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Originally posted at HHTM On September 24, 2015. Reprinted with permission. NEW YORK — NBC’s Today Show, a staple of morning television for more than 60 years, recently featured a segment on the increase in noise-induced hearing loss among children and young adults using earbuds. The segment mentioned a February, 2015 World Health Organization (WHO) warning that more than 1.1 billion teens and…
Originally posted at HHTM On September 29, 2015. Reprinted with permission. Two and a half years ago Hearing International discussed various homeopathic medicine treatments for In Part V of this discussion, we referenced theimpressive a research headed by Dr. Kathleen Campbell, audiologist and researcher at Southern Illinois University. A prolific researcher, whose team at Southern Illinois University has discovered that antioxidants can…
Originally posted at HHTM On October 20, 2015. Reprinted with permission. In many state or provincial worker’s compensation boards there is a “correction factor” that may be applied to a calculated noise induced hearing loss. In many cases, this is a “presbycusic” correction and may amount to subtracting 0.5 dB off of the calculated average hearing loss…
Originally posted at HHTM On October 13, 2015. Reprinted with permission. The “shape” or configuration of the sensori-neural hearing loss, at least in worker’s compensation board claims for noise exposure, is one of the base elements for deciding whether a hearing loss is indeed a noise induced hearing loss. Yet, not all audiograms of workers exposed to…
Originally posted at HHTM On October, 2015. Reprinted with permission. From time to time, I am asked either by a referring physician, a union, or a local Workers Compensation Board (sometimes referred to as the Worker’s Safety and Insurance Board) whether a particular worker has a hearing loss that could have been caused by his or her…
Version française disponible ci-dessous I recently returned from giving a series of talks in Australia, replete with the occasional snake and some 8-legged furry Australian citizens that have a propensity to crawl into people’s shoes at night. I am not sure of the exact statistic but I think that Australia has the highest ranking of…
Between the two of us, Canadian Audiologist Editor-in-Chief Marshall Chasin and I likely attend around a dozen conferences a year, and hands down, our favourite continues to be the annual conference of the Canadian Academy of Audiology. The conference is intimate and accessible, consistently offers a world class selection of speakers and learning opportunities, and…
Inspired by a recent trip to a noisy Toronto Blue Jays game, Calvin Staples gives us some blogs related to music and noise courtesy of our friends at HearingHealthMatters.org.
On a recent trip to Paris, Peter Stelmacovich wondered if there may be threats to audiology from new innovations.