How can anyone accurately assess or treat a person’s communication abilities if we haven’t first checked whether they can hear?

Listening in noise asks your hearing system to do more than detect a voice. It also has to separate that voice from competing sounds while preserving enough detail for the words to make sense.

Pre-treatment with honokiol—a multifunctional small molecule extracted from herbal medicine (the genus Magnolia)—reduced high-frequency hearing loss and protected cochlear function.

I’m a product designer, and my connections with theater professionals drew my attention to the work behind captioning. Preparing captions can take days. During the show, someone usually has to advance them line by line.