Personal Health: Lifelines for People With Hearing Loss

This "hidden" disability, currently untreated in about 85 percent of those affected, may be the nation's most damaging sensory handicap.

Twin Valley band members get special earplugs

It's not something young people spend a lot of time talking about, but it's something they should hear: Louder music, louder entertainment and all-around louder lives make noise-induced hearing loss a problem that warrants attention.

Listening to Your Music Player May Lead to Early Hearing Loss

Research shows that even a small device like an MP3 player can still inflict devastating damage to your hearing when used incorrectly.

Music training has biological impact on aging process

Age-related delays in neural timing are not inevitable and can be avoided or offset with musical training, according to the first study to provide biological evidence that lifelong musical experience impacts the aging process. Measuring automatic brain responses of younger and older musicians and non-musicians to speech sounds, researchers found older musicians not only outperformed older non ...

Music training can offset age-related delays in neural timing

Washington, Jan 31 (ANI): Age-related delays in neural timing are not inevitable and can be avoided or offset with musical training, researchers suggest.