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- Age-Related Hearing Loss – A Common Crisis
Getting old means having to face a number of age-related diseases, the most common being the loss of hearing. Age-related hearing loss is caused by many factors, among which old-age itself works as the greatest catalyst. As the elderly start losing their ability to hear, their frustration increases along with their helplessness. It has been seen a proper balanced diet and nutrition has not been able to completely prevent loss of hearing, though it can delay it. Age-related hearing losses have always been a common age-related crisis.
Author: - Date: May 9, 2005
- Preventing Hearing Loss – Increase Your Nutritional Status
As you start growing old you face all kind of diseases related to your heart, lungs, brains, bones. The loss of hearing ia also one of the age-related diseases faced, mainly by women as they reach the other side of sixty. Hearing loss can be caused by lack of proper nutrition and preventing hearing loss could be as easy as getting the proper vitamins and minerals. This can not only decrease the loss of hearing, but will give your body the needed supplements to stay active and healthy.
Author: William Pensworth - Date: May 11, 2005
- Hearing Loss Diseases – Two Major Types
It is important to differentiate between the two main types of hearing loss diseases. The first kind of hearing loss is otosclerosis, a form of conductive hearing loss that usually begins in young adulthood and progressively becomes more acute. Otosclerosis is fairly common. While about 1% of Americans have been diagnosed with this disease, as many as 10% of the total population may be affected by hearing losses to some extent.
Author: William Pensworth - Date: May 15, 2005
- Single-Side Hearing Loss – Affecting A Surprising Amount Of People
Single-side hearing loss may be the result, symptom or side effect of one of a number of different conditions. Sudden deafness is the most common condition resulting in single-side hearing loss, but many cases of hearing loss on one side are not referred to an ENT specialist and followed up by adequate investigation and testing. Acoustic neuroma is another, much less frequent, condition that leads to Single Side Deafness (SSD).
Author: William Pensworth - Date: May 16, 2005
- Sudden Hearing Loss – New Treatments For An Old Problem
Acoustic neuroma is a benign neoplasm or non-cancerous growth on the auditory nerve near the inner ear. One of the chief complaints of patients with an acoustic neuroma is progressive hearing loss; one in ten acoustic neuroma patients can have abrupt or sudden hearing loss (SHL). Sudden hearing losses are characterized by rapid onset of sensorineural failures, resulting in the inability to hear.
Author: William Pensworth - Date: May 23, 2005
- Hearing Aid Implants – The New Generation Is Here
A new generation of hearing aid implants has been developed at the University of Michigan Health System as an alternative to cochlear implantation. While the cochlear hearing aid implant is for patients whose hearing nerve is still intact, this new listening device, called the ‘bionic ear,’ is an implant technique available even to those whose main hearing nerve is damaged. The auditory brain implant or ABI gives those who have completely lost their hearing a chance to hear again. In this implantation technique, an electrode array is planted on to the brain surface directly over the hearing nerve, creating a new brain stem-based connection. The implant devices placed on the brain surface are connected to another implant of electrodes in the skin behind the ear with an antenna for communicating to the external microphone and batteries. After the team of surgeons completes the implant surgery, they stimulate the device and electronically trace the auditory response of the brain stem to determine whether the patient is able to hear sound. The brain implant is moved around till the location giving best hearing is determined. The device is then packed in place and the wound closed. About 80 per cent of patients with ABI hear sound that makes them aware of their surroundings and makes their lip reading better. These brain implant hearing aids mark the beginning of neural prostheses which, with ever increasing improvements in computer technology, may eventually lead to step by step restoration of damaged parts of the nervous systems.
Author: William Pensworth - Date: May 25, 2005
- Ear Reconstruction Surgeries – A Marvel Of Science
Extensive ear reconstruction surgeries are the only way to treat a congenital birth defect in which the child is born with no ear at all or only with small flaps of skin on both sides of the head where the ear should have been. This rare condition occurring only in about one out of 60,000 to 100,000 births is called bilateral microtia.
