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Study Shows Hearing Loss and Tinnitus Common in Cancer Survivors
While children receiving chemotherapy routinely undergo hearing tests, adults don't, and a new study by UC San Francisco reports for the first time that significant hearing issues often occur among adult survivors of the most common forms of cancer.The researchers found tha...
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Department of Labor Emphasizes Importance of Hearing Loss Programs in the Work Place
Following a 90-day outreach period, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Regional Emphasis Program for Noise Induced Hearing Loss will move into the enforcement phase beginning May 17, 2022. The emphasis program targets manufa...
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New Captioning Tool Expands Options for Individuals with Hearing Loss
The number of tools used to caption words has been expanding in recent years. The tools are especially helpful for people with hearing loss who may not be able to use traditional hearing aids.Captioning services used to be limited mostly to television shows. But in rece...
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New Sequencing Enhances NICU Hearing Loss Findings
Expanded genomic sequencing may be an effective adjunct hearing screening to detect hearing loss among patients in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), according to a study published online July 11 in JAMA Network Open.Yunqian Zhu, from National Children's Medical...
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Hearing Loss Projected to be Commonplace Condition
Can you imagine a time when hearing loss would be commonplace? When it would be more prevalent than not in a social setting? When it would be the new normal? Given demographic trends, we may be rapidly approaching such a time. This is driven by three important factors — (1)...
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Hearing Loss May Be Early Symptom of Parkinson’s Disease
Queen Mary researchers funded by Bart's Charity used electronic primary healthcare records from over a million people living in East London between 1990 and 2018 to explore early symptoms and risk factors for Parkinson’s, according to an article on the ...
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Patients with POAG at a Higher Risk for Tinnitus
Tinnitus was significantly associated with pre-existing primary open-angle glaucoma, researchers reported in the Journal of Glaucoma.“The underlying mechanism relating glaucoma and tinnitus is not exactly clear,” Tung-Mei Kuang, MD, PhD, of the dep...
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Rare Cause Linked to Vertigo and Hearing Loss
Air bubbles trapped in a woman's inner ear caused her to develop severe dizziness, seemingly out of nowhere, and she required surgery to make the disorienting, spinning sensation go away.The 51-year-old woman initially went to the doctor after experiencing this strange spin...
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New Study Examines Therapy that Could Reverse Hearing Loss
The biotechnology company Frequency Therapeutics is seeking to reverse hearing loss — not with hearing aids or implants, but with a new kind of regenerative therapy. The company uses small molecules to program progenitor cells, a descendant of stem cells in the inner ear, t...
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Researchers Study Sudden Hearing Loss and COVID-19 Vaccines
No association was found between COVID-19 vaccination and the occurrence of sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL), according to a cross-sectional, population-based study published in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery.Previous research from Israel found ca...
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