Health
Discussing hearing problems in veterans
Veterans often suffer brain injuries that impair hearing. As part of Deaf Awareness Week, Caroline Brogan spoke to an expert on the subject.
May 17, 2018
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Hearing Loss
Health
Healthy diet may lower risk of hearing loss in women
Hearing loss affects approximately 48 million Americans. Some evidence suggests that diet may influence risk of hearing loss. Previous studies have looked at how specific nutrients affect risk, but the relation of overall ...
May 11, 2018
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Pediatrics
Many parents miss speech disorders in young kids
(HealthDay)—Many parents don't recognize the signs of speech and language problems in children, or don't know that early treatment is important, a new survey finds.
May 9, 2018
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Pediatrics
Remote microphone system helps increase vocabulary of children with hearing loss
Children with hearing loss who use remote microphone systems (RMS) at home have access to about 42 percent more words each day, providing a critical boost to vocabulary and language learning, a Vanderbilt study has found.
Apr 30, 2018
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Health
Hearing screening for public safety professionals—new method for 'fitness for duty' assessments
Hearing is an important part of fitness-for-duty assessments of police officers and other public safety professionals - but standard hearing tests don't give a true picture of whether these professionals can hear and communicate ...
Apr 27, 2018
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Health
Hearing aids linked to fewer hospital and ER visits by older adults
They cost thousands of dollars, and insurance almost never covers them. But hearing aids may hold the potential to cut older adults' visits to the hospital or emergency room, according to a new study.
Apr 26, 2018
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Health
Drinking may worsen hearing loss at loud concerts
(HealthDay)—High-decibel music blasting at big concert venues is a known cause of short-term hearing loss. But new research suggests drinking doesn't help matters, with drunk concertgoers actually moving closer to loudspeakers.
Apr 19, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Ear infections can lead to meningitis, brain abscess and other neurological complications
While antibiotics have greatly reduced the dangers of ear infections, serious neurological complications, including hearing loss, facial paralysis, meningitis and brain abscess still occur, according to a report in the journal ...
Apr 16, 2018
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Health
Children with hearing loss face more bullying
New UT Dallas research indicates that children and adolescents with hearing loss experience higher rates of peer victimization, or bullying, than children with typical hearing.
Apr 16, 2018
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Neuroscience
Reorganization of brain outputs in deaf cats
Cats deaf from an early age have increased outgoing connections from the auditory cortex to a midbrain region responsible for directing the animal to a particular location in its environment. The study, published in JNeurosci, ...
Apr 2, 2018
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