A healthy diet is linked to every aspect of your entire health. Your food choices each day affect your health, how you feel today, tomorrow, and in the future. Combined with physical activity, your diet can help you to reach and maintain a healthy weight, reduce your risk of high blood pressure, heart disease and cancer and promote your overall … Read More
New Year’s Resolution: Get Your Hearing Tested
The New Year has come again and with it comes all the promises of a fresh start! Whatever your New Year’s resolutions are for this year, they will be harder to realize if your health is not in order. While people often think that hearing is only an ear issue nothing could be further from the truth. The whole body … Read More
Hearing Aids and Artificial Intelligence
Studies conducted in the last dozen years have associated hearing impairments to disabling conditions. Such conditions include Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive decline, diabetes, clinical depression, falls among the elderly, cardiovascular disease, and more. These connections are usually referred to as comorbidities, which, when explained further, mean that the concurrent presence of more than two chronic illnesses/diseases in a patient. A … Read More
Hearing Aids and Artificial Intelligence
How should a person respond when partial or full hearing loss occurs? Hearing loss can set a person back in several ways. The first way hearing loss sets a person back is that they can no longer function in society the same way. For the most part, the person with the deprivation must depend upon others to get around in … Read More
Studies on Hearing Loss & Injuries
Studies show that there is a close relationship between hearing loss and accidental injuries. According to the National Health Interview Survey, 16 percent of the people living in the United States have hearing loss. The research was done by this organization also showed that over three months, 2.8 percent of the adults had sustained accidental injuries. The odds of the … Read More
Hearing Loss Cures of the Past
Over the centuries, people have concocted outrageous potions and therapies to cure hearing loss. For much of the past, hearing loss was a relatively misunderstood affliction. Mostly, people viewed deafness as a terrible sickness that needed to be cured immediately and by any means necessary. The reality of deafness is that it’s harmless in most cases and just forces those … Read More
Ear Infections & Hearing Loss
People often attribute hearing loss to several factors such as aging, injury and heredity; but what usually doesn’t cross their minds is infection. Ear infections can very much reduce the hearing ability in patients either temporarily or permanently. This type of hearing issue is referred to as a conductive hearing loss. Here, we take a look at the correlation between … Read More
Hearing Loss and Millennials
For many of us, the first association with hearing loss is old age. Indeed, most people who live to old age do encounter some form of Presbycusis, the name for the type of hearing loss that happens as part of the natural process of aging. However, something is rapidly changing in the rates of hearing loss among younger people. Although … Read More
September is World Alzheimer’s Month
Consider the last time you had a long conversation. How did it go for you? Were you able to speak clearly and believe that the other person understood what you were saying? Were you able to understand the other person and get a good sense of what they intended to say? In one sense, we will never know exactly what … Read More
Does Tinnitus Cause Hearing Loss?
Tinnitus is a condition that affects around 45 million people in the United States of America, according to the Centers for Disease Control (otherwise known as the CDC). Tinnitus is related to hearing loss, but it does not cause hearing loss. It is especially prevalent in older adults, though it can affect people of all ages. People who are experiencing … Read More