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Sudden Hearing Loss: When Hearing Changes Are a Medical Emergency
The Hearing Change Most People Wait Too Long On You wake up one morning and something feels off. One ear sounds muffled. Maybe there's a ringing you didn't have yesterday. You figure it's clogged, or you slept on it wrong, or it's just allergies. You decide to wait it...
5 Early Signs of Hearing Loss You Shouldn’t Ignore
Hearing loss rarely arrives all at once. For most people, it creeps in so slowly that it's easy to blame the mumbling waiter, the bad phone connection, or the noisy room — anything but your own hearing. In fact, research shows that many adults wait years, sometimes...
The Link Between Hearing Loss and Brain Health
When most people think about hearing loss, they picture turning up the TV or missing parts of a conversation. What they don't picture is their brain, and yet that's exactly where some of the most important effects of hearing loss show up. A growing body of research...
Why Restaurants Are So Hard to Hear In — and What Actually Helps
You're out to dinner with people you love, but instead of enjoying the conversation, you're nodding along and hoping you're reacting to the right thing. The clatter of dishes, the music, the tables around you — it all blends into a wall of sound that makes the person...
What If I Have “Total Hearing Loss” In One of My Ears? (And What is a CROS System?)
But, in some patients, hearing in one ear will diverge from the other. This can result from a host of otologic issues, including viral infection of the ear, physical trauma to the ear, and of unknown origin (medically diagnosed as “idiopathic hearing loss,” which...