by Bruce Brown | September 14, 2020 | Health
Health officials recommend that people wear masks to help reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus. However, this prudent practice can make it harder to understand what others are saying. People with normal hearing often attend to facial expressions and lip movement to...
by Bruce Brown | August 26, 2020 | General News, Health
New hearables continue to hit the market. There are hearables designed for listening to music, for hands-free phone calls, or streaming videos, podcasts, and audible books. We have our eyes – and ears – focused on wearable devices that help people with...
by Bruce Brown | March 8, 2019 | Health, Medical
Hearing loss affects about 15% of U.S. adults 18 and older, about 37.5 million people, according to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD). The incidence of hearing loss increases with age, topping out at 50% of people 75 and...
by Bruce Brown | February 21, 2018 | General News, Health
Battlefields, rock concerts, loud cars, construction zones, and industrial plants all have something in common: the potential to cause or worsen tinnitus. Tinnitus usually builds gradually in our noisy world until it reaches the point where a human realizes she or he...
by Alfred Poor | August 22, 2017 | Fitness, General News, Health, Medical
Rumors of the death of digital wearables are greatly exagerated. The wearables industry is still a frothy, exciting, and dynamic phenomenon, with fast-paced change, fierce competition, and innovation that continues to receive a lot of attention and funding from...