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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…

Chicago Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), physicians can identify soft-tissue defects that contribute to hearing loss in children, according to a report in the September…

Seven million children in the United States between the ages of six and nineteen are hearing impaired, and research has shown that these children are much more likely to have…

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…

Chicago, IL Despite previous inconclusive research, geriatric patients do experience significant quality of life improvement (QOL) after receiving cochlear implants for lo…

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…

Tampa, Fla. (Sep. 3rd, 2008) According to an Italian research team publishing their findings in the current issue of Cell Transplantation (17:6), hearing loss due to dama…

Chicago Prosthetic ears appear to improve hearing and speech recognition in noisy environments, according to a report in the September/October issue of Archives of Facial Plastic…

There is one bright spot in the economy, especially for people who experience hearing loss. The annual Hearing Journal/Audiology Online survey of hearing aid dispensers,...

Naerum, DK, September 16 – Ida Institute announced today that Sharmi Albrechtsen has joined the non-profit educational institute as a communications specialist. Albrechtsens resp…

(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…

Successful production of functional sensory hair cells in the inner ears of mice suggests that a new therapy to regain hearing may be possibleAugust 27, 2008 – Portland, Ore…

Exploring the various performance times needed to pick out specific sounds in a complex scene(Boston) – Call it the cocktail party effect: how an individual can participate in a…