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Audiology Eggcorns: When Misheard Words Take on a Life of Their Own

How many times have you heard a patient use an incorrect word during speech recognition testing? Hundreds? A…

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Prevalence of Diabetes in Adults

Because audiologists may see patients with diabetes, a data brief from the National Center for Health Statistics may…

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Can Animals Learn Other Animals’ Languages? 

Animals do not actually use language, as we humans think of it. Language is human-specific. However, animals communicate within…

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Man Loses “Land Legs” in Rare Syndrome

An article published by Medical Daily (Sunny, 2025) described one man’s experience with Mal de Debarquement Syndrome (MdDS)….

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Teachers and Hearing-Health Care

Most adult-onset hearing losses are associated with aging (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, 2023). Retirement ages…

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Chronic Dizziness Tied to Stress and Depression

Researchers from the Department of Psychiatry at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH) conducted a study of 4,147…

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