Archive for December, 2008

Natural Ringing Ears Treatment - Should You Use Drugs Or Natural Tinnitus Treatment

Currently there is no treatment from modern scientific medicine that can cure the ringing ears problem or better known as tinnitus permanently and effectively. With so many contributing factors over ringing ears, most often the doctor gets lost in determining the main cause of your tinnitus.Meanwhile a natural ringing ears treatment is your best chance [...]

Surgeons Attempt To Restore Hearing To Patient With Rare Tumor

Physicians at the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago performed a rare surgery this week to restore hearing to a deaf patient. Marisela Leon, 44, has neurofibromatosis type 2 — a rare genetic condition that causes tumors to grow on nerves in the brain or spinal cord, but most commonly on [...]

Neuromonics Awarded $1 Million To Conduct Army Tinnitus Study

Neuromonics, Inc. recently announced that it has been designated to receive million in funding through the Department of Defense to study the treatment of tinnitus among military servicemembers. The Neuromonics Tinnitus Treatment is a clinically proven treatment, offering long-term relief by comprehensively targeting the neurological root causes of tinnitus.

Hints And Tips For Identifying Hearing Health Issues At Christmas

Social season generates peak in hearing aid sales and test requests Family gatherings and social get togethers over the Christmas period are a prime time to identify hearing problems and results in a peak of audiology tests and hearing instrument purchases in the New Year. Hearing loss is [...]

Improved Hearing Preservation Following Lower-Dose Fractionated Stereotactic Radiotherapy

Researchers at Thomas Jefferson University have found that a lower dose of fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy for acoustic neuromas results in better hearing preservation and has the same tumor local control rate as a higher dose of therapy. The study appeared online in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics. “We previously had not [...]

Understanding the Costs of Hearing Amplifiers

If you think you could benefit from a hearing aid than it is important that you first consult your doctor. They can help you clear up a lot of questions for you. It can be very difficult to enter the world of hearing devices as there are a ton of options out there with a [...]

Many Unaware Of The Risk To Their Hearing From MP3 Players

The audiology departments at Epsom and St Helier hospitals are advising people to listen carefully to their new MP3 players, including iPods, this Christmas. Dr Robin Yeoh is a specialist in hearing and the Trust’s lead clinician in audiology. He said: “There are now more ways to listen to music [...]

Advantages Of Identifying Hearing Problems Soon After Birth

Five years since the first babies were screened for hearing problems in Hull and East Yorkshire the benefits of the Newborn Hearing Screening Programme are clear to see. Children who had hearing problems identified soon after birth are now reaping the rewards of early treatment interventions with one [...]

Hearing Aids Can Change a Life

It can truthfully be said that hearing aids can simply change your life. The pastor of a small church had the unique opportunity to see this affect on his congregation. The congregation included several people who rely on hearing aids. Often, he was asked to clarify himself in a phone conversation, or literally asked to [...]

How Can You Avoid Tinnitus?

It is a condition where a person “hears” a ringing sound in ones ear in spite of any actual sound being present in the situation. People with tinnitus often complain of a ringing noise in their ears, which drowns out all other noises, often making it very painful. This type of ringing is often compared [...]