The Hearing Norton Sound study, which focused on school-based hearing screening programs in rural Alaska, showed that referring children to specialists via telemedicine provides significantly quicker access to follow-up care than referring them to primary care providers.
Since the 1950s, several different attempts have been made to measure human hearing underwater. The US military, for example, has had an interest in understanding how divers are affected by underwater explosions, and in general, the hearing tests have been very different.
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MarkeTrak 2022 updates and extends the findings of MT10 (2019) generated by this series of consumer surveys—the most comprehensive and oldest of its kind, dating back to 1989—of hearing aid users and non-users in the United States. In particular, MT2022 includes new information about hearing aid use by gender and race, and also includes data on cochlear implant use and personal sound amplification products (PSAPs), as well as the emerging class of what may soon become over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids.
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A recent study published in “eClinicalMedicine” looked at 49,247 individuals with HPV infection among the population-based National Health Insurance Research Database of Taiwan to investigate the potential link between viral infection and sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL).
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A review and meta-analysis published in “Multiple Sclerosis and Other Related Disorders” examined studies from PubMed (Medline), Scopus, Web of Science, and Embase, from 1970 to July 2021 to find the prevalence of hearing loss among people with multiple sclerosis.
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In a study of 385 adults 45 and older with hearing loss in China, published in “BMC Medicine,” researchers conclude: “It is imperative that middle and older adults with age-related hearing loss wear hearing aids regularly to recover their hearing, as well as strengthen their social participation and social network to further improve QoL.”
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Noninvasive sound technology developed at the University of Michigan breaks down liver tumors in rats, kills cancer cells, and spurs the immune system to prevent further spread—an advance that could lead to improved cancer outcomes in humans.
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Samantha Robler, AuD, PhD, from Norton Sound Health Corporation and Susan D. Emmett, MD, MPH, associate professor of head and neck surgery and audiology and associate professor of global health at Duke University, have been researching childhood hearing loss in remote and rural areas of Alaska. Their work identified a gap in the screening tools that can be used to identify children with hearing loss.
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UC San Francisco Veterans Affairs Health Care System tracked health and demographic data from close to two million veterans. It compared rates of dementia across five racial groups and showed significant race-based differences in the incidence of the condition.
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Are we all imagining the same thing when we listen to music, or are our experiences hopelessly subjective? In other words, is music a truly universal language? To investigate those questions, an international team of researchers (including a classical pianist, a rock drummer, and a concert bassist) asked hundreds of people what stories they imagined when listening to instrumental music.
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And while learning to read in an online setting may seem a tall order, a new study by the University of Washington’s Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences finds that children can develop key reading skills in a virtual classroom with other students.
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Across languages and cultures, words that help direct caregivers’ attention are likely to be among the first children learn and use frequently, according to a new Cornell study that is the largest ever, by sample size, of early vocabulary development in an Indigenous language.
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Linguists don’t always agree on how and why language changes. Now, a new study of American Sign Language (ASL) adds support to one potential reason: sometimes, we just want to make our lives a little easier.
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Sleep is a natural example of major shifts in spontaneous brain activity and perceptual state, suggesting an interaction between sleep and tinnitus that has so far been little considered.
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Gael Hannan is an advocate, author, and speaker who grew up with a progressive hearing loss that is now severe-to-profound. She is a past director on the national board of the Canadian Hard of Hearing Association (CHHA) and has served as a speechreading instructor and volunteer for many hearing-related programs. She developed the Hearing Foundation of Canada’s “Sound Sense” hearing awareness program which is delivered to elementary students across Canada, and created a national awareness campaign on infant hearing screening for the same organization.
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For two decades, Roger Wiens has built instruments to give humans eyes and a nose on Mars – and now he’s helping add ears as well. Wiens, a professor of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences in the College of Science at Purdue University, and an expert in Mars robotics technology, led the team that built SuperCam, a device on the Perseverance Mars rover that includes a laser for zapping rocks as well as the microphone that brought the first recordings of Mars to Earth.
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Publishing in the open-access journal “PLOS Biology” on April 5, the study shows that greater left-brain asymmetry can predict both better performance and average performance on a foundational measure of reading ability, depending on whether analysis is conducted over the whole brain or in specific regions.
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