The pituitary is a small bean-shaped gland that sits at the base of the skull, below the brain and behind the nasal sinuses. It is often called the “master gland” because it controls the functions of all the other endocrine glands overseeing growth and development, sex drive and reproductive functions, thyroid function, metabolism, water balance [...]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reached a settlement with California hearing device manufacturer Advanced Bionics LLC and its president and CEO Jeffrey Greiner over alleged violations of federal law. The alleged violations involved the failure to notify the FDA of a change of outside supplier or vendor, which may have exposed patients [...]
Do you wear a hearing aid? Do you sometimes avoid using it because you don’t like the way it looks? A researcher at the University of the West of England is interested in meeting people with hearing impairments who avoid wearing their hearing aids even though they have been prescribed to help with hearing loss. [...]
Pat Phalin learned she had hearing loss at 30, when she volunteered to give hearing tests at her local school. The pupils heard sounds she could not hear. Her husband Larry, a genealogy enthusiast, saw a pattern in his wife’s family history. Her mother, grandfather and great-grandfather had severe hearing loss as adults. One of [...]
The damage caused by an ear infection can lead to preferences for fatty and sugary foods; Tonsillectomies may worsen the problem. Ear infections are a painful rite of passage for many children. New research suggests the damage caused by chronic ear infections could be linked to people’s preference for fatty foods, which increases their risk [...]
The American Academy of Otolaryngolog has released national guidelines about earwax where it says don’t use ear candles to clean earwax. Millions of cerumen-removal procedures are conducted yearly by doctors and this earwax guidelines are designed to help physicians to understand the harm vs. benefit. Below are the earwax national guidelines from The American Academy [...]
A new campaign to help parents of 8- to 12-year-olds teach their children how to avoid hearing loss from overexposure to loud noise was launched today by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), part of the National Institutes of Health. The new campaign, called It’s a Noisy Planet. Protect Their Hearing., [...]
Thousands of Deaf* patients are receiving inadequate healthcare because they are struggling to communicate with healthcare professions, say experts on bmj.com today. There is a basic lack of deaf awareness and appropriate communication support by healthcare professionals, write Michael Paddock and colleagues from Kings College London School of Medicine and South West London and St [...]
Once again, your baby is spiking a fever and tugging at his earlobe, obviously in pain. Your pediatrician confirms what you already knew: another middle ear infection. Only this go-around, instead of taking a “wait and see” approach or prescribing antibiotics, she suggests it might be time to turn to tubes. Ear ventilation tubes reduce [...]
Siemens Hearing Instruments, Inc., a leading manufacturer of hearing instruments in the United States, continues their commitment to personalizing solutions for those with hearing loss. Their new Motion line of hearing instruments were announced at this year’s International Congress of Hearing Aid Acousticians (EUHA) in Leipzig, Germany, from October 15-17, 2008. Motion has been designed [...]
