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Hearing loss

Research matters

Research revolutionizes treatment of age-related hearing loss

Published Feb 18, 2025

After NIH-funded studies linked untreated hearing loss to health issues such as dementia, Hopkins professor Frank Lin spearheaded policy changes making hearing aids easier and cheaper to acquire

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Q+A

Cutting through the distortion on musician hearing health

Published Oct 30, 2023

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Kris Chesky talks about the musician-specific earplug industry, and what might be done to improve how musicians and their teachers prevent noise-induced hearing loss

Study links hearing loss, dementia

Published Jan 11, 2023

Bloomberg School study finds older adults with greater severity of hearing loss were more likely to have dementia, but the likelihood of dementia was lower among hearing aid users compared to non-users

Audiologist inserting hearing aid on a senior woman's ear, close-up.

Q+A

Hearing aid coverage could be 'transformational'

Published Nov 15, 2021

Expanding Medicare coverage to pay for hearing aids would improve the quality of life for millions of older Americans, says Nicholas Reed of the Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health

Student achievement

First-year student wins scholarship for students with cochlear implants

Published Feb 22, 2021

First-year student Zandy Wong researches hearing loss in mice as a member of the neuroscience scholars program

Technology

Hipper hearing

Published June 14, 2019

Only a fraction of those who could benefit from hearing assistive devices wear them. What changes are needed to encourage total adoption?

Health care

Patients with untreated hearing loss incur higher health care costs over time

Published Nov 16, 2018

Older adults with untreated hearing loss generated 46 percent more in total health care costs over 10 years compared to those who don't have hearing loss