Congenital Hearing Loss

The RiverBend Growth Association , the chamber of commerce and economic development organization for the Riverbend, hosted a ribbon-cutting Monday for the grand opening and new management of Mid America Audiology Group .  For more than 30 years, Mid America Audiology Group has been helping improve the quality of patient’s lives in Alton, Edwardsville, Granite City, and surrounding areas in Southern Illinois. Anyone’s quality of life depends on the ability to communicate with friends and family. Mid America Audiology Group is dedicated to improving the quality of life for patients by offering the best solution for each individual’s hearing needs. With two audiologists, a hearing instrument specialist, and a strong support staff, each member of the Mid America Audiology Group is experienced, compassionate, and honest. The hearing specialists are committed to excellence and ethics while providing the best care for specific hearing needs. Mid America Audiology has served the hearin...

KEARNEY — Comedian D.J. Demers wears hearing aids. In one of his routines, Demers talks about swimming without his hearing aids. “My hearing aids aren’t waterproof,” he said. “That’s crazy. I’ve got to take them out when I shower, when I go swimming. Pool parties are a nightmare. I’m not very good at the game ‘Marco Polo.’ Not a whole lot of ‘Polo’ happening when I’m playing that game. Lots of ‘Marco,’ lots of ‘Marco.’” Demers will perform at 7 p.m. Feb. 7 at the Ponderosa Room at the Nebraskan Student Union at 1013 W. 27th St. on the University of Nebraska at Kearney campus. The show is presented by the Loper Programming Activities Council. Admission is free. In a previous interview, Demers talked about his childhood and his hearing impairment. “If I was a kid who saw a comic who wore hearing aids on Conan O’Brien, I would think that was pretty cool as a 10-year-old boy,” he said. “I went into comedy because I like being funny. But, I know I have a direct impact on...

Hearing Loss Can Contribute to Mental Decline, Dementia: Experts (Photo Credits: Pixabay) New Delhi, January 30:  Hearing loss can lead to impaired memory and higher risk of dementia and ensuing Alzheimer's disease in older people, health experts say. Deafness, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), refers to the complete loss of hearing ability in one or both ears, while "hearing impairment" refers to both complete and partial loss of hearing ability. Nearly 360 million people, nearly one-tenth of them children, suffer from hearing loss worldwide.  What is Alzheimer's Disease? Symptoms, Causes, Treatment and Preventive Measures of This Degenerative Disease. "Yes, hearing loss can lead to cognitive decline. Our two senses -- vision and hearing -- contribute to our cognitive development. When we are not able to hear well, most of the information that is delivered to us that way is not received properly. This way, less hearing slowly contributes to ...

New Delhi : Hearing loss can lead to impaired memory and higher risk of dementia and ensuing Alzheimer’s disease in older people, health experts say. Deafness, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), refers to the complete loss of hearing ability in one or both ears, while “hearing impairment” refers to both complete and partial loss of hearing ability. Nearly 360 million people, nearly one-tenth of them children, suffer from hearing loss worldwide. “Yes, hearing loss can lead to cognitive decline. Our two senses — vision and hearing — contribute to our cognitive development. When we are not able to hear well, most of the information that is delivered to us that way is not received properly. This way, less hearing slowly contributes to cognitive decline,” Suresh Singh Naruka, Senior Consultant – ENT at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals here, told. “It is important to understand that brain development and cognition development is a slow process. Intelligence is not a static thi...

Jenrry Mejia Sun staff photos can be ordered by visiting our SmugMug site. Relief pitcher Jenrry Mejia, allowed back into baseball after a lifetime ban caused by three positive drug tests, has agreed to a minor league contract with the Boston Red Sox. If added to the 40-man roster, the 29-year-old Dominican right-hander would receive a one-year contract at a rate of $625,000 while in the major leagues and $90,400 while in the minors. Mejia was suspended for life on Feb. 12, 2016, after his third positive test for a banned steroid. The drug agreement allowed him to apply a year later for reinstatement that would be effective a minimum of two years after the ban started, with the decision at the commissioner's discretion. Commissioner Rob Manfred gave him conditional reinstatement last July 6 and said Mejia could return to the big leagues in 2019. The Arizona Diamondbacks have given manager Torey Lovullo a two-year contract extension through the 2021 season. Lovullo, 53,...

