Many people think they’re practicing proper hearing health when they use Q-tips to remove wax from their ears. The truth is that they may be doing more harm than good. Why We Need Earwax It may seem at odds with conventional thought, but earwax (also called cerumen) is actually designed to keep the ear canal […]
Research has found that adults with iron deficiency anemia (IDA) are twice as likely to have hearing loss as the rest of the population. A 2016 study from Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine followed more than 300,000 individuals between the ages of 21-90 and concluded that anemic individuals were twice as likely to develop […]
Although driving is certainly a visual activity, operating a vehicle with hearing loss reveals just how much we depend on our ears to navigate the open road. We rely on our hearing to hear the siren of an emergency vehicle that may still be a block or two away or realize an impatient driver thinks […]
