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Protect Your Ears With HHF’s New PSAs

Hearing Health Foundation is thrilled to launch its newest set of PSAs, “Protect Your Ears,” as part of our ongoing Keep Listening prevention campaign, whose overall goal is to create a culture shift around how we think about healthy hearing.

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Stay Safe and Sound This Fourth of July

Independence Day is a celebration of our country’s birthday, and we’re so grateful for the service of our active members of the military and veterans—who are, as we know, disproportionately affected by hearing loss and tinnitus. But now evidence is emerging of additional, severe brain injuries affecting service members.

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How to Advocate for Your Health With Providers

These experiences highlight the need for patients, especially women, to advocate for accurate diagnoses.

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Healthy Hearing Starts at Home

Even with this elevated awareness about the harm from excess noise, sometimes it’s hard to get this message to stick at home. Here is how I helped steer my kids, who are now teenagers, steer toward healthy hearing habits.  

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Shouting From the Rooftops

We have been heartened by the increased mainstream media coverage of healthy hearing lately.

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What We Can Learn From the Eclipse

Perhaps most of all, the message of enjoying responsibly is one we really try to impart.

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Tackling the Health Risks of Social Isolation

“Lacking social connection is as dangerous as smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day,” according to a U.S. Surgeon General report.

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Let’s Welcome 2024 With a Leap Toward Discovery

As we jump into 2024, a leap year with an extra day in February, we want to extend our warmest wishes for a year filled with health, happiness, and the sounds of joy.

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A New Definition of Noise

It’s official. Noise is unwanted and/or harmful sound. I hope that awareness of the facts that wanted noise can cause auditory damage and that unwanted noise is stressful will help us achieve a quieter world.

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Brain Health in the News

The better question may be, do hearing aids reduce dementia, or does dementia reduce hearing aid use? This is the title of a May 2023 Hearing Journal paper. 

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