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Health Oct 22

What consumers should know about the limits and risks of over-the-counter hearing aids

By Bradley Kesser, University of Virginia

Health Oct 17

A white hand holds up a hearing aid
You can now buy lower-cost hearing aids over the counter. Here’s how

The new options are intended for adults with mild to moderate hearing loss — a market of tens of millions of people, many of whom have until now avoided getting help because aids were so expensive.

By Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News

Health Sep 10

America’s most common workplace injury is hearing loss

Eight years ago, Jeff Ammon, now 55, began noticing a feeling of pressure in his ears every day after work.

By Zhai Yun Tan, Kaiser Health News

Health Feb 28

WHO: More than 1 billion young people at risk for hearing loss

More than 1 billion young people around the world are at risk of hearing loss because of recreational exposure to loud sounds, the World Health Organization said Friday.

By Daniel Costa-Roberts

Science Apr 24

Gene therapy shows promise to help people regrow auditory nerve cells

A new study outlines how gene therapy could reverse hearing loss and deafness. This may be music to the ears of the roughly 300,000 patients across the globe that depend on cochlear implants to hear. Australian researchers…

By Robert Pursell

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