As our towns and cities continue to develop and industrialize, we are faced with ever-more noise in our environment. Some of this noise falls well below the threshold necessary to induce hearing loss, yet even this consistently quiet sound can lead to negative mental health effects. Those who are consistently exposed to noise tend to have higher levels of anxiety …

After the social transformations of 2020, many of us are looking forward to the summer of 2021 when we can take part in our favorite summer activities. The COVID-19 pandemic had many of us spending nearly all of our time at home, and the coming months are an opportunity to reconnect with our loved ones and to even meet some …

As the options for hearing aids include smaller and smaller devices, the benefits loom ever larger in our lives. Whereas the hearing aids of the past did do a lot to fill in the gaps in conversation, they still had some technical issues to work out. Older models tended to be quite large and bulky with batteries that needed to …