Your Hearing Health is Fundamental to Your Overall Quality of Life It is impossible to get an exact cunt, but experts estimate somewhere between 35 & 45 million Americans live with a detectable degree of hearing loss. That is more people than diabetes or cancer, somewhere around 14% of the total population aged 18 & above. It affects a greater …
A Quiet Pandemic Far more people are impacted by hearing loss than you are likely to imagine. In the US, about 13% of the population suffers from it to some detectable degree and this percentage increases significantly with age. Less than three out of every 1,000 babies are born with congenital hearing loss. But over 6% of everyone between the …
What Exactly Is Tinnitus? Tinnitus is the persistent impression that a sound is present when it is not in fact present in the room. Specialists estimate that at least one in ten adults in the U.S. is affected by tinnitus, but some think the real number might be closer to 50 million people, more like one in every six. And …
Why is It So Tricky For Someone to Notice When They Start To Lose Their Hearing All kinds of things require regular upkeep and you don’t think twice about it. When you change the oil in your car, they tuck a little sticker up in the corner of your windshield to remind you of the mileage or the date when …
Hearing and Hearing Loss Disabling hearing loss is far more common than most people are likely to assume. Though less than three out of every babies born in the US have some kind of congenital hearing loss, this percentage increases steadily with age. In fact, by the time we are surveying people aged 75 and above, we find an astonishing …
What Exactly is Tinnitus? Tinnitus is the relentless impression that you are hearing a sound that is not really there in your environment. Strange as it may seem, nearly one in six Americans live with it. That’s 50 million people. Most frequently people describe this sound as “ringing in your ears” but descriptions range from whistling, roaring, hissing, buzzing, chirping, …
Hearing health is health plain and simple. There is no version of a healthy you that does not include health hearing. And there is no version of you that lives a fulfilled and satisfied life without your health. We may often take our health for granted. It is so easy to overlook how much of our joy and even our …
Why Take The Risk? Did you know that more than 1 out of every 20 deaths in the United States is the result of an accident? Accidents are the cause for almost 30 million Emergency Room visits every year, meaning almost one in 10 people will go to the emergency room for an accident. of course there are innumerable causes …
November is American Diabetes Month Every November The American Diabetes Association celebrates American Diabetes Month. This is an annual opportunity for the millions of Americans who live with diabetes to raise awareness about what it is really like to live with it and to share information about how they manage their conditions. Millions of people are at risk of catching …
The Americans with Disabilities Act The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), signed into law in 1990, legally protects the rights of the hearing impaired. It comprehensively protects the civil rights of people with disabilities in a vast range of public life including the workplace, local and federal governmental services, transportation, public accommodations and telecommunications. These protections fall into three main …