Author: William Pensworth - Date: July 17, 2005
- Genetic Hearing Loss – The Suspect Gene
Research by an international team of scientists at the University of Michigan Medical School, the University of Antwerp and Rockefeller University into genes and genetic hearing loss has led to identification of a gene that causes low frequency sensorineural hearing loss.
Author: William Pensworth - Date: May 19, 2005
- Hearing Exams Access – What Could It Do To Your Community?
The Canadian Hearing Society expressed its concern over the Ontario government’s decision to de-list and restrict access to key audiological services like hearing screenings. Hard of hearing Ontarians will sadly bear the brunt of financial, health and social consequences if hearing exams access is reduced and made to be less accessible.
Author: William Pensworth - Date: August 21, 2005
- Infant hearing tests – Critical Testing for Potential Hearing Problems
Hearing loss, the most common disorder in infants, is an invisible condition often not suspected and diagnosed until a child fails to develop speech at the approximate age of two. Hearing loss can be imperceptible and sometimes not noticed by the family as even though a baby responds to some sounds, he may not hear well. Infant hearing tests conducted by audiologists readily detects any amount of hearing loss. The infant hearing test is crucial to providing children with the future they deserve.
Author: William Pensworth - Date: August 24, 2005
- Hearing Loss Treatments - Stem Cell And Gene Therapy For Hearing Loss
Since the large majority of hearing loss is caused by damage to cochlear hair cells, one promising medical remedy that can at least partially restore hearing in some people with hearing loss is hair cell regeneration. A new way of using embryonic stem cells that causes inner ear hair cells to repair or replace themselves may lead the way to new drug and surgical cures and remedies in the sphere of hearing loss treatments.
Author: William Pensworth - Date: April 25, 2005
- Infant Hearing Loss – An Invisible Condition
Hearing loss is the most common disorder in babies at birth. Infant hearing loss is an "invisible" condition, often not suspected and diagnosed until a child fails to develop speech around the age of two. Michigan hospitals now have comprehensive screening programs to test the hearing of newborn babies before they go home. This enables countless infants to receive instant assistance, before hearing losses can affect their communication skills, learning, behavior and emotional development.
Author: William Pensworth - Date: June 8, 2005
- Hearing Loss Symptoms - Warning Signs of hearing loss
Hearing loss symptoms can be gradual and emerge slowly, or they can be significant and come on suddenly. Either way, there are common indications and symptoms which suggest loss of hearing in an individual. Warning signs of hearing loss should not be ignored. Audiologists estimate that one out of ten Americans has a hearing impairment, and by the age of 65, one out of three people will lose the ability to hear completely.
Author: William Pensworth - Date: August 10, 2005
- Hearing Aid Implant – New Cochlear Implant Technology
For the past seven years, Arthur Gardner, 56 of Danville, CA, has had a very difficult time hearing. However, thanks to a new category of cochlear implants, Arthur is welcoming the prospect of significantly improved hearing in the New Year.
Author: Robbie Grossman - Date: May 13, 2004
- Newborn Hearing Exam – Early Detection Of Silent Epidemic
Today the World Council on Hearing Health in partnership with the American Academy of Pediatrics and the National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management released the results of its' Annual Hearing Healthy Kids State Report Card on Infant Hearing Screenings, citing a 64.8 percent increase in newborn hearing screenings in the past five years.
Author: Robbie Grossman - Date: May 13, 2004
- Tinnitus Hearing Disorder – Biotechnology
Pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries could be missing out on $billions annually by ignoring the immense potential market for therapies targeting hearing loss and tinnitus.
Author: Terrence Benson - Date: May 13, 2004
- Hearing Health Science – The Silent Disease
Movie posters, scripts, photos, books and other Hollywood collectibles and memorabilia signed by stars Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, George Clooney, Winona Ryder and more will be available on EBAY as part of the Hollywood Auction for Hearing Health for the House Ear Institute.
