Hearing-Aid.com Launches Today; Provides Tips, Tools For Hearing Loss

Hearing loss affects millions of Americans, but finding out information about hearing loss and hearing help has been a challenge - until now. Hearing-Aid.com is a new resource designed to provide people with hearing loss, and those that love them, with all of the resources they need to attack hearing loss head-on. From understanding the causes of hearing loss and finding a professional to ...

Group to protest DHHS hearing

The North Platte Telegraph Department of Health and Human Services providers throughout North Platte will join forces with the Family Advocacy Movement (FAM) to protest the lack of public input at today's informal hearing regarding LR 568, which is designed to review and assess reforms within HHS.

Report: 20% of teens suffer hearing loss

Hearing loss among teenagers is on the upswing, according to research just published in the “Journal of the American Medical Association.”

ReSound hopes to integrate hearing aids into the digital 21st century

Harvey Fletcher, a scientist at Bell Laboratories, is widely credited with inventing the electric hearing aid, a cumbersome body worn device that debuted in the 1930s. Now 80 years later, a Minnesota-based company is trying to solve a problem that has eluded decades of innovation: reconcile the problematic device with ordinary life- 21st century style. ReSound, headquartered [...]

Relatives say Chesterfield train death ruled an accident

CHESTERFIELD, VA (WWBT) - New information about the young man who was struck and killed by an Amtrak train. Relatives say his death has been ruled an accident.