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Dear Readers: During this holiday season, the editors at Hearing Health & Technology Matters (HHTM) are taking some time off. However, we are not leaving you without anything to read on our blog this week. Instead, we are publishing a special holiday edition filled with what we call our Readers’ Choice. Our Readers’ Choices featured this week are the posts

I was recently prescribed a new medication by my doctor but before I began taking it, I wanted to understand if it could harm my hearing. I already have a moderate progressive hearing loss, so I do everything I can to protect the hearing I still have.  “I have hearing loss so am wondering if this drug is ototoxic?” I

Editor’s Note: Today’s post is written by Blake Cadwell, a blogger with mild to moderate hearing loss. In this post, he shares his experiences heading back to an in-person office with hearing aids.   What I’ve Learned So Far    I got my first pair of hearing aids in mid-2020, right around my 30th birthday. I had waited nearly two

By Stephen O. Frazier With the Food and Drug Administration finally announcing the long overdue proposed standards for over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids it appears the answer to the hearing aid cost conundrum may soon be made known. It came as a surprise to some that some of the standards developed apply not just to OTC devices but also to prescription

During my last trip to the hair salon, I ran into a fellow parent at my children’s school. Both of our daughters had recently started college and we had much to discuss. – How was drop-off? – Do you hear from her? – How is your younger child coping with the transition? The questions were endless, but the conversation was

Good news from the FDA this week—our first look at proposed rules for over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids. The rules look promising, allowing for flexibility in product design and distribution method combined with needed regulation and labeling to ensure product safety. Hearing Loss Association of America, the largest consumer organization representing people with hearing loss in the United States, issued the

“I love coming to the Walk so I can see other people like me,” one adorable hearing-aid-clad 10-year-old girl declared to the socially distanced crowd gathered in Riverside Park for the annual New York City Walk4Hearing. Her joy was as evident as it was contagious. I found myself thinking the same thing. We all want to feel like we belong. 

Lindy is quite unlike your average sexagenarian: whether she’s jet setting across the globe in pursuit of her modelling career or dressing up in her 14th costume of the day, the Anglo-Italian-Irish actress and model’s life is a veritable whirlwind. More to the point, so is she – full of vim and vigour, she talks excitedly and passionately about her

Ah, summer! The warm weather and light breezes mark my favorite time of the year. I love swimming, and hiking and watching the fireflies blink on and off in the darkness after the sun goes down. It is a time for vacations, and laziness and long evenings on the porch with family and friends. But at the end of each

Walking home from our first post-Covid social event, I said to my husband, “Well, that was fun, but exhausting.” He agreed, “We are out of practice socializing with people we don’t know.” “Yes,” I replied, “and I am out of practice trying to hear them!” My head was still spinning from the mental effort it took to focus on the