St Louis police officer Nathaniel Hendren is accused of killing a colleague during a twisted game of Russian roulette. The 29-year-old is seen in his mugshot (above) with a black eye reportedly sustained headbutting a police vehicle after the fatal shooting The St Louis circuit attorney's office has raised serious concerns over the police handling of the death of a female officer allegedly killed by a male colleague in a twisted 1am game of Russian roulette.  Prosecutor Kimberly M. Gardner questioned whether cops tried to block the drug and alcohol testing of on-duty Nathaniel Hendren and his work partner, who has not been named, following the death of 24-year-old fellow officer Katlyn Alix last Thursday. In a letter to Chief John Hayden and Public Safety Director Jimmie Edwards, Gardner also said the fact police labelled the incident an accident so soon after the shooting was 'particularly troublesome'.       Department polic...

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In pharmacy school, I took a pharmacy management elective course as I knew that one day I was going to obtain a leadership role. Going into the role I had to distinguish myself as to what type of leader/pharmacist I would be, as there are several managing styles to choose from: autocratic, democratic, or laissez-faire. Throughout the years, as both a tech and an intern, I have witnessed all 3 managing styles in the pharmacy and tried to determine what worked and what did not.          To be an autocratic leader, you have to be controlling. Basically, you will solely be making all the decisions in the pharmacy. The roles and tasks are all laid out for your employees, and they are all expected to follow direction as you see fit. Some people are opposed to this method as they see it more as a dictatorship, but when dealing with certain types of people it does have its benefits. This style of management seems to work best when dealing with people wh...

“You can only buy online or over the phone via a specialist,” says Christian Gormsen, CEO of Eargo. “We have professional audiologists on staff who support clients all over the nation.” Eargo hearing aids, Gormsen adds, will never be sold at a drugstore or big box store, where you might expect to find over-the-counter hearing aids in late 2020. Sound World Solutions offers a direct-to-consumer hearing aid, too. Over the phone or online, buyers give specialists the same medical information that they would in an audiologist’s office and say they understand that this is a medical device and not suited for people under 18. Direct-to-consumer hearing aids come with factory presets for hearing loss, ranging from mild to severe. Audiologists who sell hearing aids in their clinics say factory presets aren’t good enough. “A hearing aid that’s fit by a professional is fit to a prescriptive target based on scientific research so that the volume is set to how someone hears at those exact freq...

Hearing loss affects tens of millions of Americans and its global prevalence is expected to grow as the world's population ages. A new study led by investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital adds to a growing body of evidence that hearing loss is associated with higher risk of cognitive decline. These findings suggest that hearing loss may help identify individuals at greater risk of cognitive decline and could provide insights for earlier intervention and prevention. "Dementia is a substantial public health challenge that continues to grow. There is no cure, and effective treatments to prevent progression or reverse the course of dementia are lacking," said lead author Sharon Curhan, MD, MSc, a physician and epidemiologist in the Channing Division for Network Medicine at the Brigham. "Our findings show that hearing loss is associated with new onset of subjective cognitive concerns which may be indicative of early stage changes in cognition. These findings m...

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba — The judge in the 9/11 case abruptly canceled a pretrial hearing because he required emergency surgery for a detaching retina and then, in an illustration of how remote this island base can be, waited 16 hours to be flown to Miami for treatment. Digital Access For Only $0.99 For the most comprehensive local coverage, subscribe today. #ReadLocal Marine Col. Keith Parrella’s sudden recess late Tuesday caused another pretrial delay in efforts to try the five men accused of plotting al-Qaida’s Sept. 11, 2001 attacks that killed 2,976 people in New York, the Pentagon and in a Pennsylvania field. The men were first charged in May 2012. The next hearings are scheduled for late March. Parrella announced the health emergency in a rushed Tuesday-evening closed conference with lawyers and prosecutors, indicating he expected to be airlifted from the base within hours. But an aircraft shortage in the military medical system forced a delay until a ...

Richmond, Virginia—On Thursday, January 31, at 8:30 am, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will ask a federal appeals court to find that the act of clicking on a URL or weblink isn’t sufficient evidence for law enforcement to get a warrant to search someone’s home. The hearing involves a child pornography prosecution in which law enforcement obtained a warrant to search a defendant’s home based on the attempted connection to a URL (or weblink) by an IP address that was mapped to his computer. The URL led to a password-protected file-sharing service portal that the government maintains contained child pornography. The warrant application’s only connection to the defendant’s home was based solely on the attempted URL link, but included no information on how or why the defendant encountered the weblink, if he had any knowledge of what it linked to, or whether he ever accessed or downloaded the password-protected files. EFF Criminal Defense Staff Attorney Stephanie Lacambra will a...