February 22, 2022

Loss of Lip-Reading Caused by Masks Affecting Communication for Everyone

Deterioration in speech understanding when the speaker is wearing a mask mainly has visual causes. They are even more significant...

February 8, 2022

Connecting Hearing Loss and Cognitive Issues

Hearing loss doesn’t just mean an older adult needs to turn up the TV. It’s been linked to a range...

February 1, 2022

Constant Tinnitus Connected to Altered Brain Activity

There has to date been no reliable objective method of diagnosing tinnitus. Researchers from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden now show...

January 25, 2022

More Trials Needed to Develop Hearing Loss Treatments

Over 5% of the world’s population (430 million people) require rehabilitation to address their “disabling” hearing loss, according to the...

January 18, 2022

Scientists Studying Cadavers to Understand Coronavirus Link to Hearing Loss

In a narrow medical school hallway, Matt Stewart opened a large cabinet to reveal dozens of shelves stacked with wooden...

January 11, 2022

New COVID-19 Variant Could Cause Tinnitus

A new study by audiologists at the University of Manchester - supported by the NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) -...

January 4, 2022 / Hearing Loss

New Gene Therapy on the Horizon for Hearing Loss

As lewd and crude and rude as it sounds, it is the general response for the person on the street,...

December 21, 2021

Understanding the Link Between Hearing Loss, Tinnitus & Migraines

An independent association may exist between migraine with subjective hearing loss (HL) and tinnitus, while otologic migraine—defined as the effects of migraine...

December 14, 2021

New Poll Shows Over Half of Concertgoers Don’t Wear Ear Protection

According to a recent EDM.com poll, 64% of live event attendees don't wear ear protection at live shows. Ear protection during live...

December 7, 2021

Gene Associated with Hearing Loss Visualized

Researchers from Uppsala University have been able to document and visualise hearing loss-associated genes in the human inner ear, in...