Older adults lose their ability to hear concrete sounds first, and with this loss come the more difficult aspects of hearing: the fuzzy edges of speech. As your hearing deteriorates, you are likely ...

Researchers identify the Functional-Structural Ratio (FSR) as the biological link between age-related hearing loss and cognitive decline, offering a potential new biomarker for dementia risk.

Hearing loss can be a sign of cognitive decline, and researchers are getting much closer to understanding what links these two processes so closely.

Presbycusis is a prevalent form of age-related hearing loss that also hinders speech recognition. While scientists have linked hearing loss to an increased risk of cognitive decline, the biological ...

Hearing loss can stem from both genetic and non-genetic factors. Genetics contributes to a significant portion of congenital hearing loss in babies. As people age, they may experience a gradual ...

A new systematic review and meta-analysis published in Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery , the official journal of the American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) ...

More than 2.5 million veterans experience some form of hearing loss, and the VA is the largest single  employer of audiologists in the U.S.

A new systematic review and meta-analysis published in Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, the official journal of the American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF), ...

The infamous little blue pill that keeps men up and at ’em may improve a different kind of hardness — hardness of hearing, that is. A new study reports that Viagra has the potential to reverse a ...

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.

Dear Eric: I’m deaf, gradually lost my hearing and got a cochlear implant in December 1994. I wanted to respond to “ Hearing Jokes ”, a person with hearing loss whose hearing-impaired siblings staged ...