Heroes With Hearing Loss

Heroes with Hearing Loss

Katherine Bouton #HLAA., Heroes With Hearing Loss, Veterans with hearing loss

This Memorial Day, there will be very few parades to celebrate our veterans. But it's a good time to remind ourselves of the toll that war takes on hearing. When we think about the injuries our servicemen and -women endure, we focus on major life-changing injuries like Traumatic Brain Injury and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. We worry about suicide in veterans. … Continue reading Heroes with Hearing Loss

One Potential Way to Cure Hearing Loss

Katherine Bouton Hair Cell Regeneration, Hearing Restoration, Heroes With Hearing Loss, Research on Hearing Loss

At the end of May (May 30), a few days after Americans honored Veterans on Memorial Day, a New England biotech company announced that it had received a grant from the Department of Defense to research a therapeutic opportunity that may help reverse hearing loss. A 2015 study of almost 50,000 soldiers showed that peak … Continue reading One Potential Way to Cure Hearing Loss

The Noise of War

Katherine Bouton Healthy Hearing, Heroes With Hearing Loss, Veterans with hearing loss

This Memorial Day, as we honor veterans with parades and flags and, yes, barbecues, we should remind ourselves of the toll that war takes on hearing. Two and a half million veterans have service-connected hearing disabilities. Tinnitus is the number-one claim for all service related disability, with more than 1.5 million veterans receiving disability benefits … Continue reading The Noise of War