A new large-scale study published in The Lancet Public Health has added more evidence confirming the effectiveness of hearing aids in reducing the risk of dementia from hearing loss.

• The study involved 437,704 people from the ...

Mary Louise Kelly, a co-host of NPR’s daily newsmagazine All Things Considered, has written a memoir, It. Goes. So. Fast. The Year of No Do-Overs, about her hearing loss and coping strategies. She realized she was going deaf in her 40s, getting ...

Noise-induced hearing loss is an occupational hazard for musicians, sound engineers, and related professionals. For example, 30 to 50 percent of professional musicians have tinnitus caused by hearing loss.

“Professional musicians ...

Hearing is a vital component of a sensory-cognitive system and not an isolated sensory experience.

• When you improve hearing, you improve hearing-and-brain health.
• Likewise, when hearing deteriorates, so does the brain’s health.

As ...

A routine hearing test given to newborns could help spot autism and other neurodevelopmental variations early in infancy.

Rutgers University researchers found newborns with distinct delays in their auditory brainstem response (ABR) to sounds ...

Increasing dietary magnesium intake may lead to better brain health and reduce the risk of dementia, according to a study by the Neuroimaging and Brain Lab at The Australian National University.

While scientists continue to research treatments ...

Columbia University research suggests the relationship between age-related hearing loss and cognitive decline also applies to people with "normal" hearing but who have lost some hearing. This loss of hearing is called hidden ...

Forty percent of dementia cases can be prevented or postponed by reducing risk factors individually and through public policy. Dementia is not inevitable.

Although research cannot definitively prove that doing X instead of Y protects against ...

Researchers from Portland State, Oregon State, and York universities investigated how the severity of hearing loss affects an employee's work experience and what strategies employers can use to build a more hospitable workplace.

The study ...