By Robert Mario Diabetes may cause women to experience a greater degree of hearing loss as they age, especially if the metabolic disorder is not well controlled with medication, according to a new study from Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. Women between the ages of 60 and 75 with well-controlled diabetes had better hearing than [...]
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Diabetic Women Subject to Greater Hearing Loss
Posted on 03 May 2012.
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Tinnitus Retraining Therapy, Part 2
Posted on 24 February 2012.
By Robert Mario There is no cure for tinnitus, but for many sufferers there is a treatment approach. The work of Dr. Jastreboff, of Emory University, has lead to the conclusion that by retraining the brain to habituate, or ignore certain noises, patients could eventually be free from the annoying symptoms. The method of treatment [...]
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Help is available for tinnitus sufferers, part 1
Posted on 27 December 2011.
By Robert Mario Suffering from a “ringing in the ears” sounds benign enough on the scale of medical problems, but tinnitus and related hearing disorders that affect millions of Americans can become so severe that they lead to decreased life quality, anxiety, panic, depression and social isolation. Ringing in the ears, or tinnitus, is a [...]
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Hearing loss in middle age is preventable
Posted on 26 October 2011.
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health researchers found that hearing loss in middle-aged adults is associated with being male, having a noisy job and having certain cardiovascular disease risk factors. Scott D. Nash, a researcher with the Department of Population Health Sciences at the School of Medicine and Public Health, found that one of [...]
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Helping deaf people to enjoy music again
Posted on 30 September 2011.
Researchers from the University of Southampton are investigating how to help deaf people, who have received a cochlear implant, to get more enjoyment from music. Music professor David Nicholls and Dr Rachel van Besouw from the University’s Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR) have secured a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council [...]
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Listening to ourselves speak: We have volume settings
Posted on 24 May 2011.
By Dr. Robert Mario Like the mute button on the TV remote control, our brains filter out unwanted noise so we can focus on what we’re listening to. But when it comes to our own speech, a new brain study from the University of California, Berkeley shows that instead of one mute button, we have [...]
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