A new study reveals an overlooked benefit of cochlear implant programming: clinicians who optimize these devices for speech aren't just helping patients communicate better. They're helping them enjoy music again.

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Nearly one in five adults with tinnitus have reduced hours or quit their jobs. Research published in Brain Sciences by Anglia Ruskin University concludes that tinnitus is more than an annoyance: it's a career-ender for some.

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A 43-year study published in JAMA tracked over 130,000 healthcare workers and found your daily caffeine habit may protect your brain as you age. It's the longest study of coffee and tea's effects on cognition—nearly four decades longer than prior research.

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The University of South Florida launched the nation's first integrated voice and hearing facility, where patients receive clinical care and contribute to research in one location. The Institute for Voice and Hearing Innovation opened this February.

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Tinnitus, the nagging sound of ringing or buzzing in the ears with no external source, impacts millions worldwide. Until now, doctors couldn't objectively measure how much this condition bothers patients. Researchers at Mass General Brigham have discovered ...

A new study from Sun Yat-sen University challenges decades of brain-focused dementia research. Researchers linked one-third of dementia cases to non-brain diseases. The research appears in Nature Human Behaviour.

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Researchers at the University of Cambridge solved a vexing problem: how to help stroke survivors communicate fluently without implanting brain electrodes. Their solution? A wearable choker called Revoice that reads throat vibrations and turns silently ...

Hearing now has a simple, trackable metric, such as blood pressure or 20/20 vision. It's called the Hearing Number, and thanks to Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health millions of people can now measure it themselves using ...

Millions lose hearing to noise damage and aging. Now, biologists at UC San Diego's Department of Cell and Developmental Biology have built an AI system that renders 3D views of the tiny hair cells responsible for hearing. It works 50 times ...