Ear & Head

  Pacific Specialists, your Los Angeles Ear, Nose & Throat doctors treats many patients suffering from Tinnitus. Tinnitus is the term used to describe any kind of ear or head noise. Over 50 million individuals, one out of six people, report some kind of tinnitus. The most common forms are high pitch tones, ocean roar, seashell hiss, white noise, or a buzz. Tinnitus is almost always subjective, meaning that it can only heard by the person with the tinnitus. In rare instances, a muscle

  By Lisa Packer, staff writer for Healthy Hearing Whether it’s a fair stereotype or not, aging is typically associated with negative changes; among these are hearing loss and some loss of cognitive function, often referred to as senility. But what if it didn’t have to be that way? Researchers at Johns Hopkins are hoping to be able to answer that question in the near future. While past studies have shown that hearing loss is strongly associated with cognitive decline, up

  Republished from Healthy Hearing If you have hearing loss, you may be at greater risk of an accidental injury at work or at play, according to a recent study. The study, which was published in March, used data from the National Health Interview Survey between 2007 and 2015 to analyze accidental injuries among a cross-section of adults. Accidental injuries were reported by 2.8 percent of adults over a three-month period, and the odds of such injuries were twice as likely among those