Hearing International

In November 2011,  A.S. ,a senior member of the Unsung Composers site wrote…..”Today, I introduce a Symphony by Japanese composer Mamoru Samuragochi,  who was born in Hiroshima at 1963 is a taught musician. Because he denied contemporary music , so he did not enter University of music.  He suffered migraines since high school, and at age of 35 he completely

Dr. Moe Bergman, a World War II veteran, one of the founders of the profession of Audiology, designer of the first Veteran’s Administration Audiology Clinics (US), the first Executive Officer and former Professor  of Audiology within the Doctoral Program in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences at the City University of New York (CUNY), died on February 20, 2014 in Herzliya, Israel. He was 97. Upon his retirement from

When an audiologist cleans out an ear canal, the patient often coughs.  Since it is a normal part of the process in cerumen management or other procedures, clinicians expect and prepare for these reflexive coughs.  But what causes this cough reflex, and where does it come from? The story begins with Philipp Friedrich Arnold (1803-1890), who was born in Edenkoben at Landau, Germany, in

What do Ray Charles (Click on Ray for a Song) and Stevie Wonder  (Click on Stevie for a song) have in common?  Besides super music, both people were blind, which, according to recent studies, may enhance hearing not only for acuity, but for quality as well.  A few months go, Hearing International published an article about Echolocation where the blind use

In the past, Hearing International reviewed the racial implications of cerumen as well as how it is removed in various parts of the world. So when the story broke about the use of earwax in personal identification, it was a discussion that we could not resist.   Recently scientists from the Monell Center in Philadelphia, PA (USA)  have used analytical organic chemistry  to identify the presence of

If you happened to be wandering the streets of ancient Rome in say 59 BC at dusk on a seaside resort you might be accosted by a slave inviting you to an imperial banquet.  All rich Romans were expected to be fabulous entertainers — the more extravagant their feasts, the more powerful they were perceived to be.  And emperors were obliged to

Most audiologists know that the ability to hear relies upon small sensory cells or “hair cells” in the inner ear.  Many types of commonly acquired hearing loss are the result of damage or death to these delicate hair cells, including noise-induced hearing loss, presbycusis (age-related hearing loss), and ototoxic hearing loss (hearing loss that occurs after a patient is exposed

The protrusion of ears can be a significant problem.  We can all relate to the teasing that results from being  different, especially as teenagers.  Protruding ears  affect about 5% of the general population worldwide and  is the most frequent deformity of the head and neck area.  This week’s Hearing International will review the problem and present a new surgical implant procedure for its

In a couple of months it will be 41 years since the young future editor of Hearing International  first met Dr. Marion P. Downs, then a Professor of Otolaryngology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver.  That fateful day she had been assigned to be one of my internship supervisors,  responsible for a very green aspiring audiologist.  Little did I

The causes of hearing impairment are numerous, but if there were a pill that would slow the aging process of the inner ear and make it less susceptible to hearing loss from noise exposure, hearing losses could be reduced in well over 60% of the worldwide hearing impaired population. A few months ago, Hearing International ran a post entitled the Morning After Pill that discussed ongoing research