Author: Wolfgang Kohl - Date: May 13, 2004
- Mobile Hearing Test – New Equipment Expands Mobile Audiology
The addition of an automatic audiometer has lead to better patient care and new opportunities for Marshfield Clinic’s Mobile Audiology Services.
Author: Terrence Benson - Date: May 13, 2004
- Work Noise Hazard – Noise Awareness Day
April 28, 2004 is International Noise Awareness Day. Sponsored each year by the Noise Center of the League for the Hard of Hearing, its aim is to raise the public’s consciousness about how noise – including everyday sounds – can affect one’s quality of life, hearing, and overall health.
Author: Lucas Simpson - Date: May 12, 2004
- Deaf-Blind Cochlear Implant – Help For The Deaf-Blind Patients
People who have lost both their vision and their hearing face a daunting challenge in our world of communication based on sight and sound. Without the ability to use visual or aural clues to help them comprehend text, images, or speech, they have few options.
Author: Nick Town - Date: December 31, 2003
- Hearing Loss Technology – Enable Speech-Based Accessibility Solutions
ScanSoft, Inc. the leading provider of speech and imaging solutions, today announced that it has teamed with leading assistive technology companies to provide a range of solutions based on speech recognition and text-to-speech. This announcement coincides with ScanSoft's presence at Innovations in Assistive Technology, an event on Capitol Hill sponsored by Microsoft and Easter Seals, which will be attended by celebrities and political figures such as actress Marlee Matlin and Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) and is designed to showcase advances in assistive technology.
Author: Nick Town - Date: December 31, 2003
- Children's Cochlear Implant – Big Language Boost
The younger deaf and hearing-impaired children are when a cochlear implant awakens their hearing, the better they will do on speech recognition tests later in life, according to the new results of the largest and most carefully designed study of its kind.
Author: Nick Town - Date: December 30, 2003
- Hearing Loss Gene – Research Shows A Hearing Loss Gene
In a powerful demonstration of how animal research can help humans, a pair of scientific teams is reporting the discovery of defects in a deafness gene in mice that led to the identification of similar genetic defects in people with hearing loss.
Author: Nick Town - Date: December 30, 2003
- Single-Side Hearing Loss – Bone Anchored Hearing Device
Last summer, Entific Medical Systems completed the second stage of UK research to establish the problems experienced by people with single sided or unilateral deafness. As part of this research they assessed the benefits of the BAHA® device (a bone anchored hearing device) to people with Single Sided Deafness as a result of acoustic neuroma.
Author: Jen Bead - Date: December 30, 2003
- Hearing Aid Implant – Christine's Story
Christine Warner had never heard the sound of her youngest granddaughter's laugh. Fifteen-month-old Michelle was born around the time her grandmother lost her hearing due to a rare condition, known as neurofibromatosis type II. This hereditary disorder causes non-cancerous tumors to grow on the hearing and balance nerves.
Author: Nick Town - Date: December 30, 2003
- Genetic Hearing Loss – New Gene Understanding Inner Ear
An international research team, led by University of Michigan Medical School scientists Marci Lesperance, M.D., and Margit Burmeister, Ph.D., has identified a gene responsible for an unusual type of hearing loss called low frequency sensorineural hearing loss.
Author: Nick Town - Date: December 30, 2003
- Children's Hearing Test – Have Children's Hearing Tested
Having your child's hearing checked is important at any age. A baby, whose hearing is all right at birth, can develop hearing problems as he or she grows up. This may cause problems with language or schoolwork.
Author: Jen Bead - Date: December 30, 2003
- Infant Hearing Losses – Improving Odds Of Early Diagnosis
As of this year, 101 Michigan hospitals have programs to test the hearing of newborn babies before they go home. These efforts have gotten countless children needed help, before hearing loss hinders their ability to learn and develop speech and language skills.
