According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), tobacco use is the single most significant preventable cause of death and disease in the US, responsible for the demise of over 480,000 Americans every year. The research shaking its finger at Uncle Bob puffing on his pipe is not
Read more →Sensorineural hearing loss affects millions of Americans every year. Although the greatest likelihood of hearing difficulties is found in the elderly, affecting 50% of those 75 and older, around three children out of every thousand are born with a noticeable degree of hearing loss in one or both ears. That
Read more →Cannabis has been a hot topic in the medical world for a little while. Though the recreational smoking of marijuana has been popular across the US since the early 1900s, it was not until the 1990s that the medicinal benefits of cannabis compounds became more widely recognized. In 1996, California
Read more →Imagine waking up one morning and feeling like the speakers have been switched off on one side of the house. In some cases, the entire sound system fails, with sounds through both sides reduced to a muffled mumble. Sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSHL) can be an alarming event- one moment
Read more →You may have been told as a child that we have two ears and one mouth because we’re supposed to listen twice as much as we talk – there may be a ring of truth to this but there is a lot more to binaural hearing (that is, hearing with
Read more →Little ears are particularly vulnerable to damage from excessive noise. Due to a narrower ear canal, sounds are amplified further for children, making a loud noise even louder. The risk of noise-induced hearing loss posed to young children is further increased as they are less able to identify a painfully
Read more →Hearing loss currently has no cure and is managed mainly with the use of hearing aids or cochlear implants. Depending on the level and nature of hearing loss, the benefit of hearing aids may range from significantly life-changing to a useless, inconvenient bit of plastic in your ear. Cochlear implants
Read more →” Is that your phone buzzing?” ” I don’t hear any buzzing…” Have you ever heard a phantom clicking, ringing, or buzzing in your ears that no one else seems to be able to hear? You may be experiencing tinnitus. Perhaps you are also hallucinating and delusional but for the
Read more →When you’re first prescribed medications to lower your risk of cardiovascular disease or to treat a life-threatening bacterial infection, hearing loss is probably the last thing to concern you. Ototoxicity is the word used to describe damaging effects to the ear and hearing, typically from the use of certain medications
Read more →June is Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month. Approximately 50 million people around the world live with some type of dementia, the most well-known of these being Alzheimer’s disease. Specific to the USA, 5.8 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s. Over the next decade, the prevalence of dementia worldwide is predicted
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