Woman & Home Feel Good You

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Only around 40% of people who need hearing aids have them, yet the brains of those who do wear them for age-related hearing loss perform as if they are eight years younger. Audiologist and MD of Aston Hearing Duncan Collet-Fenson shares his tips for

Futurity

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Common hearing tests may not detect subtle kinds of hearing loss, particularly those that make hearing in noisy rooms or loud crowds difficult. This type of “hidden hearing loss” paradoxically presents itself as essentially normal hearing in the clin

New Idea

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Four-year-old Arlo Gleeson is thriving after receiving the precious gift of sound through a cochlear implant in her right ear. Born with bilateral sensory neural hearing loss, Arlo was first fitted with hearing aids at just 3 months old. But the tod

BBC Science Focus Magazine

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A new hearing aid that costs less than £1 to make has been developed by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Even in the UK, around 11 million people are living with hearing loss, of whom 8 million are aged 60 or older. A hearing aid c

Popular Science

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Tucked inside the air traffic control tower in Portland, Maine, Samantha Bassett was busy making sure planes didn’t crash into each other. All systems seemed normal that day in May 2014. Aircraft pinged their positions on radar while a constant and c

Woman's Own

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‘Having tinnitus can often feel relentless. Mine sounds like a constant high-pitched buzzing, in both ears, which occasionally turns into a high-frequency ringing. I also experience a whooshing noise, usually at night. My tinnitus started suddenly. A

Chat

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Carly Sygrove, 38 Sitting at my desk, my head shot up from my books as one of my students blew a raspberry. ‘Who was that?’ I asked, unable to tell where the sound had come from. It was 2017 and I couldn’t help but feel embarrassed my hearing had let

Pick Me Up

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Chucking down my backpack, I breathed in the warm humid air and took a seat on the cool ground next to my girlfriend. ‘Gorgeous evening, isn’t it?’ I smiled, wrapping my arm around her shoulder as we listened to the sound of crickets in the distance.

NPR

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More than three-quarters of Americans older than 60 have some kind of hearing loss. But only a fraction use technology that would help them.

Literary Hub

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I first met Lara three weeks after the morning she awoke to the sounds of “whooshing and jingle bells.” For a couple of weeks she had been noticing these sounds intermittently, but by the time she walked into a tinnitus support group meeting in a sub

People Magazine South Africa

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MARISA SMIT cried tears of joy when she heard her own voice for the very first time. Born unable to hear anything under 140 decibels, Marisa was as profoundly deaf at the tender age of 14 months. Although she was fitted with hearing aids that did hel

Apple Magazine

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Matt Garlock has trouble making out what his friends say in loud bars, but when he got a hearing test, the result was normal. Recent research may have found an explanation for problems like his, something called “hidden hearing loss.” Scientists hav

Chat

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Sarah Richardson, 24, Nuneaton Stretching my arms over my head, I awoke to the familiar sounds of my grandparents’ house. They were pottering about while my mum Alison, then 49, chattered away happily. And in the background of it all, I could hear th

NPR

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About 35 million Americans suffer some hearing loss, but most don't do anything about it. There's a growing effort to make hearing aids easier and cheaper to buy.

Field & Stream

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Doctors love MDHearingAids® for the same reasons patients do. These FDA-registered, medical-grade hearing aids have the same high-tech features found in more expensive hearing aids at a fraction of the cost. “MDHearingAids are better than expensive c

Woman & Home Feel Good You

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Around one in six people in the UK is deaf or hard of hearing; the most common cause of hearing loss is ageing, but being exposed to loud noise is behind increasing numbers of young people losing their hearing. It’s easy not to notice at first – back

You South Africa

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If you’re worried about your hearing, get it checked. Your doctor will examine your ears and can treat conditions such as ear infections or a build-up of wax. You may be referred to an audiologist or ear, nose and throat specialist for expert help an

Futurity

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Using a hearing aid may delay cognitive decline, new research shows. Here, Julia Sarant, an associate professor in the audiology and speech pathology department in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne

Woman's Day Magazine NZ

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• They do not respond when called • They speak much louder than usual • They become withdrawn, quiet and isolated • They turn up the volume to hear the TV or listen to music • They feel people around them are mumbling • They have unclear speech • The

NZBusiness and Management

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Customers of Porana Carpet Overlocking on Auckland’s North Shore are in for a treat in May. It is New Zealand Sign Language Week early in the month and Porana Overlocking’s owner manager, Tim Lewin, plans to offer his customers free lessons in sign l

Futurity

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A protein implicated in human longevity may also play a role in restoring hearing after noise exposure, say researchers. Their findings could one day lead to new tools to prevent hearing loss. The study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, r

ArtAsiaPacific

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With “touching listening,” anthropologist Roshanak Kheshti describes sound as “experienced (felt) by the whole body intertwining what is heard by the ears with what is felt on the flesh, tasted on the tongue, and imagined in the psyche.” This form of

Futurity

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Brain inflammation may offer a new target for treating tinnitus, researchers report. More than 50 million Americans struggle with tinnitus, a constant ringing in the ears that ranges from mildly annoying to severely debilitating, and no cure exists.

TechLife News

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Matt Garlock has trouble making out what his friends say in loud bars, but when he got a hearing test, the result was normal. Recent research may have found an explanation for problems like his, something called “hidden hearing loss.” Scientists have

Futurity

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A device that uses a dollar’s worth of open-source parts and a 3D-printed case could help the hundreds of millions of older people worldwide who can’t afford existing hearing aids to address age-related hearing loss. Scientists designed the ultra-low

Traverse, Northern Michigan's Magazine

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There is some pretty fascinating research going on now in the world of hearing loss. Fill us in, please. Yes. A big area of research in our profession right now is comorbidities—the presence of two or more chronic diseases in a patient and how they a

Chat Passion

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Hearing loss is a fairly common condition, with 1 in 5 UK adults suffering from it. There are many different types of hearing loss, as one of many parts of the auditory system can be affected. Because each part of your auditory system performs a spec

Futurity

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As people with hearing loss work to improve their speech recognition, a familiar voice may work better than a generic one, research shows. Researcher Nancy Tye-Murray calls hearing loss “the invisible disability.” It can masquerade as other problems,

Woman's Day Magazine NZ

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Does your child appear to have selective hearing? Do they miss parts of the conversation or do you wonder if they’re ignoring you on purpose? Perhaps they have undetected hearing loss. The World Health Organization estimates that 1.1 billion young pe

NPR

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Researchers in Toronto are studying whether singing in a choir and practicing pitch can help hearing-impaired people function better in noisy environments.