COVID-19 and Your Hearing: What You Need to Know

The novel COVID-19 outbreak changed the field of healthcare forever. Now, researchers are investigating whether the disease has long-term effects even after a patient recovers. One interesting field of study is COVID-19’s potential link to hearing loss. For obvious reasons, this topic has not been a priority, but now some small studies are coming out […]

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Why You Should Accompany Your Significant Other to Their Hearing Check Up

If a loved one has a hearing exam coming up, one of the most useful things you can do for them is to accompany them to the appointment. Here are five reasons why: 1. Many people are nervous about their hearing appointments. Like any other kind of exam, it can cause anxiety, and the prospect […]

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More Links Between Hearing Loss and Cognitive Decline in Elders

We’ve talked before about the important research taking place about hearing loss in older age and associated cognitive decline. Before this research first started coming out, hearing loss was viewed as a mere inconvenience whose symptoms could be treated to whatever satisfactory level the patient was interested in (with a significant number of people never […]

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Working Remotely While Suffering from Hearing Loss

During the current pandemic, many people have managed to hold on to their office jobs by being able to work remotely. Use of teleconferencing services like Zoom, Teams, and Skype has skyrocketed as people try to meet with colleagues and clients virtually. Whether it’s lagging video, poor sound, people covering up their faces as they […]

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