By Mitchell Batavia, PT, Ph.D.
Mitchell Batavia PT, Ph.D., is an associate professor of physical therapy at New York University and a person with a hearing impairment. In addition to cartoons and flash fiction, he has published healthcare textbooks with Elsevier and Butterworth-Heinemann.
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.
Optical coherence tomography promises to capture functional biology in real time, which could prove revolutionary for better understanding complex hearing disorders.
Fifty percent of maximum volume on a power-hungry headphone can be quite gentle. Fifty percent on a sensitive pair of earbuds, plugged into a strong source, can be loud enough to permanently harm hearing.
Hearing Health Foundation (HHF) is very pleased to announce the addition of four new members to our Board of Directors: Andreas H. Eckhard, M.D., Steven D. Rauch, M.D., Konstantina Stankovic, M.D., Ph.D., FACS, and Daniel J. Tollin, Ph.D.
Pre-treatment with honokiol—a multifunctional small molecule extracted from herbal medicine (the genus Magnolia)—reduced high-frequency hearing loss and protected cochlear function.