According to the Blinded Veterans Association, approximately 34% of those injured by IED blasts suffer dual sensory loss of vision and hearing in addition to the well-documented physical wounds such as loss of limbs and other permanent physical disabilities.
Etymotic's hearing protection products were honored with a Design and Engineering Innovations Award in the Health and Wellness category at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show and the prestigious 2010 Safe-in-Sound Award for decades of innovation in hearing loss prevention from the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the National Hearing Conservation Association.
It's design is intended to minimize problems caused by loss of sight or hearing or reduced mobility with gadgets such as telephones with extra-large easy-to-read numbers, voice-activated appliances, locks operated by fingerprint scanners and talking kitchen scales.
Passive smoking increased their risk of hearing loss across all sound frequencies by about a third.
The Hearing Loss Association of America ( www.hearingloss.org) has links to dozens of sites with information on finding hearing professionals and advocacy groups, as well as sites for specific groups, such as musicians and veterans.
To those of you that suffer from some form of hearing loss, take comfort in the fact that many, many great people have succeeded in monumental ways without normal hearing, or any hearing for that matter.
Paul Breckell, chief executive of Action on Hearing Loss, said the new EU standard is important because increasing numbers of young people listen to music through a personal music player.
It may be compounded by physical decline such as loss of driving ability, decreased hearing or vision.
The more traditional method of measuring hearing loss, the distraction test, requires a baby to sit upright on the mother's lap, responding to sound without seeing the source, and therefore cannot be done before 8 months.
He said people with hearing loss used a hearing aid in only 15% of cases in the US "so it is very undertreated".
Perhaps this explains, at least in part, why 75% to 80% of adults with hearing loss do not get hearing aids, according to a recent study done by Virginia Ramachandran, a senior staff audiologist in the Division of Audiology of the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.
The underlying lawsuits (there were 26 of them at one point) erupted after lawyers noticed news articles about potential hearing loss and headsets and filed suits on behalf of millions of Motorola and Plantronics customers.
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Married people were also at higher risk of noise-induced hearing loss compared to non-married people.
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It is understood the issues of equal pay and hearing loss claims are a sticking point.
Twelve guides will aid people with both sight and hearing loss with a range of issues, including the use of computers, telephones and public transport.
When private insurance does pay, it typically covers the cost of an exam to assess hearing loss, and that's about it.
Whether hearing loss is truly a cause of cognitive decline or merely a risk factor associated with the ageing brain, the decline of cognitive abilities into dementia is set to explode financial models of health and social care in Western societies and requires urgent attention.
More direct evidence from studies of experiments with animals and humans, however, suggests that we may have to alter the very concept of what we mean by hearing loss, and that current tests - particularly pure-tone audiometry which measures our ability to perform "pin-drop" hearing - may not be sufficient to pick up the early signs of a decline in hearing function.
Considering the number of boomers who spent their youth going to loud rock shows without earplugs, and the generations coming up behind whose ears have been abused by years of booming Beats by Dre, hearing loss is endemic.
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Conductive hearing loss can often be caused by malformations of the external or middle ear or by severe middle ear infections.
Overall, nearly 700 people, or 13.2 percent of the sample, had noise-induced hearing loss in Djalilian's study.
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Mr Newton said he was "completely oblivious" to the dangers until two years ago when he experienced temporary hearing loss after attending two music festivals in the space of a month.
The hearing started an hour after the Labor Department reported the loss of 533, 000 jobs in November, the biggest loss in nearly 34 years.
The reduction in performance on these tasks associated with a 25-decibel hearing loss (classified as "mild") was equivalent to an ageing effect of seven years in cognitive abilities.
Individuals may suffer from high levels of fatigue, muscle or heart weakness, diabetes, strokes, or vision and hearing loss.
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