The media often feature stories about new discoveries in hearing and balance health care. You can find selected articles below. For the latest news from the Academy, please click on News from the Academy. For media articles about the Academy and its members, please click on Academy in the News.
Turn Up the Fun, Not the Volume! WHO’s New Guidelines Protect Gamers’ Hearing
In 2024, the open-access journal BMJ Public Health reported that video gamers worldwide were likely risking irreversible hearing loss…
Cholesterol in Adults
Carroll et al. (2024) used data from the August 2021–August 2023 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to…
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…
Prevalence of Diabetes in Adults
Because audiologists may see patients with diabetes, a data brief from the National Center for Health Statistics may…
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…
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)….
