Many health-related measurements are familiar to people, like perfect vision being represented as 20/20. However, how is healthy hearing quantified? Presented with the results of a hearing test, most ...

Putting aside their exorbitant cost, the trouble with prescription hearing aids is the prescription. Find a doctor. Get an appointment. Sit in a waiting room. Suffer through an hour of testing before ...

This presents difficulties, as the patient might respond to the accidental stimulation of the non-test ear, resulting in the stored threshold being better than it would be if the signal came from its ...

A congressionally mandated study by the Institute of Medicine assessed noise-induced hearing loss and tinnitus associated with military service from World War II to the present, the effects of noise ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- After working in hospitals and large private practices, experienced audiologists Zhanneta Shapiro and Stella Fulman, who both hold doctorates in audiology, felt Staten Island ...

If you seem to be turning up the volume on all your devices, have a constant ringing sound in your ears, or can’t hear your friends at a noisy restaurant, it may be time to schedule a hearing test.