News on Hearing Loss

The Laboratory of Applied Bioacoustics at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain, managed by researcher Michel Andre, has developed the first portable system in...

Gail Schwartzman had her hearing damaged when her four-year old daughter planted a harmless kiss on mom's ear. The Hicksville, Long Island resident reports it was not the...

You've heard of swimmer's ear and tennis elbow - how about ?golfer's hearing'?. A new study from England published in BMJ last month (BMJ 2008;337:a2835) investigated the...

In the United States alone, tens of millions of people of all ages suffer from hearing loss. There are several factors leading to hearing impairment. Age-related hearing loss...

According to an article published on AudiologyOnline, written by workplace noise expert Richard Neitzel, M.S., CIH, Research Scientist at the University of Washington,...

Los Angeles, CA - January 7, 2009 - The House Ear Institute (HEI) will provide free hearing screenings to attendees and exhibitors on the show floor of the 2009 NAMM...

The American Heart Association published a recap of an extensive study that establishes a relationship between sudden loss and stroke. This condition is marked, obviously, with...

A new study from the United Kingdom published online by the journal Archive of Disease in Childhood (Arch Dis Child. Published Online First: 17 November 2008....

Musicians Will Promote Safe Listening Of Personal Audio Technology To Young Children (Rockville, MD - November 18, 2008) - The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association...

Ann Arbor, Mich. - About 10 million people in the United States alone-from troops returning from war to students with music blasting through headphones-are suffering from...

The following is an abstract of a study published in the October edition of the journal Pediatrics (Vol. 122, No. 4, pp. e884 - e890). To obtain the full article or for a...

Listening to personal music players at a high volume over a sustained period can lead to permanent hearing damage, according to an opinion of the European Union Scientific...

Both adults and kids are certainly at risk of obesity. Check out these stats: 33% of U.S. adults are obese. That's one out of three. From 1960 through 2004, obesity increased...

The Royal National Institute for the Deaf (RNID), the prestigious UK advocacy group for the hard of hearing and deaf populations, released the results of a study funded by the...

Newswise - A new study of Colorado birth records shows that infants with low Apgar scores - the widely used measure of newborn health - are 10 times less likely to receive an...

Check out the growing popularity of hybrids in the face of growing gas prices:In 2008, Toyota will sell 280,000 hybrids alone. Honda hybrid light duty vehicles increased by 4%...

Los Angeles, CA October 7, 2008 During the three-day AES Convention, a record-breaking 674 people came to the House Ear Institutes booth to have their hearing This years...

A recently released study by doctors at John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore MD raises alarm on the prevalence of hearing loss, most especially among younger people.It is now...

Chicago, IL Patients seeking care for sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSHL) are receiving inconsistent care due to lack of established clinical practice guidelines, says re...

Los Angeles, CA October 3, 2008 House Ear Institute has created an innovative interactive online hearing conservation workshop. Designed for the general audio and the a...

If youre a professional musician and your hearing isnt perfect, it may have an impact on your career, unless you aspire to be the best garage band on your block. Then quality of...

Hearing loss currently affects more than 36 million Americans. Although hearing problems are commonly associated with the normal aging process, more than half of all...

(Rockville, MD September 9, 2008) The importance of young children learning at an early age about safe usage of personal audio devices is the focus of a new (www.asha.org/...

Scientists based in Switzerland and South Africa have created a biophysical methodology that may help to overcome hearing deficits, and potentially remedy even substantial...

Evanston - Listening might seem like a passive activity, not a skill. You have ears, therefore, you listen. But it's not that simple t any age. A middle-aged woman may start no...