The Stigma of Wearing Hearing Aids
  • Dec 08 2022
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The Stigma of Wearing Hearing Aids

The historical and often hysterical stigma attached to deafness and hearing loss may work as a deterrent that puts people off getting their hearing checked.

The Stigma of Wearing Hearing Aids

Sudden Deafness
  • Feb 10 2020
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Sudden Deafness

Most Hearing loss is acquired through recreational and workplace noise, illness, medications and as part of the process of ageing. Sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSHL), commonly known as sudden deafness, is an unexplained, rapid loss of hearing either all at once or over a few days.

Sudden Deafness

Cleaning and Maintaining Hearing Aids
  • Oct 07 2019
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Cleaning and Maintaining Hearing Aids

If you are not cleaning and maintaining your hearing aid daily, the microphone ports will get blocked with wax and so will your wax management system at the speaker end.

Cleaning and Maintaining Hearing Aids

One Hearing Aid or Two?
  • Feb 06 2019
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One Hearing Aid or Two?

If you have a hearing loss in both ears the simple answer is two hearing aids. Why? Because that is how your brain is designed to work at its optimal best as explained in this article.

One Hearing Aid or Two?

Childrens Hearing Linked to Social Disadvantage
  • Dec 08 2016
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Childrens Hearing Linked to Social Disadvantage

It is now understood that chronic ear disease and the resulting deafness is a major cause of social disadvantage. If a child can't hear it is difficult to learn, it's difficult to gain an education or a job.

Childrens Hearing Linked to Social Disadvantage

Hearing Loss and Dementia
  • Oct 01 2015
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Hearing Loss and Dementia

Hearing loss is independently associated with incidental-cause dementia. Whether hearing loss is a marker for early-stage dementia or is actually a modifiable risk factor for dementia deserves further study.

Hearing Loss and Dementia

Myth: Hearing Aids do not work
  • Mar 06 2015
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Myth: Hearing Aids do not work

Not everyone pops in a hearing aid and trots off into the sunlight with perfect hearing.

Myth: Hearing Aids do not work

Hearing and your work prospects
  • Mar 08 2013
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Hearing and your work prospects

Hearing loss can have a dramatic effect on your employment prospects.

Hearing and your work prospects

Hearing and your baby
  • Dec 18 2012
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Hearing and your baby

Only one or two children in every 1,000 have significant permanent hearing loss.

Hearing and your baby

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