Nottingham-based charity, The Ear Foundation, celebrates its 20 birthday with a party on Sunday 1 March, 2009. The first multi-channel implants for children in the UK were funded by The Ear Foundation and carried out here in Nottingham in 1989, with a great deal of support from the local community. From [...]
A new study involving iPods and teenagers by the University of Colorado at Boulder and Children’s Hospital Boston indicates teenagers who receive pressure from their peers or others to turn down the volume of their iPods instead turn them up higher.
Vitamin supplements can prevent hearing loss in laboratory animals, according to two new studies, bringing investigators one step closer to the development of a pill that could stave off noise-induced and perhaps even age-related hearing loss in humans. The findings will be reported Wednesday at the Association for Research in Otolaryngology’s annual [...]
About one-fifth of children with sensorineural hearing loss also have ocular disorders, according to a report in the February issue of Archives of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. An estimated one to three per 1,000 children have some degree of sensorineural hearing loss, which occurs as [...]
People who are deaf create their own languages in a variety of circumstances, according to experts who discussed this phenomenon during the 2009 AAAS Annual Meeting, in Chicago, Illinois. A single child with deafness, living in a family that uses spoken language, can invent simple gestures called “homesigns.” There may be thousands [...]
Our Aging Ears and Brains: Why Listening in Background Noise Gets Tougher as We Age Older adults often have trouble understanding what someone is saying when surrounded by background noise, such as at a restaurant or party, but their ears may not be the only problem. Researchers at the Medical University of [...]
Coping with the debilitating condition of tinnitus could become that bit easier thanks to a new blog being set up by leading charity Deafness Research UK. The blog, to mark National Tinnitus Week (9-15 February), will initially involve three Deafness Research UK supporters talking frankly about how they cope with their tinnitus on a daily [...]
Ringing, whining, whistling, hissing or whooshing. Any of those sounds in one or both ears when there is no external noise present could be a sign of tinnitus. The February issue of Mayo Clinic Women’s HealthSource provides an overview of this common condition. It’s estimated that 10 percent to 15 percent of [...]
What: The Association of Air Medical Services (AAMS) has been invited to participate in a four-day National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) public hearing on the safety of helicopter emergency medical services (EMS) operations. AAMS will be providing leading helicopter aviation and health care experts to serve as witnesses and interested parties at the hearing, which [...]
The Nottingham charity, The Ear Foundation warmly welcomes the release today of NICE guidance supporting cochlear implantation for deaf children and adults. After a detailed two year appraisal process, NICE has come out firmly in favour of cochlear implantation, pioneered by The Ear Foundation here in Nottingham. It paves the way for thousands of deaf [...]