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In a debate over audiology’s future, Metz warns against letting the profit-takers take over

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Two weeks ago, Hearing Views published a post by Brian Taylor, AuD, entitled “Let’s make hearing aid dispensing less like Cuba and more like Singapore.” In it, Brian suggested some ideas for advancing and modernizing the profession of audiology, specifically the hearing aid aspect of the profession. When he read his friend and fellow audiologist’s Hearing View, Michael J. Metz,

High Lead Levels Connected with Hearing Loss

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Lead poisoning is horrible for many health reasons. It can cause encephalopathy, other brain problems, peripheral nerve problems, delayed neurodevelopment, reduced growth rate in children, bone loss in adults, change in behavior, vision problems, motor deficits, digestive system problems, and kidney problems. It can also lead to death. Heightened lead levels also affect the hearing of young ;people and the not

Best of Hearing Economics: Time for Ruthless Publishers to Walk the Plank

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[This post was originally published at Hearing Economics on January 24, 2012 ] Who are the most ruthless capitalists in the Western world?” Bankers? Oil companies? Health insurers? None of the above; they are actually academic publishers… their monopolistic practices make Walmart look like a corner shop and Rupert Murdoch a socialist. {{1}}[[1]] George Monbiot writing in The Guardian, quoted in The Robber

“Getting looped” was a great investment and a priceless gift to our theater’s patrons

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In the past year or two, there has been a surge of interest in making entertainment venues more accessible to people with hearing loss. Around the country, theaters, meeting places, concert halls, and movie houses have been installing systems that enable people who wear hearing aids to enjoy plays, musical performance, lectures, and movies more than they ever could before.

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Parlez plus fort, Doc, je suis malentendante

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Editor’s Note: We’re grateful to Vibes magazine for this translation of “Speak Up, Doc, I’m Hard of Hearing“, which appeared in the Better Hearing Consumer on November 1, 2011. Vibes is the official publication of the Canadian Hearing Society (CHS), which serves hard of hearing, culturally Deaf, oral deaf, and deafened people, their families and hearing healthcare professionals. C’est un fait, les personnes

The Start of a Tinnitus Support Group

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Editor’s Note: One of the things I love about Tucson is even though it is close to a million people in the metro area, it still feels small town in some ways. Being a Wyoming girl I am nostalgic for the small town feel. Most of the Audiologists and Hearing Aid Dispensers are kind to each other and like to

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To Regulate or Not To Regulate, That is the Question

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The last post on Government regulation introduced gluts and shortages, both undesirable, inefficient and unsustainable–theoretically– in a free market. “Theoretically” because the free market of classical economics is modeled on a world of “complete information, interchangeable goods and services, and lack of market power” — a world that exists only in theory. Laissez-faire{{1}}[[1]]tr: Leave [us] alone.[[1]] gets closer to free market reality

Let’s make hearing aid dispensing less like Cuba and more like Singapore

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By Brian Taylor The year 1959 was memorable for several reasons. After a bitter, protracted fight, Fidel Castro and his band of revolutionaries overthrew the corrupt regime of Fulgencio Batista. Nineteen-fifty-nine was also the year that the nation of Singapore was granted full internal self-government by the British. About that same time, audiologists began conducting many of the assessment procedures

Best of Hearing Health: Keeping Up With The Schedule

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I wrote previously about combining the best of the retail and medical scheduling models to streamline our practices, yet still accommodate emergency appointments. To help solve this problem, our appointment times tend to be longer than other practices and we know those specific patients who need more time. With a simple email or phone call ahead, we are usually able

Drink to Your Health and Longevity if Not Your Hearing: International Coffee Day Enters its 2nd Week

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As promised last week, today’s post concludes our two-week celebration of International Coffee Week by providing an updated table linking coffee/caffeine intake to health effects. The original table appeared in April and you can see that it’s grown quite a bit in only four months. The fly in the ointment continues to be a glaring lack of evidence and information