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Scientists have been accumulating evidence in lab animals for years that a pill might be able to reduce the damage loud noise does to your hearing. Coming in now are the trusty Marines. In a couple of months ahead, the Marines at California’s Camp Pendleton, all 600 of them will venture into rifle training drinking something that tastes a lot like wild berry herbal tea while ear plugs are jammed in their ear canals. Continue reading

A pill that counters or reduces the effects of noise to hearing is being studied thoroughly by scientists for years now with the aid of lab animals. But such a task requires the help of the Marines. Marines of Camp Pendleton California will soon get into rifle training and all 600 of them will do so with foam plugs in their ears and drinking a refreshing tea concoction in wild berry flavor. Continue reading

We fostered a two part talk on noise troubles and hearing loss just in the last week. This has become the third pollution quandary for many individuals. There is a big probability that people that work in very loud and noisy working sites will lose their sense of hearing either partially or all of it. The usual suspects are tractor operators and other machinery which need to be running for a long while. After being exposed to loud and noisy machines which cause ringing in the ears, trouble is certainly on board. Continue reading

Ears should be treated well. Those who are hard of hearing can use lip reading or hearing aids for some help. However, it is sad that countless children who are born with good hearing actually have it impaired through a tragedy or through an illness. Continue reading

Is it possible for you to repeat what it was you mentioned just a while ago for I did not hear you. When we hear, we actually interact with others. Communication abilities will be best developed with this capability. Affecting communication is one of the concerns with hearing problems but there are also its effects on a person’s personality. Do not lose hope if you belong to the one out of three people in the United States who are facing hearing impairments on a daily basis for there are a lot of available options for treatment that you can avail of. From the following guidelines not only will you be able to sort out your own problems with hearing impairments but you could also aid other people who may be hard of hearing to communicate better. Continue reading

There is a saying that says silence is golden. It’s an old saying that rings especially true for 10 to 15 million people nationwide, people who suffer from a ringing in their ears known as tinnitus. This lady from Tyrone knows about living with tinnitus. She started to get what she calls a hissing sound in her ears about 10 years ago when she started losing her hearing in her left ear. The hissing gradually changed to a squealing that became painful. Continue reading

Did you happen to hear the doves cooing outside your window this evening? Did you enjoy watching their aerial acrobatics, turning your head to keep them in sight, soaking in those last rays of the summer sun? There are more than 50 million people who suffer from loss of hearing and won’t be aware that this is going on right above them, as well as other events around them. Audiologists agree that frequent use of powerful vacuums, lawn mowers or leaf blowers can be harmful to your hearing if you don’t also use earplugs in conjunction with these activities. Not to mention concerts and loud sporting events. Continue reading

Ecstatic are teachers who are informed that their class would only consist of six. This is not the situation though for a hearing impaired program’s lady instructor. Aged from 5 to 15 years old, her six students are part of a program done by the local cooperative for special education that received funding from a three year federal grant. It is part of the coop’s efforts to serve 19 school districts providing for learning disability classes. Continue reading

One Monday morning it was a demanding day for the speech and hearing clinic. For twenty five children, either a speech clinician or a hearing technician made an evaluation for possible speech or hearing problems. The screenings were extended to 537 children from different preschools and these were conducted by a junior league volunteer technician and a staff speech pathologist. More exams were needed for hearing for 61 children and 86 for further speech assessments. Continue reading

A famous actor was filming a western movie more than fifty years ago, when a gun accidentally went off near his ear; he suffered hearing loss as a result. While the title of President of the United States was in store for him, he would carry out his job with the help of a pair of hearing aids – one was used to boost the hearing and the other balanced the sound. Continue reading