Hearing loss is a rapidly growing area of scientific research as the number of baby boomers dealing with hearing loss continues to increase as they age. To understand how hearing loss impacts people, ...

Ishikawa, Japan-- Bone-conduction (BC) headphones enhance hearing capability by generating vibrations in bone or skin close to the ear, including the regio temporalis. They simultaneously leave the ...

Difficulty distinguishing spoken words from background noise, called speech-in-noise hearing impairment, was associated with increased risk for Parkinson's disease (PD), with a 57% elevation in risk ...

An impressively large study following more than 80,000 people for 11 years has found that difficulty hearing speech in noisy environments can be an early-warning sign of later-life dementia. The next ...

What would be your best estimate of the number of people in the United States with significant hearing loss? You may be as surprised as I was to learn the answer: about 73 million, or approximately 1 ...

Sufficiently intense sounds have the potential of disrupting all parts of the peripheral and central auditory system. Noise can have direct mechanical effects on the middle ear, such as ossicular and ...

Mumbai, Feb 21: A new mobile application has been developed to empower the speech and hearing-impaired community in times of crisis, which can prove to be a significant move towards inclusive public ...