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The end of the year is usually a time of reflection and appreciation – for how far we have come from the dreaded days of disease that could snuff out a life before it got started and for the contributions to knowledge by those that suffered deafness through disease. Scarlet fever  (also known as Scarlatina), with its pandemics in both Europe

Happy Holidays and Best Wishes for a Happy and Healthy 2017 from all of us at Hearing Health Matters…… especially those of you that follow Hearing International.   The most read post at Hearing International this year was from February 9, 2016.  This post, The Culture of Earrings for Men , was actually a surprise.  We did not expect it to be that

This week at Hearing International we are pleased to have guest author, Dr. Nancy Tye-Murray of Washington University, St. Louis Missouri. Dr. Tye-Murray has been working in the area of Aural Rehabilitation for many years and now has designed a new Aural Rehabilitation Program called clEAR™ . —————————————————————————————————————————- In today’s changing hearing healthcare environment, more and more audiologists are adopting the philosophy

While reading this on a computer, there is an excellent chance that you are wearing, or have within reach, a pair of headphones or earbuds.  In the US and some other western cultures, there seems to be a movement to have and use some kind of “ear wear”.  Probably not the ear trumpet from the 1950s pictured here, but something cool,

Each day we all experience sound in the environment.  Many of these sounds are low intensity, satisfying, and others are the mundane sounds of life, such as television, radio, household appliances, cars running, traffic, etc.  Most of these sounds are at very safe levels and do not cause any danger to hearing.  We also know however, that there are loud

While there had been experiments with steam powered road vehicles since the 1700s, they did not succeed commercially as they were cumbersome.  While the steam powered vehicles made their way into locomotives, it was not until electric road vehicles were invented in the 1830s that powered road vehicles became practical.  These first electric cars were powered by non rechargeable primary cells and were

Last week we discussed the issue of burnout among clinicians who provide clinical services to patients each day. While there are not a lot of studies that specifically reflect audiology, there is one that was reported in New Zealand.   In the International Audiology Journal, Stevens, Searchfield and Huggard (2012) of The Goodfellow Unit of the Department of General Practice and Primary Health

It is tough becoming a clinical audiologist.  These days in the US there are the eight years of school, practicum, and  politics required to obtain the credentials to work with hearing impaired patients.  After such a rigorous process, the motivation to find a position and begin a practice to interact with patients each day is seemingly insurmountable.  Audiologists often feel like a “kid in

As we work through the clinic day, we may find ourselves jealous of our patients with those high frequency hearing losses due to concert their attendance.  Often these were the lucky ones with the premier tickets, close to the stage, the musicians, and the speakers as well. As audiologists we now know that those that had the good tickets and those

Tinnitus has long been an issue for many individuals.  In the US and around the world audiologists are treating tinnitus with a myriad of techniques and with variable successes and failures. In the past, tinnitus was thought to be primarily involved in the cochlea and/or the auditory regions of the brain prompting otolaryngologists (ENT Physicians) to tell their tinnitus suffers to “just live with it”