Scientists have found a cancer treatment drug for humans, dabrafenib, helps treat hearing loss in mice. It seems to work for cisplatin chemotherapy and noise-induced hearing loss. This is good news. But noise-induced hearing loss is more than decreased hearing thresholds from inner ear or cochlear damage. Harmful noise >70 dB snaps connections or synapses …
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I was honoured to co-author this case scenario with Dr. Daniel Fink of The Quiet Coalition. The clinical topic is on making recommendations to patients on how to lower personal listening noise exposure. The goal is preventing hearing system damage in upcoming generations of personal listening users including children, teens, and young adults. Noise-induced hearing …
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Feature photo by Fernando @cferdo on Unsplash. There are lots of free resources online for people looking for tinnitus-hyperacusis coping tools. This includes people from the normal hearing, Hearing Loss or Hard of Hearing, and Deaf communities. Scientists think tinnitus-hyperacusis come from hyperactive hearing systems. Tinnitus = extra sound heard. Hyperacusis = extra loud sound …
Featured image by Ewan Robertson on Unsplash Fink, D and Mayes, J.L. (2021, Jan 1). Curbside consultation: Making recommendations to reduce noise exposure. American Family Physician. 103(1): 57-59. Mayes, Jan L. (2020, Dec 17). When hearing aids don’t work. silencity.com Mayes, Jan L. (2020, Dec 1). Building your own hearing protection toolkit. Tinnitus Today (Winter …