Spring can be such a beautiful, hopeful, time of year. Not only do you hear birdsong every sunny morning, but you hear the neighborhood children out playing after a long winter spent indoors, the warm breeze ruffling through the grass, the buzzing of the bees, and a...
What is APD? For some individuals, hearing difficulties can go beyond the loss of acuity at certain pitches. In fact, some individuals with "normal hearing" results on our traditional hearing test can still exhibit significant struggle hearing in their everyday life. Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) was...
As you finish up (or start!) your annual spring cleaning chores, consider taking care of your ears at the same time! Spring cleaning is the time to start with a clean slate; if you have a hearing aid, its a good time to call your...
Batteries seem pretty straight forward to the functioning of a hearing aid: you put a new one in, the hearing aid works. When the hearing aid is not working, first thought is that it needs a new battery. Most people don't think of hearing aid...
Beth & Sarah got caught on camera by Snap Halifax last week. They were doing hearing screenings at the Berkeley for May - Speech & Hearing month!...
The field of audiology began to interest me as a student at Acadia University. My degree at Acadia was a Bachelor of Kinesiology with a minor in Psychology. This involved lots of papers, research and lectures on anatomy, physiology, individuals with disabilities and the role...
The routine usage of acetaminophen and ibuprofen has recently been linked to permanent hearing damage. A large scale research of 64,000 women found that women who used Ibuprofen 6+ days a week had an increase in risk for hearing loss of 24%, while those who...
Smoking has been associated with many negative health effects, and one of the lesser known side effects of nicotine is hearing loss. Smokers are nearly 70% more likely to suffer from hearing loss than non-smokers, and exposure to second hand smoke doubles the risk of...
Your little blue pills may have some side effects you didn't expect. One of these side effects may include rapid, sudden hearing loss. Viagra (and other similar performance enhancing drugs) have been linked to 47 cases of rapid, sudden hearing loss in a UK study (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lary.21450/abstract)...