Author: Trent Offer - Date: December 30, 2003
- Age-Related Hearing Losses – Mice Lead To Hearing Loss Gene
A team of scientists from the University of Cincinnati, the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine and Northern Illinois University have mapped the first gene known to cause age-related hearing loss in mice.
Author: Jen Bead - Date: December 30, 2003
- Prevent Hearing Loss – Age Related Loss Related To Nutitional Status
Research shows that age-related hearing loss may be related to nutritional status. A recent assessment of 55 women between 60 and 71 years of age found that women with impaired hearing had lower blood levels of vitamin B-12 and folate than women with normal hearing. This study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, is the first to link vitamin status to hearing loss.
Author: Nick Town - Date: December 30, 2003
- Infant Hearing Test – Infants Receive Critical Tests
Hazel Goodwin, M.D., Medical Director of The Brookdale University Hospital & Medical Center's Bruner Developmental Disabilities Center, has been working with colleagues in Brooklyn and officials in the City of New York's Early Intervention Office on a project designed to ensure that infants receive critical testing for potential hearing problems.
Author: Jen Bead - Date: December 29, 2003
- Newborn Hearing Test – All Newborns Tested For Hearing Impairments
All newborn infants are now tested at Phelps Memorial Health Center for hearing impairments prior to leaving the hospital. Studies prove that early detection of hearing loss and early treatment can greatly improve a child’s language, communication, and educational development.
Author: NickTown - Date: December 29, 2003
- Newborn Hearing Screening – Screenings Now Mandatory
At first, the couple was devastated. They have no significant health problems, and their daughter has normal hearing. However, when their newborn son was administered a hearing screening before he left Methodist Children's Hospital of South Texas, profound hearing loss was found. Now the parents realize how fortunate they are that the hearing loss was detected. Because of early detection, their child is receiving help. If hearing impaired children are not identified early, it is difficult, if not impossible, for many of them to acquire the fundamental language, social and cognitive skills that provide the foundation for later successes in school and society. In fact, when children are screened in the nursery at Methodist Children's Hospital of South Texas, those who do not pass the screening are brought back to the hospital for further tests within two weeks. Unless hearing problems are addressed within six months, the children may never be able to catch up. Universal newborn hearing screenings are now mandatory at birthing units delivering over 1,000 babies a year.
Author: NIck Town - Date: December 29, 2003
- Audiology Device – Perform Comprehensive Examinations
Interacoustics is pleased to announce the introduction of the OtoRead handheld Otoacoustic Emission test device. The OtoRead is a very small, ergonomic and lightweight instrument that can be used to perform basic OAE screening or more comprehensive examinations.
Author: Trent Offer - Date: December 23, 2003
- Infant Hearing Screening – Infant Hearing Tests Become Priority
Every baby born at University Medical Center is tested for hearing disorders prior to discharge. Now that vital procedure will occur even more rapidly, offering physicians a greater chance to identify a potential problem. UMC is graduating it's second group of Certified Nursing Assistants who will be qualified to give the test. With more than 5,000 babies born every year at UMC, the increase in qualified staff able to administer the hearing test will allow for greater patient convenience and faster discharge from the hospital. Hearing loss is the nation's number one birth defect. UMC has the only hospital-based, full-time audiology program in Southern Nevada.
Author: Trent Offer - Date: December 23, 2003
- Newborn Screening Program – Jonathan's Story
Jonathan was 20 months old when he discovered the power of words. His parents remember the light in the little boy's eyes when he realized that the hand signs for "Mommy," "Daddy" and "juice" signified real people and real objects. "All of a sudden he could communicate with us, and we could understand what he wanted," recalls his father, Danny Manalang.
Author: Trent Offer - Date: December 23, 2003
- Signs Of Hearing Loss – Painless And Gradual Signs Of Hearing Loss
If you notice yourself or your parents, spouse or other older loved one often asking others to repeat themselves, have the television volume set high, or have difficulty hearing people on the telephone, it is likely that a hearing test is needed.
