Hearing Problems & Deafness
There are two different types of hearing impairments, conductive hearing impairment and sensorineural hearing impairment. A third type is a combination of the two called mixed hearing loss. Hearing impairments are categorized by their type - conductive, sensorineural or both, by their severity, and by the age of onset. Furthermore, a hearing impairment may exist in only one ear or in both ears.
Hearing Problems & Deafness Stories
Wolfram Syndrome causes insulin-dependent diabetes in childhood, as well as hearing and vision loss and kidney issues. As sufferers become older, they may also develop cognitive problems and dementia.
Deaf people perceive touch differently than hearing people, says a new study.
A group of Ukrainian students have created a glove that can convert the movements made in sign language into speech.
Children exposed to HIV before birth may be at high risk for developing hearing loss by the age of 16.
Ever since the first electric guitar hit the stage, parents have been warning kids that listening to loud music could damage their hearing.
Tinnitus, which affects about 1 in 5 people, is a debilitating condition that causes a persistent ringing or buzzing in the ears, according to the Mayo Clinic.
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have decoded those electrical signals, enabling them to predict the words a person heard by translating the brain activity.
Panasonic Healthcare Group has introduced a new series of behind-the-ear hearing aids for people with mild to severe hearing loss which features a Bluetooth-enabled hub with memo-recording ability and up to 300 hours of battery life.- Lowering the cost of hearing aids isn't enough to motivate adults with mild hearing loss to purchase a device at a younger age or before their hearing worsens, according to researchers at Henry Ford Hospital.
Nearly two-thirds of Americans age 70 and older have hearing loss, but those who are of black race seem to have a protective effect against this loss, according to a new study led by Johns Hopkins and National Institute on Aging researchers.
Sustained exposure to loud workplace noise may affect quality of sleep in workers with occupational-related hearing loss, according to a new study by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researchers.