Lifelines for people with hearing loss

Hearing loss, a disability currently untreated in about 85 percent of those affected, may be the nation's most damaging and costly sensory handicap. It is a hidden disability, often not obvious to others or even to those who have it. Its onset is usually insidious, gradually worsening over years and thus easily ignored.

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.

Hearing Loss Not A Defeat

Basketball is a game of sounds. Distinct noises like the squeak of sneakers on the court, the swish of the net and a point guard calling a play. Caleb Pitman hears little or, in some cases, none of this. And Lake Mead's emerging power forward doesn't view

Able Planet Plans Hearing Aid Option for Aging Population

Ever since electric hearing aids were introduced around the turn of the last century, they have been too expensive for most aging Americans. Scores of inventors have tried to commercialize lower-cost hearing devices, but their products often come up short, amplifying low-frequency sound and making it difficult to hear voices.

Babysitter sentenced to 10 years for shaking baby

A Washington state woman admitted to violently shaking her baby left in her care, received the maximum sentence of 10 years.