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Pill that could stop both hearing loss and tinnitus is now being tested First drug treatment for both conditions has been developed in the UK Works on a protein that helps form pores on the surface of nerve cells Eleven UK hospitals are embarking on a clinical trial with 150 patients If successful, future trials could include people with longer term tinnitus By Roger Dobson for the Daily MailPublished: 18:39 EST, 16 February 2015 | Updated: 19:58 EST, 16 February 2015A new pill designed to combat both hearing loss and tinnitus is now being tested on patients for the first...

Feb 12 (Reuters) - The U.S. hearing aid market grew 13 percent year-on-year in January, flattered by comparisons with 2014 when harsh winter weather depressed sales, data from Bernstein Research showed on Thursday.North American sales generate 35 to 44 percent of revenues for the world's largest hearing aid makers including Switzerland's Sonova and Danish rivals GN Store Nord and William Demant.Military veterans are a key customer in the United States, accounting for 22 percent of all hearing aid units sold there.Sales to the Veteran Administration (VA), the largest U.S. healthcare organisation, showed the same unit-per-day growth of 14 percent as...

Can You Use QTIPs IN YOUR EAR It’s actually not safe to use Q-Tips in your ears. Doing so can damage to the ear drum and result in hearing loss. There’s even a warning on the box, and the official statement on the Q-Tip website (Q-Tip is a brand name) says “They also provide the ultimate precision, making them the perfect tool for uses outside your ear.”\More Q-Tip facts: “Q-Tip” is a brand name. The generic name for the product is “cotton-tipped applicator”. The Q in Q-Tip stands for “quality”. Originally the product was called “Baby Gays”Earwax is the body’s...

Tinnitus appears to be produced by an unfortunate confluence of structural and functional changes in the brain, say neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC). The ringing in your ears, also called tinnitus, is caused by the lack of sound due to gradual hearing loss. This hearing loss can be caused by various factors, among them normal aging, loud-noise exposure, or an accident. The brain therefore is inclined to produce its own sounds to replace the frequencies that are missing in what the ear hears.Tinnitus is the result when the brain’s limbic system (the part of the brain that deals...

By Tim StevensLike so many of us, Anthony Smith just wants to be like his favorite super heroes.He wants to be as strong as The Hulk, as fast as Quicksilver, as smart as Mister Fantastic, and as funny as Spider-Man. However, when he looked up to his favorites, he saw that none of them seemed to be like him in one key way: none of them wore a hearing aid. So, despite the device—which he and his family call the “blue ear”—giving him the ability to hear the world around him, he rejected it.His mother, Christina D'Allesandro, frustrated by the...

A worker for Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. in Tennessee is entitled to workers compensation benefits for his high-frequency hearing loss despite there being no mention of “this type of injury” in the American Medical Association’s Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled. Orville Lambdin worked for Goodyear Tire in Jackson, Michigan, and then Union City, Tennessee, according to court records. Shortly after retiring in 2009 after 37 years with the company, he filed a workers comp claim for hearing loss. Goodyear didn’t provide workers with hearing protection until the mid-1980s, according to records, and...

Increased hearing loss in service members associated with combat experience By Wyatt Olson Stars and Stripes Published: February 10, 2015 Senior Airman Leighann Schuster, a 141st Air Refueling Squadron boom operator, prepares for her annual hearing exam with the 108th Wing Medical Group at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, May 17, 2014. Schuster was required to get the hearing exam as part of her annual physical health assessment. Kellyann Novak/U.S. Air National Guard photo War is hell … on your hearing.That’s what researchers concluded in a study published in the most recent issue of the journal Noise & Health.“We found that combat...

On the left hand side.. a cashew nut.. on the right, a hearing aid.. Photo: Alamy

Article from the Atlantic As human-enhancing technology becomes tinier and more advanced, the price of progress is complexity. Ryan Budish Feb 5 2015, 10:31 AM ET Lauren Giordano/The Atlantic I was into wearables before there was Google Glass, Apple Watch, or the Moto 360. I was into them before cheap devices told you how much you had walked, run, slept, or eaten. In fact, I’ve been into them for so long now that I’m not quite sure when it started. I think it was around when I was 5, in 1986.The wearables I started wearing as a kid and still...

ATLANTA (WXIA) -- A huge nationwide security breach at the country's number two health insurer, Anthem, may have a major impact on subscribers in Georgia. Anthem is the parent company to Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia.Anthem says says hackers are pushing an email scam that may further expose customer's information. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia is still trying to determine how many customers' personal information -- social security numbers, email addresses, birth dates and employment information -- may have been stolen in a nationwide cyberattack."The guy said that I owed back taxes and they were going to arrest...

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Angel Sound is an interactive auditory training and hearing assessment program that lets you take control of your listening rehabilitation independently or self-administer your functional hearing test at home. You gain practice in discriminating and identifying sounds and speech components through a series of self-paced modules that cover different aspects of the listening process. The level of difficulty is automatically adjusted to match your developing listening skills. The program provides audio-visual feedback, highlighting areas you can continue to practice. The training and testing results can be shared with your clinician or therapist, who can provide further advice on your rehabilitation....