Hearing Loss

Back in August, we heralded their arrival: that’s when the FDA granted final approval for the sale of over-the-counter hearing aids. With the promise of a competitive market, leading to more hearing aid options at reduced prices, it’s been anticipated that access to over-the-counter hearing aids will allow millions of…

It’s been a long time in the works, but the reality of over-the-counter, non-prescription hearing aids is finally about to materialize. Having granted final approval to these new devices, the FDA has now opened the door to an entirely new market of hearing aids that will be accessible, available, and…

If you’ve never experienced it, consider yourself lucky. But for the more than 749 million people worldwide who suffer from the ringing, buzzing, pulsing noises that they hear inside their ears or head (with no corresponding external noise that anyone else can hear), the experience of tinnitus is one that…

None of us needs a reminder of how prevalent falls can be as you get on in years, or how fearful you can become if you’ve had a bad fall. As you’ve previously read, there are myriad reasons why a person can fall. Whether due to balance problems, leg weakness,…

It’s definitely one of the less pleasant aspects of growing older: Slowly but surely when you’re in a crowd or watching tv, you realize you’re not hearing everything being said. Maybe you miss every third or fourth word; Maybe it sounds like everyone is mumbling; Maybe you’ve started reading lips…

You may find people chuckling at you when you ask for the tv to be turned louder, or you ask, for the 80th time, “Can you repeat that?” But hearing loss is no joking matter and it’s largely an untreated condition in the United States. After heart disease and arthritis,…