Author: Jen Bead - Date: June 5, 2005
- Children's Hearing Aid – Bone Anchored Hearing Aids
A revolutionary hearing aid is transforming the lives of deaf children in the UK. The fitting of bone anchored hearing aids is still in its infancy, but The National Deaf Children’s Society believes it will become more common and has published good practice guidelines to ensure all deaf children that can benefit from a BAHA receive the best service possible.
Author: Trent Offer - Date: August 3, 2005
- Hearing Loss Treatments – Deterioration Of Hair Cells Stem Hearing Loss
A new way of using embryonic stem cells to grow hair cells that populate the inner ear may lead the way to new drug and surgical methods to treat progressive hearing loss, researchers report.
Author: Trent Offer - Date: October 9, 2005
- Sudden Hearing Losses – Acoustic NeuromasCause Sudden Hearing Loss
Acoustic neuromas or schwannoma are benign neoplasms of the intracranial segment of the eighth cranial nerve, producing cerebellar, lower cranial nerve, and brainstem signs and symptoms. One of the chief complaints of patients with an acoustic neuroma is progressive hearing loss. However, one in ten acoustic neuroma patients have sudden hearing loss (SHL) as their presenting complaint. The prevalence of such a neoplasm in all patients with SHL screened with auditory brain stem response (ABR) or MRI is thought to be about 2.5 percent.
Author: Nick Town - Date: December 22, 2003
- Infant Ear Problem – Infants Are Affected
A baby wearing hearing aids? A toddler with a bionic ear implant?
Author: Nick Town - Date: December 22, 2003
- Hearing Loss Consequences – Physical Problems
Untreated hearing loss often results in certain physical problems. In general, hearing-impaired people who suffer from untreated hearing loss express less physical well-being than people with normal hearing and hard-of-hearing people who use hearing aids. Some of the consequences include: - Tiredness or exhaustion
- Headache
- Tense muscles
- Stress
- Problems with sports
- Eating and/or sleeping problems
- Stomach problems
- Increased blood pressure
- Sexual problems
Author: Trent Offer - Date: December 22, 2003
- Online Hearing Test – Prestigious Test Goes Online
As record numbers of Americans are facing their retirement years, hearing loss is becoming a greater concern. From a lifetime of noise exposure and lifestyle risks, to the effects of the aging process, experts say that people have reason to be concerned. While hearing tests have traditionally taken place in an audiology clinic or physician’s office, a simplified version of the House Ear Institute’s HINT (hearing in noise test) – one of the most reputable tests for evaluating functional hearing ability As record numbers of Americans are facing their retirement years, hearing loss is becoming a greater concern. From a lifetime of noise exposure and lifestyle risks, to the effects of the aging process, experts say that people have reason to be concerned. While hearing tests have traditionally taken place in an audiology clinic or physician's office, a simplified version of the House Ear Institute's HINT (hearing in noise test) - one of the most reputable tests for evaluating functional hearing ability in noisy conditions - is now accessible online at HealthyConnections.com and HEI.org.
Author: Nick Town - Date: December 22, 2003
- Cochlear Implant Surgeries – Designed To Restore Partial Hearing
Device offers hope to young deaf and hearing impaired patients.
Author: Jen Bead - Date: December 22, 2003
- Hearing Loss Indicator – Your Child Can't Hear The Loudest Key
Does your child constantly seem to be ignoring you when you call his/her name? Ever considered that he/she may be having difficulty hearing you call and displaying the first warning signs of possible hearing loss? With today's youth engaging in highly magnified noise levels generated from loud stereos, headphones or long conversations using a telephone or "hands-free" device close to the ear, usually set to the loudest level, your child could be damaging his/her hearing at an early age. Noise-related hearing loss is the second most common form of acquired deafness, after aging, and while hearing loss can occur at any age - early detection is the loudest key!
Author: Jen Bead - Date: December 22, 2003
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