Hard on the ears
Researchers at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) have determined that hearing loss in adolescents has increased over the past 15 years. Their findings are to be published Wednesday...
View ArticlePain relievers increase hearing loss risk
Headache? Back pain? At the first sign of pain, you might reach for a pain-relieving medicine to sooth your bodily woes. Analgesics are the most frequently employed medications in the United States and...
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Hard on the ears
Researchers at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) have determined that hearing loss in adolescents has increased over the past 15 years. Their findings are to be published Wednesday...
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Pain relievers increase hearing loss risk
Headache? Back pain? At the first sign of pain, you might reach for a pain-relieving medicine to sooth your bodily woes. Analgesics are the most frequently employed medications in the United States...
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Longer use of pain relievers tied to hearing loss in women
As many as two-thirds of women in the United States over the age of 60 have some degree of hearing loss. Using data from the Nurses’ Health Study, a team led by researchers from Harvard-affiliated...
View ArticleLonger use of pain relievers tied to hearing loss in women
As many as two-thirds of women in the United States over the age of 60 have some degree of hearing loss. Using data from the Nurses’ Health Study, a team led by researchers from Harvard-affiliated...
View ArticleGene-editing tool prevents hearing loss in mice with hereditary deafness
Scientists at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital have used a novel gene-editing approach to salvage the hearing of mice with genetic hearing loss, and have succeeded in doing so...
View ArticleWhy it may be hard to follow conversations in noisy environments
A pair of biomarkers of brain function — one that represents listening effort, and another that measures the ability to process rapid changes in frequencies — may help explain why a person with normal...
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Gene editing may be a path to restore partial hearing
When Wei Hsi “Ariel” Yeh was an undergraduate, one of her close friends went from normal hearing to complete deafness in one month. He was 29 years old. Doctors didn’t know why then and still don’t....
View ArticleNew hope for easing stigma and isolation of hearing loss
The Food and Drug Administration recently approved regulations that will allow hearing aids to be sold over the counter as early as this fall, a move intended to broaden access to the devices, which...
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