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Oct
Hearing Aids vs. Personal Sound Amplifiers
While hearing aids and personal sound amplifiers can both help people to hear sounds more clearly, they are not the same things. Personal sound amplifiers are often advertised on TV for people who wish to hear a television show at night without disturbing someone who’s sleeping...
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Oct
New Phone-based Hearing Test
Many people wait until hearing problems become unbearable before going to get a screening. As many as 36 million Americans have some kind of hearing difficulty, but around half of those people have never had a hearing test. Two universities and a small Indiana-based company are a...
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Oct
The Trouble with Mouth Breathing
Especially for young children, mouth breathing and snoring can be warning signs of an underlying condition. Over time, children who consistently breath through their mouths may suffer from poor mouth and facial development, including elongated face, crooked teeth, even gingivitis...
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Oct
School-Administered Hearing Tests May Not Detect All Hearing Loss
Recent research from the Penn State College of Medicine showed that school-administered hearing tests do not detect noise-induced hearing loss. Many states mandate hearing tests for children throughout their years in school. These screenings primarily focus on low-frequency ...
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Oct
Sleep Apnea Can Act Like Dementia
Especially in the elderly, obstructive sleep apnea can sometimes masquerade as dementia. When a person has difficulty concentrating, focusing, and/or staying awake during the day, it can easily be interpreted as early signs of dementia. Since many elderly individuals live alone...
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Oct
Adult-Onset Allergies
If you didn’t grow up with the annual itchy eyes, scratchy throat, and headache, consider yourself lucky. You may not be totally off the hook, though. About half of all new allergies occur to adults in their early 40s. The most common adult-onset allergies include mold, pollen, a...
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Oct
Listen up! How Ears Tune In to Certain Sounds
You’ve probably experienced the ability to focus on a friend’s spoken words while in the middle of a crowded, noisy room. The ear is able to tune in on certain sounds primarily with two elements, we’ll think of them as the volume knob and antenna. Similar to a radio, the volume k...
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Oct
E-Cigarettes, Vaping, and Your Throat
Many people who make the switch from tobacco cigarettes to e-cigarettes experience dryness or irritation in the throat after vaping. People who experience the soreness report that it isn’t very painful and typically goes away after having a drink or coughing for a few seconds. Th...
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Oct
Baby Sound Machines May Cause Hearing Loss
Sound machines are placed on infants’ cribs to lull them to sleep. With music, white noise, and soothing sounds such as rain and heartbeat, sound machines are some parents’ solution to a good nights’ sleep for baby and for themselves. There are dangers involved with sound machine...
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Oct
Allergy Forecast for Spring
For those who have had a very rough winter this year, the end of the bitter cold may be in sight. The bad news is, a harsh winter with a sudden upswing of spring temperatures can spell an intense allergy season. Pollinating plants have been under snow for many months now. Sudden s...
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Oct
Anti-Histamine Eye Drops for Red, Bloodshot Eyes
With spring right around the corner, many people’s allergies begin to flare up. That can mean dry, itchy eyes that quickly become red and bloodshot. Anti-histamine eye drops are often prescribed or recommended to relieve the symptoms that allergies produce. There are two main typ...
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Oct
Study Proposes Noise-Induced Hearing Loss More Likely at Night
A new study published by Swedish researchers in Current Biology in February 2014 suggests that noise-induced hearing loss may be worse depending upon the time of day that it occurs. The cochlea, a part of the inner ear, possesses its own circadian clock. That clock is more sensit...
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