March 2 (UPI) --Researchers found seniors with hearing loss benefit from hearing aids, but that proper fit and instruction from audiologists offers the best outcome for patients. The Indiana ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A smartphone-based device performed comparably to a traditional otoacoustic emission probe for screening. The ...

March 21, 2011 — Screening infants for hearing loss at birth may fail to detect children with later-onset sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) who will require implants, according to new research. Nancy ...

Before a baby’s first babble, language development begins through exposure to voices, music, and everyday sounds. But what happens when that connection to sound is missing from the start? For ...

Newborn hearing screening is the standard of care in hospitals nationwide. The primary purpose of newborn hearing screening is to identify newborns who are likely to have hearing loss and who require ...

Newborn hearing screening has been considered a valuable addition to newborn care over the last decade. The earlier children with hearing loss can be identified, experts say, the sooner they can begin ...

Hearing loss is an etiologically heterogeneous trait with many known genetic and environmental causes. 1 Historically, some environmental causes of hearing loss, such as rubella embryopathy, have been ...