28 November 2003 Exercise is good for your hearing Exercise is good for your hearing and may help diminish temporary threshold shifts (TTS). Read more
24 November 2003 Ear plugs in pill form Six hundred US marines have been signed up for a test trial towards the end of 2003 in which they will be taking pills to protect their hearing during shooting exercises. Read more
18 November 2003 DKK 30 million for screening of newborns A new national infant hearing screening programme is being tested in Denmark. DKK 15 million per year for the next two years was made available for the test programme in the most recent Danish budget bill, passed in November, 2003. Read more
13 November 2003 £20 million for hearing aids Hearing aid services are to receive an extra £9 million investment from the Scottish Executive. Read more
27 October 2003 States offer hearing aid loan banks for infants Families with hearing impaired infants in Delaware in the United States will soon be able to borrow hearing aids from a new hearing aid loan bank while they wait for their doctors and insurance companies to provide permanent ones. The service will be offered by the state. Read more
02 October 2003 Hearing loss in elderly often undiagnosed Hearing loss is the third most prevalent chronic condition in older adults and has important effects on their physical and mental health. Read more
23 September 2003 We get used to noise Living in a big city implies inevitably being surrounded by noise. When asking people how they can live with so much noise, the answer is: "I am just used to it". Read more
17 September 2003 Hearing problems affect general health Among hearing impaired people, 12% find that their health is bad. In the general population just 5.5% report a bad health condition. Read more
04 September 2003 Workplace to provide hearing assistance in competition to attract employees Businesses of the world: Look out for the upcoming worker shortage. Read more
01 September 2003 Early Detection of Infants' Hearing Loss The Spanish Ministry of Health and Consumption, in cooperation with the Autonomous Regions, has set up the basis for an Early Detection of Hearing Loss in Infants programme. Read more
08 August 2003 Louisiana hearing aid coverage an overwhelming success The state program offering full coverage for hearing aids to the elderly in Louisiana has become extremely successful. Read more
07 July 2003 Disastrous lack of hearing care The state of the Russian ear care is shocking by world standards, according to sparse and incomplete available data as described in the English language newspaper, Moscow News. Read more
24 June 2003 Night club owner faces the music - prison sentence for excessive noise Night club owner in Palencia sentenced to 27 months in prison for endangering people's health and disregarding repeated demands from local authorities to control the noise. Read more
27 May 2003 Dancing in the din The noise levels are up, up and away in night clubs and discos. Read more
19 May 2003 Hearing loss leads to more doctors' visits Elderly people with hearing loss are three times as likely as elderly people without hearing loss to contact their doctor, according to a study carried out in the Northwestern United States. Read more
13 May 2003 Break-through in the making for hearing impaired athletes The prospects for hearing impaired athletes aspiring to compete internationally and to gain wider recognition got a welcome boost when Tiffany Granfors, one of the indefatigable organizers of the Deaflympics, recently received an invitation into the world's most prestigious and exclusive study program for sports executives. Read more
22 April 2003 Lagging behind in hearing loss treatment Scotland is struggling to keep up with the rest of the United Kingdom in the treatment of hearing loss. Read more
16 April 2003 Digital hearing aids for all on NHS Digital hearing aids will be made publicly available in England by April 2005. Read more
08 April 2003 International Noise Awareness Day The 2003 International Noise Awareness Day will be held on Wednesday, the 30th of April, 2003. Read more
01 April 2003 Hearing aid grants doubled The government grants to help hearing impaired Irishmen buy hearing aids have been doubled. Read more
26 February 2003 Winter Deaflympics in Sweden Games for deaf and severely hearing impaired athletes are the world's fastest growing sports movement. Read more
25 February 2003 Laws fail to protect children against hazardous toys Rules and regulations protect adults against noise in the workplace. But no law extends similar protection to children in their daily lives even though they are sensitive to noise and hearing loss may have severe social consequences for them. Read more
20 February 2003 Genetically conditioned hearing loss unevenly spread in population The frequency of genetically caused hearing loss is significantly uneven from group to group in the German population according to a study of the causes of hearing loss. Read more
03 February 2003 Lawsuit to accommodate hard of hearing audience in cinemas Cinemas are a closed world to millions of hearing impaired people on every continent because of the lack of captioning. Read more
