Construction season stretches your days longer, adds more equipment, and packs more crews into the same space. It also builds a wave of hearing damage most workers won't notice until it's permanent.

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Occupational hearing ...

The race to cure genetic deafness has moved from the lab to the clinic. Emerging gene therapies are restoring hearing and language recognition in children. This biological approach aims to fix the underlying cellular damage.

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Traditional ...

Updated dementia guidance from the World Health Organization now places hearing loss front and center.

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WHO recommends hearing aids for anyone with documented hearing loss. Not just screening. Not watching and waiting. ...

Ever notice that person who can talk to you while still catching the gossip down the hall? Good hearing isn't the whole answer.

A new study from Trinity College Dublin has uncovered how the brain can track two conversations at once, for a brief ...

Your ears don't heal the way skin or bone does. Once the tiny inner-ear hairs bend or break, they're gone for good. Audiologists now see permanent damage in kids under 10.

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Hearing loss is irreversible. Humans are born ...

When loud noise damages your inner ear, your brain doesn't wait. A new study from Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, published in The Journal of Physiology, shows that specific brainstem circuits begin rebuilding themselves within 24 ...

Researchers at Monash and Deakin universities followed 2,192 Australian adults aged 40–70 and found a clear link between ultra-processed food consumption and worse attention and higher dementia risk. The kicker? A healthy diet won't cancel out the ...

Elephants stomp out messages that travel through the ground and are interpreted by elephants kilometers away. A Frontiers in Audiology and Otology study explained why this works.

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Elephants communicate through the air ...

UK researchers found that more bright light exposure during the day led to a 16% lower dementia risk, more than quitting smoking or losing weight.

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For years, health professionals have advised better sleep, less alcohol, ...