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  New Study Provides First Guidelines For Safe Levels Of IPod Music Listening

  October 19, 2006 — A new analysis of iPods and other portable, digital music players by researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Children's Hospital in Boston has produced the first-ever detailed ... > full story
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  New York Subway Noise Levels Can Result In Hearing Loss For Daily Riders

  October 12, 2006 — In a new survey of noise levels of the New York City transit system, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health found that exposure to noise levels in subways have the ... > full story
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  Vision And Hearing Loss Often Occur Together In Older Age

  October 10, 2006 — Older adults with vision loss may be more likely to also have hearing loss, and the opposite appears true as well, according to a report in the October issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, one of the ... > full story
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  Study Identifies Part Of Brain Responsible For Tone Deafness

  September 29, 2006 — A new study has discovered that the brains of people suffering from tone-deafness are in fact lacking in white matter. The study published in the current issue of Brain was conducted by a team of ... > full story
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  St. Jude Finds Clues To Hearing Loss From Chemotherapy

  September 23, 2006 — Children with cancer who suffer hearing loss due to the toxic effects of chemotherapy might one day be able to get their hearing back through pharmacological and gene therapy, thanks to work done ... > full story
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  Risk Factors Identified For Hearing Loss In Children With Bacterial Meningitis

  September 18, 2006 — Researchers have identified several risk factors that are associated with the development of hearing loss in children with bacterial meningitis, according to a study in the September issue of ... > full story
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  Early Hearing Tests Improve Children's Recovery From Meningitis

  September 18, 2006 — Hearing loss and its impact in social interactions can be potentially minimized in children with bacterial meningitis through early ... > full story
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  Can Hearing Voices In Your Head Be A Good Thing?

  September 14, 2006 — Psychologists have launched a study to find out why some people who hear voices in their head consider it a positive experience while others find it ... > full story
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  Sound Understanding Of Indoor Acoustics Could Make Hearing Easier

  September 8, 2006 — An innovative technique that, for the first time, accurately measures exactly how sound behaves in "real-world" situations is now under development -- and could improve acoustics in buildings ranging ... > full story
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  Hormone-Replacement Therapy Hurts Hearing, Study Finds

  September 5, 2006 — The largest study ever to analyze the hearing of women on hormone-replacement therapy has found that women who take the most common form of HRT have a hearing loss of 10 to 30 percent more compared ... > full story

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