Healthcare News
Cost of hearing aids: What to know
Hearing aids range significantly in cost, starting from about $1,000 and going up to as much as $6,000. Often, the costs include hearing tests, follow-ups, and ongoing support from healthcare professionals, including audiologists.
Hearing loss and anxiety: What`s the connection?
If you’ve just been diagnosed with hearing loss—or your hearing has gotten worse—you may be feeling anxious. It's a normal reaction to stressful situations, but for some people it spirals out of control and becomes a disorder in and of itself.
Living with mild hearing loss
Hearing loss is divided into degrees of severity from mild to profound. If you have mild hearing loss, your hearing loss isn't severe and you can likely "fake it until you make it" in many social situations.
What is hyperacusis?
Do normal sounds seem unbearable to you? For some people, ordinary levels of sound make their ears hurt. It can be a bewildering experience, both for the person who has it, and their friends and family.
Researchers analyze varying structure of ear canals to improve comfort, efficiency of earplugs
Noise exposure accounts for 22% of worldwide work-related health problems. Excessive noise not only causes hearing loss and tinnitus, but also increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases. To provide protection, workers normally wear earplugs. However, commonly available earplugs are often uncomfortable, since they don't fit everyone's ears equally well. How could we improve the comfort and effectiveness of these earplugs? What aspects of the ear canal must be taken into account?