New research suggests hormonal fluctuations across a person's lifespan produce measurably different auditory outcomes in men and women — with implications for how clinicians approach diagnosis and management of hearing loss.
The WSA Sound Preference program aims to reframe hearing aid counseling to include identifying individual sound preferences and thereby enable more personalized fittings, improved patient engagement, and better hearing aid satisfaction, and increase adoption.
The campaign uses international ambassadors to promote hearing health awareness in major public venues in the US, Belgium, and Japan.
In this study, various audio and visual communication modalities were examined to identify which communication perspective could best benefit patients following a hearing aid fitting.
Frank Lin, MD, PhD, discusses the Know Your Hearing Number campaign and why this concept can help break down barriers to hearing care.
Staying close to the bass player—or otherwise enhancing bass audibility—helps musicians and listeners, especially those with hearing loss, maintain pitch and better appreciate music.
A new digital reconstruction study shows that middle-ear hearing loss becomes severe when fluid occupies about half of the ear cavity, offering a non-invasive marker for diagnosing and staging otitis media with effusion.