News tagged with acoustic trauma


Report: Strategies to prevent noise-induced hearing loss, tinnitus in soldiers

Antioxidants, dietary supplements and high-tech brain imaging are among some of the novel strategies that may help detect, treat and even prevent noise-induced hearing loss and tinnitus among American troops, according to ...

Health created Sep 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Can you hear me now? New strategy discovered to prevent hearing loss

If you're concerned about losing your hearing because of noise exposure (earbud deafness syndrome), a new discovery published online in the FASEB Journal offers some hope. That's because scientists from Germany and Canada ...

Medical research created Jul 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Growth hormone helps repair the zebrafish ear

Loud noise, especially repeated loud noise, is known to cause irreversible damage to the hair cells inside the cochlea and eventually lead to deafness. In mammals this is irreversible, however both birds and fish are able ...

Neuroscience created Sep 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0