Hearing International

Last week we discussed the general topic of Whales and their hearing, but there is another chapter to this story that combines whales, their hearing and Audiology. This week Hearing International looks at the Blue Whale, the largest living animal in the world today.  These mammals weigh up to 190 tons (380,000 pounds) and measure up to 89 feet (27 meters) long. Despite their size, whales

  Ahab pursued one in Moby Dick. The biblical Jonah was swallowed by one. As children we were awed by Geppetto being swallowed by one.  Nowadays, millions of people hop on a boat or gather on shore just to see one. Indeed, whales, those mammoth sea creatures that roam the ocean deep from the tip of South Africa to the edges

It seems that young parents are at least protecting their children from high stadium noise levels.  Most spectators and concert attendees are not as lucky as the son of New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees at the Super Bowl or Gweneth Paltrow’s daughter at the Live 8 concert.  Most of us on our way to the ballgame are thinking hot dogs and beer and not

No matter the country, sports are a huge part of people’s daily lives. The incredible popularity of various sports has made them a very big business, and the most elite teams and the most successful franchises have built incredibly  large stadiums to hold the millions of adoring fans who loyally follow their favorite teams. These stadiums have become an essential component

In the past couple of weeks (Part I and Part II) we have been reviewing Diabetes.  This week, in Part III, Hearing International will look at the connection of diabetes with hearing loss. As noted previously, patients with diabetes usually have a myriad of serious medical complications.   The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) indicates that the majority of adults with diabetes experience cardiovascular disease risk

A worldwide problem among patients with diabetes is the myriad of serious medical complications that often accompany the disease. Most adults with diabetes have cardiovascular disease risk factors such as hypertension and high cholesterol.  The risk for adverse cardiovascular outcomes, such as stroke or a fatal cardiac event, is two to four times higher among adults with diabetes than those without.

Recently, diabetes has been linked to hearing loss.  Thus, audiologists need to become familiar with this disorder and how it affects the auditory mechanism.  This week Hearing International looks at the history of diabetes (click the link for a History of Diabetes Video) and how we came to know the disease. Diabetes is one of the first diseases described in written

Stardate  – March 27, 2013……… “Space… the Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.” Many of us around the world grew up glued to the television between 1966 and 1969 watching the voyages of

You may recall that last April Hearing International called our readers’ attention to an organization making a major difference to the hearing impaired across the globe.  The Coalition for Global Hearing Health (CFGHH) was first organized in March 2009, bringing together hearing health care professionals working in low resource communities around the world.  Their stated purpose is to:     Advocate for policies pertinent to hearing health care practices in

In the summer of 1996, I was invited to Oticon Headquarters in Copenhagen to conduct demonstrations on how to take CIC impressions.  Although it’s routine these days, it was very new then and the audiologists were interested in how to take these impressions.  They were  actually called “deep canal” impressions, requiring some skills that were not usually acquired by audiologists at the time. Oticon had an interest