If your hearing isn’t what is used to be, you’re hardly alone – according to the Hearing Loss Association of America, roughly one in five adults suffer from some degree of hearing loss. To think of it another way, this ...
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The Three Main Types of Ear Infection
Like every other part of the body, the ears are vulnerable to hostile invasions of bacteria and viruses. Ear infections are a frequent occurrence, especially among young children. In fact, infections of the ear are the second most prevalent illness ...
Read More »Keeping Your Ears Pain-free While Flying
While air travel is certainly a staple of modern times, the sheer amount of air traffic might surprise you. According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), over 8 million people fly on a daily basis. With so many people ...
Read More »Printing the Body: How 3D Printers Are Changing Medicine
People associate printers with things like photographs and office documents, but can you imagine special printers used to produce physical replicas of body parts? That wasn’t a typo – there may come a time when doctors are able to print ...
Read More »Microchips: A New Kind of Hearing Aid
Along with medicinal drugs, medical technology has improved by leaps and bounds over the last several decades. In the past several decades, devices such as MRIs, CT scanners and ultrasound machines have become commonplace in hospitals. Even today, medical science ...
Read More »How Playing an Instrument Preserves the Mind
For millions of Americans, there is nothing more enjoyable than spending hours shredding on guitar, slapping bass guitar strings or wailing away on a drum kit. Furthermore, many more would pick up an instrument if only they had the patience, ...
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