Music Making Fans Deaf? - How the iPod generation may be losing its hearing without even knowing it. sto...

NIDCD-funded Reseachers to Lead a Multicenter Study October 5, 2005. The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), one of the National o...

Chicago - Children who are prone to frequent ear infections may have a high number of potentially infectious bacteria and a relatively low number of protective bacteria in their...

Warwick Williams, National Acoustic Laboratorieswww.nal.gov.auAnecdotally it had been frequently claimed that, young people in particular, were damaging their hearing by frequent...

On August 3rd, 2005, NBC Nightly News presented a segment on personal MP3 players and the dangers that exposure to loud music can cause to your hearing. The segment featured in...

Alexandria, VA Hearing loss in more than a million American children is undetected or untreated, according to the Better Hearing Institute (BHI). That can cause than academi...

Rockville, MD-December 8, 2004 As parents and family members begin shopping for toys to share with their children this holiday season, the American Speech-Language-Hearing...

Rockville, MD -November 10, 2004 - Noise-induced hearing loss among children is increasing and children are frequently exposed to excessive levels of sound. Listening to persona...

Scientists Address Possible New Approaches to Treating the Epidemic Problem of Otitis Media LOS ANGELES - July 20, 2004 - Research scientists in the House Ear Institute's...

CHICAGO The prevalence of diabetic retinopathy, a disorder of the retina that can cause blindness, associated with type 1 diabetes mellitus is estimated to affect one per adul...

Rochester, Minnesota. October, 2003 -- Hearing impairment is the third most common chronic condition in the United States. An estimated one-third of Americans older than age 65...

Etymotic releases: Link It. A guide to better hearing in noise. Click Here.Click here to visit the Etymotic Research website.

PHONAK releases e-version of their popular pamphlet "Hearing and Hearing Loss." Click Here.Click here to visit the Phonak website.

BERNAFON releases e-version of 'Hearing is a health, and a quality of life issue' Click Here.Click here to visit the Bernafon website.

Summer Sounds Can Rate High on Hazardous dB Scale ROCKVILLE, Md., April 2003 -- The American Speech-Language- Hearing Association (ASHA) is sending a nationwide wake-up call to...

- New Data Presented at Association for Research in Otolaryngology Meeting - SAN DIEGO /PRNewswire/ -- American BioHealth Group LLC (ABG), a privately held San Diego-based...

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Excessive noise, such as jet aircraft flying overhead, impairs children's reading ability and long-term memory, a Cornell University environmental psychologist...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - When a physician tries to determine whether or not a patient's cough or sore throat is caused by a bacterium or a virus, they're correct only 50% of...

NEW YORK (CNN) -- With the aid of a cochlear implant in his left ear, radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh announced Monday that he is able to hear his show again for the first...

LOS ANGELES/PRNewswire/ -- The following is being issued by the House Ear Clinic:CONSUMER WARNING:In a retrospective observation conducted at the House Ear Clinic (HEC) in Los...