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6 min ago | Your News Now

Donation helps hearing-impaired 5th grader

Hearing-impaired Drew Guardado is a fifth grader in Round Rock. His teacher's words used to come across as a whisper, but not anymore thanks to a generous donation.

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3 hrs ago | Blackburn Citizen

Retired Blackburn electrical engineer given hearing payout

Allan Dewhurst, 68, of Revidge, spent 14 years working next to industrial hammers, high-pitched extrusion machines, high-speed motors and winding machines at Netlon Ltd, which was taken over as Tensar International Ltd, and at British Northrop Ltd.

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7 hrs ago | Medical News Today

Cochlear Implants Can Be Safe And Effective For Kidney Transplant Patients Who Lose Their Hearing

Main Category: Ear, Nose and Throat Also Included In: Transplants / Organ Donations Article Date: 13 Feb 2012 - 4:00 PST Some people who undergo organ transplants lose their hearing as a side-effect of the antibiotics and immunosuppressive drugs they have to take.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Kidney Cancer, Otolaryngology, Medical College of Georgia

11 hrs ago | PR-inside.com

Emerald to publish new editions of seminal audiology textbooks

United Kingdom, February 2012 - Emerald Group Publishing Limited is pleased to announce that it will publish new editions of the bestselling and seminal textbooks An Introduction to the Psychology of Hearing, which is available now, and An Introduction to the Physiology of Hearing to be published in August 2012.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Europe, World News, United Kingdom

14 hrs ago | International Business Times

Vodafone 155 Costs A 25: Targets Senior UK Citizens with Physical Disabilities [PREVIEW]

Vodafone has released a new phone for senior citizens in the UK called "Vodafone 155". The device is a basic phone and has been specially designed for elderly people with physical disabilities such as limited dexterity, vision or hearing impairments.

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Related Topix: Family, Elderly (Senior Citizen), Medicine

Sun Feb 12, 2012

CiteULike

Brain sensitivity to print emerges when children learn letter-speech sound correspondences

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , Vol. 107, No. 17. , pp. 7939-7944., doi:10.1073/pnas.0904402107 The acquisition of reading skills is a major landmark process in a human's cognitive development.

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Manila Bulletin

Without Sight Or Sound, But With Full Of Hope

Most persons with deaf-blindness are not totally blind or deaf. Some need assistance like these participants of the 9th Helen Keller World Conference held in Uganda in 2009.

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BellaOnline

Hearing Loss in Senior Adults

Beauty & Self Books & Music Career Computers Education Family Food & Wine Health & Fitness Hobbies & Crafts Home & Garden Money News & Politics Relationships Religion & Spirituality Sports Travel & Culture TV & Movies Most young people take hearing for granted.

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Montgomery Advertiser

Women in Business: Dr. Bettie Borton

With Mitt Romney, Barack Obama and others on the presi dential campaign trail, you might not have heard that Dr.

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Related Topix: Medicine, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Montgomery, AL

Broomfield Enterprise

Bazinet: Listen up, put vanity aside and consider a hearing aid

When was the last time you heard the birds chirp or the rustle of the wind in the trees? Can you still hear the doorbell or, more important, cars coming around the corner as you cross the street? Do you find yourself missing conversation and saying "What?" "Excuse me?" If these questions hit home, you might be one of the 10 million Americans older ... (more)

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Related Topix: Medicine, Broomfield, CO

Sat Feb 11, 2012

The Republic

Hearing screenings help catch, treat problem in young children

Alma Salas, right, holds her one-year-old daughter Jihovana Sandoval-Salas as Early Head Start family support worker Carla Reed inserts a hearing test device into her ear Feb.3, 2012.

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CiteULike

Speech understanding and aging

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Reno Gazette-Journal

Service dog missing in Golden Valley; injured Army vet who needs her asks she be returned

Most people who get ready to board a plane for a long flight probably wish for an empty seat next... If only there were some way to re-create here the visceral impact of Karen O's cover of Led... QUESTION: My wife and I will be going to Las Vegas soon, and we will be participating in a video... Nala, a service dog being trained by Tim Conzachi to ... (more)

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Norwalk Citizen News

Hospital's sleep disorder center, rehab services to have new home

Norwalk Hospital Occupational Health and Rehabilitation Services and the Norwalk Hospital Sleep Disorders Center have been relocated to a newly redesigned state-of-the-art-facility at 520 West Ave.

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Related Topix: Sleep, Medicine, Norwalk, CT

Financial Times

Without warning

This beautiful, elegiac ballad tells of a man's pain of attempting to rediscover the pleasure of a his love of music The Train in the Night: A Story of Music and Loss , by Nick Coleman, Jonathan Cape, RRPA 16.99, 288 pages Music was central to Nick Coleman's life.

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Sys-Con Media

Foundation For Sight & Sound Launches Help America Hear Scholarship

The scholarship is open to all high school seniors, nationally, who presently wear hearing aids or will benefit from one.

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Fri Feb 10, 2012

CBS Local

Students With Hearing Loss Experience Minnesota Orchestra

MINNEAPOLIS - Music is so present in many of our lives, it's easy to take for granted.

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National Institutes of Health

Drug halts organ damage in inflammatory genetic disorder

A new study shows that Kineret , a medication approved for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, is effective in stopping the progression of organ damage in people with neonatal-onset multisystem inflammatory disease .

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Related Topix: Medicine, Medication, Kineret, Anakinra (generic), Genetics, Arthritis, Health, Rheumatoid Arthritis

Home Theater

Hearing Protection

I'm a listener from Lima, Peru, and I love your podcast. In episode 71, you said that you use hearing protection when you go to the movies or concerts.

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Related Topix: Peru, World News, Medicine

KVUE.com

Pill may prevent hearing lost

If you could take a pill to prevent hearing loss, would you? With so many of us in this technology age exposed to loud noises, from iPods to video games to cars that talk to us, Americans are losing their hearing at faster rates than ever.

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