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Henry Ford Hospital conducts study involving what effects right and left brain have on how people hear and their cell phone preferences.

Researchers at the University of Minnesota Medical School have gained insight into how different types of age related hearing loss may occur in humans. The discovery could eventually help physicians develop drugs to combat progressive hearing loss.

Playing white noise in class can help inattentive children learn. Researchers tested a group of 51 schoolchildren and found white noise hindered the ability of children who normally pay attention but improved the memory of children who have difficulties in paying attention.

New research shows that a healthy cardiovascular system boosts our hearing over time, particularly among older adults. The study also shows that cardiovascular fitness can protect our hearing by having a beneficial effect on the vascular pattern of the cochlea and, consequently, on hearing loss prevention.

Today, those who experience severe conductive and mixed hearing loss have new treatment option. In August, 2009, hearing aid manufacturer, Oticon, received FDA approval to begin...

A serendipitous discovery of deaf zebra fish larvae has helped narrow down the function of an elusive protein necessary for hearing and balance. The work, led by Rockefeller...

More than half of babies born in rich nations today will live to 100 years if current life expectancy trends continue. And we are not only living longer than before, but those...

Chicago Although children with special health care needs comprised less than 16 percent of the child population, they had health care expenditures three times higher than ch...

Chicago - Current practice guidelines that recommend against routine annual physicals for adults without specific symptoms of illness may not be widely accepted by primary care...

Chicago - Home videos of first and second year birthday parties provide support for parents' reports of children whose behavior seemed normal when they were one-year-olds but...

Chicago - Although the quality of outpatient care in the United States has improved over the last decade, greater use of evidence-based medicine is needed, however, and quality...

Chicago - A simple information and communication intervention between a patient and physician can increase hospice referral rates among nursing home residents, increase their...

Chicago Adults who report having had higher exposure to infant siblings during their first 6 years of life have a reduced risk of multiple sclerosis (MS), according to a in...

CHICAGO - Migraine patients who received true acupuncture had no decrease in headaches as compared with those who received sham acupuncture treatment, according to a study in the...

Chicago The risk of having a heart attack is elevated in the weeks after stopping use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, according to an article in the December issue The...

Chicago A review of the published literature and of internal company documents from the manufacturer of cerivastatin, a cholesterol lowering drug removed from the market 2001,...

Chicago Women aged 70 years and older who participated in higher levels of physical activity scored better on cognitive performance tests and showed less cognitive decline wo...

Chicago Computer-based standing orders are more effective than computerized reminders to physicians in increasing influenza and pneumococcal vaccine administration hospitalize...

View Handbook Flyer and Order Form (PDF)The National Aphasia Association (NAA) announces the publication of The Aphasia Handbook: A Guide for Stroke and Brain Injury Survivors...

Chicago Patients with chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS, inflammation of the nasal passages and sinuses) do not necessarily develop resistance to antibiotics although they may treate...

Chicago About one-third of chronically ill adults who underuse medications because of the costs associated with buying the drugs, never tell their health care accor...

Chicago The use of fluoxetine (an antidepressant) or comprehensive cognitive behavioral therapy (CCBT) were similarly effective for treating social phobia, while combining t...

Chicago Patients with deficit schizophrenia, a subtype of schizophrenia characterized by negative symptoms, such as blunted speech and expression, lack of emotional and...

on Child's Cognitive, Language, and Behavioral FunctioningChicago Children of mothers exposed to organic solvents during their pregnancies had lower scores on certain tests lan...

Chicago Individuals 70 to 90 years old who adhered to a Mediterranean-type diet and several healthy lifestyle habits had a more than 50 percent lower death rate than those did...