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Common Issues with Ears & How to Treat Them
Your ears play an important role in your health and quality of life. Because of this, it’s important to care for them. Below we review common issues that can afflict your ears and what treatments…
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How Does Cystic Fibrosis Treatment Affect Hearing?
Certain medications are ototoxic, which means they can damage your ears. This damage can lead to problems like tinnitus, issues with balance and dizziness, and hearing loss. A group of antibiotics often used in patients…
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What is High-Frequency Hearing Loss?
If you feel like you’re struggling to understand conversations at work or when dining out at Main Street Kitchen & Bar, it may be a sign you have high-frequency hearing loss. This type of hearing…
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Are Seniors with Hearing Loss at a Higher Risk for Complications After Surgery?
Older people with hearing loss appear more likely to experience difficulties after having surgery. New Study Shows Surgery Risk for Patients with Hearing Loss A study published earlier this year examined whether older patients with…
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Why Do Some Antibiotics Cause Hearing Loss?
While antibiotics are necessary, life-saving drugs, some also carry the risk of hearing loss. The fact that these medications can cause damage to the ear makes them ototoxic. What Is Ototoxicity? If a medication is…
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Habits You Should Quit for Your Hearing Health
We are now one month into 2022, which means many resolutions have been pushed to the sideline. Even if you were not able to start writing your great American novel or make it to the…
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Tuning Into Hidden Hearing Loss
You notice that you’re starting to have trouble following conversations. Especially when you’re out somewhere loud or with a lot of background noise, like grabbing a burger with friends at Yard House. You prefer quiet…
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How to Maintain Hearing Health with Diabetes
Diabetes is an illness that occurs when your blood sugar is too high. If not managed, uncontrolled diabetes can lead to cardiovascular problems, kidney failure, nerve damage, amputation and can even be fatal. There are…
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Did You Know October Is Audiology Awareness Month?
Do you enjoy listening to the sounds of leaves crunching under your feet at Heather Farm Park, the crackle of a bonfire or the tweeting of birds? If you have hearing loss, you may not…
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Can a Cold Hurt Your Hearing?
While it is still technically summer until September 22, the prevalence of Halloween decorations and pumpkin spice lattes is a sign that it is unofficially fall. This means cold and flu season is coming. In…