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What is the Loudest Sound in the World?

In Noise by Julie Raney

Loud sounds can damage your hearing, and the louder the sounds you’re exposed to, the faster you’ll lose your hearing. While it’s not hard to recognize that extremely loud sounds will damage your hearing health, we often don’t realize the …

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When to Get New Hearing Aids

In Hearing Aids by Julie Raney

While audiologists typically recommend replacing hearing aids every three to five years, the appropriate time to consider new hearing aids varies widely. A lot of it depends on your hearing abilities and lifestyle needs. Are your current hearing aids addressing …

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Hearing Aids & Artificial Intelligence

In Hearing Aid Technology by Julie Raney

Hearing technology is changing rapidly, and today’s devices are a vast improvement over hearing aids of just a few years ago. Hearing aids are able to perform complex functions, such as provide the best in seamless connectivity, automatically changing between …

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Ear Candles: Effective or Dangerous?

In Ear Health, Earwax by Julie Raney

For those who are unfamiliar, the idea of placing a candle in one’s ear sounds like a wacky idea. Yet some ancient traditions and current naturopathic and homeopathic medicine sometimes recommends just this practice. Perhaps you have tried ear candles …

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Hearing Loss and Sleep

In Hearing Loss, Sleep, Uncategorized by Julie Raney

Our senses are intimately connected to the ability to get restful sleep, but the relationship between them is quite mysterious. Why is it that we are able to sleep through distracting sounds sometimes, but an alarm can wake us up? …