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My Letter to the Editor which follows was prompted by Dr. Pichora-Fuller’s excellent, evidence-based, in-depth discussion of communication surrounding the retracted academic paper appearing in the Lancet Public Health titled: “Retraction of a Publication Error Reporting That Hearing Aid Use Modified Dementia Risk (Pichora-Fuller, 2024) which appeared in Volume 11, Issue 1 of the Canadian…
Even after more than 40 years in this field, I still need to be reminded on occasion that the ears are not just those things that hold my glasses onto my head. Ears are only one small cog in the human machine and it is wrong to assume that hearing exists in a vacuum… actually…
Neil Baumnan gives us some interesting history on how CROS hearing aids existed a decade before CROS aids were invented.
If you think you know a thing or two about ear trumpets, I’d bet Michael Briggs knows more! In this fascinating article, he tells the history of the ear trumpet, as well as sharing some wonderful pictures from his Guiness World Record collection.
Most people who experience tinnitus do not find it disturbing, but about 20% of people with tinnitus need clinical support to cope with the noise. About 2% of those affected suffer so severely that their daily lives and quality of life are significantly impaired.
CanadianAudiologist.ca had approached the people at Oticon Canada to submit this article on the new Audible Contrast Threshold (ACT™) test which is supported by their most recent incarnation of their software. The ACT test uses modulated noise rather than words, and is therefore language independent.
In this edition of “Striking the Right Balance,” Erica Zaia, MSc. RAUD documents her personal experience with vestibular migraine.
Patrons and people living near entertainment venue zones can suffer without stringent noise control and effective enforcement. Toronto ignores its own research, high complaint level history, negative public feedback, noise enforcement challenges and the proposal’s health impacts.
January 2024 began with interesting news as The Lancet Public Health Editors published a retraction notification (Lancet Public Health Editors, 2024a) for an article entitled “Association between hearing aid use and all-cause and cause-specific dementia: an analysis of the UK Biobank cohort.”
