Hearing International

This week at Hearing International food is king…..Great food is enjoyed in many ways, but there are certain sounds that every good cook hears which will surprise those taste buds from far left field.  Spiegel (2014) reminds us that smell or scent plays a critical role in how we perceive food and is often confused with aroma. Scent or smell is

The lowest level of “working together” with other disciplines in the practice of your profession is when professionals make their own decisions, effectively operating in silos.  A middle level of “working together” occurs when individual practitioners make independent decisions about a patient and then consult/communicate with the primary caregiver.  A higher model of interprofessional healthcare refers to a form of

This week’s Hearing International feeds upon a topic that we discussed a couple of weeks ago, the move to over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids.  For some reason those that don’t know the real story, such as Senators Elizabeth Warren and Chuck Grassley and others always feel that the price of hearing aids is too expensive and that is what keeps patients from seeking

This week Hearing International  investigates the pop culture of Binaural Beats.  An Internet search will find a whole culture and industry based on binaural beats which are said to have therapeutical value, with all sorts of effects on the brain.  Since the phenomenon occurs only in binaural listening situations, headphones are necessary to get the effect and putative benefit. According to

This week’s Hearing International discusses an issue that likely will be upon us rather soon in the United States.  In the United States, a large discrepancy exists between the number of people who could benefit from hearing aids and those who actually wear them. Close to 29 million U.S. adults could benefit from using hearing aids, according to National Institute on

To those of us that have had the opportunity to study contemporary hearing, deafness, and its treatment, the products discussed below in this post seem, at first glance, to be quackery.  Initial appearances suggest that these products were a con man’s idea of how to sell a device with no value to the hearing impaired. When considering the times and

Occasionally, a signing deaf person comes to the clinic seeking services and while not totally lost, it is always a challenge for most of us.  The deaf are so very kind to us and want to learn what we must say, but it is difficult to get our messages across. The problem is not a lack of professionalism in working

Most audiologists know that hearing impairment is the most common congenital sensory impairment. It affects up to 1 in 500 newborns, 1 in 300 children by the age of 4, and 1 in 1000 newborns will have genetically inherited hearing loss. In addition to aging, hearing loss in adults stems from exposure to chronic infection, noise, chemicals and other factors

This week at Hearing International we are pleased to have guest author, Dr. Richard Tyler of the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.  Dr. Tyler has been working in the area of tinnitus research and treatment since the late 1970s and discusses how it was then and now and announces the 25th Annual conference on the Management of Tinnitus and

Last week we discussed a bit about marijuana legalization and its general effects. For the effects of marijuana on hearing, however, the jury is still out. Probably due to the drug classification, there has been minimal study of marijuana and its effects on hearing, as well as on some other body functions.  The data available in 2017 are largely anecdotal and