We recommend regular hearing health check-ups for our hearing aid patients to ensure they are hearing as well as possible. A comprehensive hearing aid check-up includes: Annual Audiologic Evaluation. We always compare the results to previous hearing levels. If we...
Is Cigarette Smoking Harmful to Your Hearing?
A five-year study of 4000 subjects published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found smokers were 1.7 times more likely to have a significant hearing loss than non-smokers, after adjusting for age, history of cardiovascular disease, alcohol consumption...
Can Custom Programmed Hearing Aid Amplification Delay the Onset of Dementia and Depression?
Research scientists at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (Lin, 2013) and the National Institute of Health (NIH) have shown that untreated hearing loss (HL) significantly increases the likelihood of dementia, depression or anxiety, and injurious falls in adults. Someone...
Happy Birthday, Beethoven
Hearing Health News This year marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the greatest figures in Western music. He was born in 1770, died in 1827 at the age of 56, and suffered a...