Children can develop hearing loss at any age due to ear infections, illnesses such as measles or meningitis, head injuries, or exposure to loud noise. Adolescents are particularly at risk because of ...

Proteins long known to be essential for hearing have been hiding a talent: they also act as gatekeepers that shuffle fatty molecules across cell membranes. When this newly discovered function goes ...

Ears are strange, not only in their convoluted appearance but especially because, despite their extraordinary value as hearing organisms—and both hearing and sight are highly esteemed senses—they have ...

We often take hearing for granted, but experts say many wait too long to get tested — even as their hearing starts to fade.

Broadcast Retirement Network's Jeffrey Snyder discusses ways to maintain your hearing in the New Year with Towson University's Julie A. Norin, Au.D., CCC-A. And you're joining us from afar, so ...

This year’s World Hearing Day theme, from communities to classrooms: hearing care for all children, highlights the importance ...

A surprising new function of essential hearing proteins may explain why some genetic mutations and common antibiotics lead to permanent deafness.

In the US, about 48 million people, including both children and adults, have some degree of hearing loss, and it's increasingly common as people get older. That's why around 6% of the US adult ...

I learned the hard way how to avoid hearing damage when using earbuds. Here’s what the audiologists I spoke with said you can do to prevent it.

It found ear piece use accompanied by immediate after-effects more than doubled an officer’s risk of having tinnitus.

A Chicago-area couple was on the hook for almost $8,000 in deposits and financing for a hearing aid that they say didn't work properly. The ABC7 I-Team investigated the dispute and uncovering similar ...