You're walking more slowly, but before you blame your knees or age, researchers want you to check your ears.

A study of 57,183 iPhone users found that hearing loss and slower walking speed are linked across all adult age groups.

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Hearing loss doesn't announce itself. It creeps in at high frequencies first, and if you have diabetes, the odds are worse than you'd think.

Why it matters

Hearing loss affects roughly twice as many people with diabetes as age-matched ...

Scientists have known for years that deaf people's brains reassign auditory real estate to process vision. What they got wrong was how. A new study in Human Brain Mapping flips the assumption.

Scientists thought the deaf brain ...

Musicians are suffering from damaged hearing at alarming rates. A new study quantified an occupational hazard that the music world has normalized. Ignore them at your patients' expense.

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This isn’t a niche occupational ...

Why it matters

Researchers at Northwestern, the University of Pittsburgh, and UW-Madison found that Heschl's gyrus, long considered a basic relay station, encodes the rise and fall of pitch as significant linguistic information. That's why ...

Australian researchers have found the shingles vaccine may help protect against dementia. They analyzed ...

Swimmer's ear is America's top waterborne illness, leading to some 4.7 million infections and $280M in emergency room costs annually. This painful ear infection, otitis externa, occurs when trapped water creates conditions for bacteria or fungi to ...

Most people treat hearing loss as a nuisance, but research links it to increased dementia risk. This perception gap is a clinical problem. Neuroscientist Kelly ...

Earplugs have a secret: they often make workers miserable enough to take them off. A team of researchers engineered a fix — no batteries required.

Why it matters

Workplace hearing loss ranks among the most common occupational illnesses. ...