Hearing impairment has emerged as a potential risk factor for Parkinson’s disease, a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that primarily manifests with motor impairments like tremors, rigidity ...

Sensorineural hearing loss happens most often from damage to the hair cells in the inner ear. Other causes include damage to the nerve for hearing, called the auditory nerve, or the brain. It ...

Hearing impairment is an invisible impairment. Accordingly, the barriers of people with hearing impairment have to be clarified with care. Thus, people who were born deaf, for example, face different ...

A woman with a severe hearing impairment has said NHS staff did not take it seriously. Pip Lee, from Bungay, Suffolk, said poor communication during some appointments had left her confused. It ...

In logistic regression analysis, the probability of spontaneous tinnitus was 63% in children with both hearing impairment and TTS and 27% in children without hearing impairment or TTS.

Sawyer Drury, a hearing-impaired junior pitcher, has led Brimfield/Elmwood softball to an 11-2 record, including wins over larger schools. Drury, who communicates using hand gestures and lip ...

Hearing loss severity was linked with cognitive impairment in a study on middle-aged adults. But wearing hearing aids didn’t lower the odds for cognitive impairment, the data showed.

“The Killer’s Game” actor Terry Crews spoke to CNN in an interview about how a long-term, common hearing impairment has helped him master the art of physical comedy.

There may be a link between hearing impairment and an increased risk of developing Parkinson’s according to research led by Lancaster University. This is one of the first studies to examine ...

Most hearing impairment is inherited. Of all types of inherited deafness only one third is present at birth. Another third starts during childhood and the other third only manifests in adulthood.

To qualify for this designation, applicants must demonstrate a hearing loss with a pure tone average of 500, 1,000 and 2,000 hertz of 41 decibels or greater in the better ear, ...