Dec. 21, 2011
BOSTON–It’s no secret that listening too long and too loud to heavy metal bands like Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, and Black Sabbath will do bad things to your ears. However, a recent paper has implicated another sort of heavy metal in hearing loss among U.S. adolescents. Writing in Archives of Otolaryngolology–Head & Neck Surgery, Josef Shargorodsky, MD, MPH, a researcher