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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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Researchers Pinpoint Possible Way to Prevent Permanent Hearing Loss Caused by Common Childhood Cancer Drug (Yuganov Konstantin/shutterstock.com)

Researchers Pinpoint Possible Way to Prevent Permanent Hearing Loss Caused by Common Childhood Cancer Drug

Amit Bhavsar from University of Alberta and his colleagues have identified a receptor in cells that could be…

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Study Finds No Association Between COVID-19 Vaccines and Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss (LookerStudio/shutterstock.com)

Study Finds No Association Between COVID-19 Vaccines and Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss

Between December 14, 2020, and March 2, 2021, the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) received a total…

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