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.
Hearing Loss and Health Care
Does having hearing loss lead to less satisfied health-care consumers. Researchers from Johns Hopkins asked this specific question…
Conductive Hearing Loss and Speech Intelligibility
Chronic otitis media early in childhood is often voiced as a concern for speech-language delay, though the research…
Noise-Induce Hearing Loss (NIHL) in Birds?
Researchers from the Institute of Biology Leiden is investigating potential noise-induced hearing losses (NIHL) in birds that reside…
Yes Hearing Aids, No Dementia, Depression, and Falls
We have heard the concerning connections between untreated hearing loss and a host of other health conditions. There…
Pure-Tone Average and Speech-in-Noise
The pure-tone average (PTA) of 500, 1000, 2000 Hz has long been used as a calculation for hearing…
Trapping the Tiniest Sound
The physics of sound just took a quantum leap forward. Phonons are the smallest unit of the vibrational…
