ENT Health Blog
In the United States, hearing loss to some degree affects 20 percent of the total populace, or 48 million people. On average, then, one out of every five people you meet will have hearing loss. For those of you who really want to have an understanding of the condition—or that experience hearing loss themselves and […]
We may take it as a given that our hearing aids are scarcely detectable, can be controlled with our smartphones, and can differentiate between speech and background sound. What we might not realize, however, is that those capabilities are the products of 400 years of experiment, design, and enhancement. Even 5 years ago, hearing aids […]
Envision your life in 2016 with half the stress and double the energy. Who wouldn’t want to have that? While virtually everyone aspires to better health, it’s not a secret that the majority of health-related New Year’s resolutions fail. We are inclined to create resolutions that are too difficult or too complicated—all in the name […]
If you had the opportunity to avoid or lessen the risk of cognitive decline as you grew older, how much would you be willing to pay for it? What would you say to 15 dollars per week? That’s roughly the cost of a professionally-programmed pair of hearing aids, which the newest research shows can decrease […]
Quick question: how many people in the United States suffer from some amount of hearing loss? What was your answer? I’m willing to bet, if I had to guess, that it was well short of the correct answer of 48 million individuals. Let’s try one more. How many people in the US younger than 65 […]