GERIATRIC HEALTH ASSESSMENT AND HEARING LOSS

Geriatric hearing loss. Understanding the causes and providing appropriate treatment.

Opioid Drugs and Sensorineural Hearing Loss

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Pseudoexfoliation Syndrome and Sensorineural Hearing Loss

Introduction: Pseudoexfoliation syndrome (PXS) occurs due to the deposition of extracellular fibrillar materials on the anterior chamber of the eye. This syndrome has been considered to be part of a systemic disease with the potential involvement of the inner ear called sensoroneural hearing loss (SNHL).  In this study, we aimed on evaluating SNHL within PXS patients in Iran to compare them wi...

Childhood Hearing Health: Educating for Prevention of Hearing Loss

Introduction The presence of noise in our society has attracted the attention of health professionals, including speech-language pathologists, who have been charged along with educators with developing hearing conservation programs in schools. Objective To describe the results of three strategies for awareness and hearing preservation in first to fourth grades in public elementary schools. Meth...

Hearing health and care: the need for improved hearing loss prevention and hearing conservation practices.

Hearing loss affects 31 million Americans, particularly veterans who were exposed to harmful levels of noise during military functions. Many veterans also receive treatment with ototoxic medications, which may exacerbate preexisting hearing loss. Thus, hearing loss is the most common and tinnitus the third most common service-connected disability among veterans. Poor implementation of hearing p...