Sunday, February 22, 2009

Latest Stories on Hearing and HIs - February 22nd 2009

iPod Safety: Are Your Earphones Causing Hearing Loss?
TIME - USA
Listen for too high and too long, and you may have to replace those
headphones with hearing aids in the not too distant future.

Hearing aids sold over kin's objection
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
State regulators say the dealer, Timothy Knoell of Atlantic, sold hearing
aids to a man with dementia, even though the customer's daughter asked him
not to. ...

Brewer Player Using Disability To His Advantage
WCSH-TV - Portland,ME,USA
While he can read lips and use sign language to communicate, Billy also
uses a set of hearing aids. He got his first set at the age of 2 and
learned to ...

Letter: Kindness, effort in hearing aid's return
MLive.com - MI,USA
by Violet Jewett | Ypsilanti Last summer I discovered one of my hearing
aids was missing. After waiting and searching for some time I finally
purchased a ...

Utah Children Need Your Used Hearing Aids
eMaxHealth.com - Hickory,NC,USA
For the 150 children born in Utah each year with hearing problems, hearing
aids are critical to the normal development of speech. You can help many of
these ...

Children's health: Help with hearing
The Union of Grass Valley - Grass Valley,CA,USA
By Laura Brown A parent of a child with hearing loss who struggles with the
high cost of hearing aids often must wait up to 18 months to qualify for a
set ...

Study blames brain for hearing loss caused by aging
ABC7Chicago.com - IL, USA
They say this is important because hearing aids don't help all older
adults, and this raises the issue that there are problems going on in the
brain that ...

American ambassador
Southwest Virginia Today - Richlands,VA,USA
Although Ma’sum, who suffers from around 50 percent hearing loss, said
he’s still getting used to the acoustics of the hearing aids, he said
they are ...

Elmore girl gets the help to hear
Port Clinton News Herald - Port Clinton,OH,USA
Brandy's insurance wouldn't cover the digital hearing aids that would best
benefit Courttany. They would only provide analog hearing aids, which
wouldn't ...

All-Star Insider: Allen Iverson's new do? The Answer leaves LeBron ...
The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com - Cleveland,OH,USA
"This is only the second time I have been out in public since I got my
hearing aids," Russell said. "When I thought I was going to be with the
guys from the ...

Bill's World: Drop your pennies, grab your hearing aid
Gaston Gazette - Gastonia,NC,USA
"I have two hearing aids," I tell him, "and I can hear better out of my
left ear than my right." "I also have hearing aids," he tells me, pulling
something ...

Sound of speed: Hearing loss an inevitable part of racecar driving
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA
"I'm the only driver from my [generation] that doesn't wear two hearing
aids." Through years of racing since he was a child, slowly but surely, ...

Please repeat that ...
Malaysia Star - Malaysia
As only a tiny fraction of people who need hearing aids are using them, it
is important to let people understand that there are technologies that
could help ...

Lip service
Malaysia Star - Malaysia
PEOPLE with hearing loss can improve their hearing with hearing aids, but
it is not a substitute for normal, healthy hearing. The following are a few
things ...

These aren't your granddad's hearing aids
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
Barely-there hearing aids these days can be digital, programmed and
remote-controlled, he said. The technology has come a long way from the
brass horns that ...

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