Hearing Loss

I’ve been talking for years about the dangerous listening habits of young adults and teens and about the damage they are doing to their hearing. This results in increased risk of Alzheimers for the young. And, it’s not just me: the World Health Organization (WHO) has recently put out an alert warning about the dangers…

The major task of the ear is to detect, transmit and transduce sound (such as changing it from a mechanical vibration to a neural impulse.) The inner ear also assists in maintaining our sense of balance and motion. The best way to describe the functioning of the ear is to describe the path which the…

The Pew Research Center found that as of early 2015 the labor force was made up of about 45 million boomers between the ages of 51 and 70. And the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that by 2022 about one third of those aged between 65 and 74 will still be part of the workforce.…

Contributed by Lisa Packer , staff writer for Healthy Hearing | Thursday, June 18th, 2015 When we think of the word “reorganization”, we don’t usually associate it with the brain; but now a new study indicates that is exactly what happens when we start to lose our hearing. The good news is that this new…

Hearing loss is more common than ever before. About 16% of American adults have an impaired ability to hear speech, and more than 30% of Americans over age 20 — an estimated 55 million people — have lost some high-frequency hearing, according to a new study published Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine. The…