Distortion-product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs) provide a window into real-time cochlear mechanical function. Yet, relationships between the changes in DPOAE metrics and auditory sensitivity are still poorly understood.
According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, four million workers go to work each day in damaging noise, leaving employees at high risk for hearing loss or damage.
For a second year, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), in cooperation with the National Hearing Conservation Association (NHCA), is excited to announce a dedicated supplemental issue of the International Journal of Audiology.
Pro Tech Technologies, Inc. today introduced its NoiseBuster® Communications Module for use with portable communications devices such as mobile phones, smartphones, iPhones, personal computers, iPads and two-way radios.
Although 1 in 6 U.S. adolescents has high-frequency hearing loss, a new report from the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital shows that many parents don’t think their teens are at risk.
Nearly a fifth of all Americans 12 years or older have hearing loss so severe that it may make communication difficult, according to a new study led by Johns Hopkins researchers and published in the Nov. 14 Archives of Internal Medicine.