A recent study published in the Korean Journal of Family Medicine revealed that osteoporosis may link to hearing impairment, with new findings indicating this association being ...

Doctors may diagnose hearing loss using a range of techniques, such as audiometry tests, brainstem auditory evoked response tests, and otoacoustic emissions tests. Hearing loss can affect one or both ...

Regeneron’s gene therapy for a profound form of deafness affecting children, DB-OTO, has shown the first signs that it can improve hearing in a clinical trial. The promising finding, in one child so ...

Hearing aids did not lead to any significant differences in cognitive testing among older patients with moderate hearing loss ...

A new study examining music habits among cochlear implant users has found that better hearing ability with the implant—as measured by standard speech tests—significantly correlates with increased time ...

Every fall, dozens of maple and oak trees in my neighborhood shed their leaves. Thus begins the constant drone of gas-powered leaf blowers every day through early December. The noise is by far the ...

While there is currently no cure for Alzheimer's disease, a new breakthrough involving a specific frequency of sound and a group of elderly monkeys has sparked hope among researchers. The team from ...

A new scientific study is giving fresh hope in the fight against Alzheimer's disease by using something very simple sound. Researchers say a special sound frequency may help the brain remove harmful ...

In the Higher English Critical Reading assessment, you will be asked to comment on examples of language in an extract from a Scottish text you have previously studied (and elsewhere in the text).