We’ve heard a lot about hearing loss in recent years. Young people in particular have been warned repeatedly about the risks associated with listening to headphones at high volumes. While plenty of audiologists have issued dire warnings about widespread hearing loss among American adults, a new study published in JAMA Otolaryngology suggests people are actually […]
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High Frequency Tests Help Detect Hearing Loss in Adolescents
Noise-induced hearing loss rarely happens all at once. Instead, it occurs gradually of a period of years or even decades. Because noise-induced hearing loss is a slow, incremental process, many people don’t realize that they’re living with pronounced hearing damage until it becomes downright debilitating. This type of hearing loss often begins in people’s teenage […]
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US Air Force Conducts Study Designed to Prevent Hearing Loss
Serving in the armed forces is an inherently risky job, and hearing loss is the most common health issue affecting American soldiers. After returning from one or more tours of duty, hearing loss and persistent tinnitus can make it difficult for veterans to find civilian jobs and lead healthy, comfortable lives. That’s why the Air […]
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Scientists Look to Sea Anemones to Reverse Hearing Loss
The bottom of the ocean might be the last place you’d think to look for a cure to human hearing loss, but that’s exactly where the authors of a report published in the Journal of Experimental Biology hope to find one. The idea was born as the biologists studied the remarkable ability of sea anemones […]
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Chemotherapy Drug Linked to Hearing Loss in Cancer Survivors
Chemotherapy treatments are life-saving medical procedures that have prevented countless deaths from various forms of cancer. Unfortunately, because chemo drugs rely on intracellular poisons to kill cancer cells, they can sometimes have adverse effects on healthy cells as well. This is why many cancer patients lose their hair when they undergo chemotherapy treatments. In some […]
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Dispelling Common Myths About Hearing Loss
At Electronic Shooters Protection, our primary goal is to protect your hearing. Unfortunately, there are a lot of rumors and myths about hearing loss that many people believe to be true. Knowing how to best protect your hearing means that you need to know the difference between what actually causes hearing loss and what is […]
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