Archive for December, 2008
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 [...]
December 29th, 2008 | Posted in Hearing Aids | No Comments
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 [...]
December 27th, 2008 | Posted in Hearing and Deafness News | No Comments
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.
December 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Hearing and Deafness News | No Comments
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 [...]
December 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Hearing and Deafness News | No Comments
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 [...]
December 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Hearing and Deafness News | No Comments
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 [...]
December 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Hearing Aids | No Comments
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 [...]
December 17th, 2008 | Posted in Hearing and Deafness News | No Comments
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 [...]
December 17th, 2008 | Posted in Hearing and Deafness News | No Comments
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 [...]
December 15th, 2008 | Posted in Hearing Aids | No Comments
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 [...]
December 8th, 2008 | Posted in Hearing Aids | No Comments