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Life Expectancy in the United States After COVID-19 (Hyejin Kang/shutterstock.com)

Life Expectancy in the United States After COVID-19

This past year was full of news reports regarding hospitalizations and death rates related to COVID-19, both here…

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Babies with Hearing Loss Could Also Benefit from Being Tested for Balance Problems (Oksana Kuzmina/shutterstock.com)

Babies with Hearing Loss
Could Also Benefit from Being
Tested for Balance Problems

It is an established fact that infants and children with hearing loss need intervention very quickly after identification…

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Experts Call for New Standards to Prevent Noise-Induced Hearing Loss in Younger Generations (Vectorium/shutterstock.com)

Experts Call for New Standards to Prevent Noise-Induced Hearing Loss in Younger Generations

Children, teenagers, and young adults are listening to many hours of music daily at volumes exceeding the globally…

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Implants Are Not Just for the Cochlea Anymore (BlurryMe/shutterstock.com)

Implants Are Not Just for the Cochlea Anymore

Severe bilateral vestibular loss (BVL), regardless of etiology, often is accompanied by significant, chronic symptoms of general imbalance,…

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Government Accountability Office Releases Assessment of COVID-19 Telehealth Flexibilities in Medicare and Medicaid (Nattakorn_Maneerat/shutterstock.com)

Government Accountability Office Releases Assessment of COVID-19 Telehealth Flexibilities in Medicare and Medicaid

The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) released testimony on May 19 regarding their ongoing assessment of COVID-19 flexibilities within the Medicare…

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Sounds of Summer: Brood X (M.A. Kleen/shutterstock.com)

Sounds of Summer: Brood X

By Bre Myers “I feel like I have cicadas in my head” is a regional description of tinnitus I…

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