New Help for Dizzy Patients

Vertigo, dizziness and balance disorders can literally make a person’s head spin. Almost as unsettling is the long and frustrating odyssey through the healthcare system to seek treatment for these ... Read More »

Buckley, Big Bucks and the Chairman of the Board in “The City that Never Sleeps”

Deafness Research Foundation (DRF) hosted its annual “Celebration of Hearing Health” fundraising event on May 3, 2006, at The Maritime Hotel Hiro Ballroom in New York City. The gala event raised ... Read More »

View from the Top

Armand D’Amato and his daughter Jessica have certainly learned a lot from one another over the years.

D’Amato, a New York native, is the chairman of the Deafness Research Foundation ... Read More »

FYI

Speedy Delivery of Justice

Shipping giant Federal Express Corporation (FedEx) was found liable for damages in the amount of $108,000 in a lawsuit brought against them by the U.S. Equal ... Read More »

Heard Around the World

Tinnitus on the Rise…In Children?

According to a Swedish national newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, researchers in Sweden have discovered that school-aged children are experiencing tinnitus ... Read More »

Adventures in Sound

Across the valley, a little way up the mountain, coyotes yelp. The room I’m in has the only bug screen in the house. Thousands of moths, mosquitoes and strange long-antennaed grey bugs slam into ... Read More »

Internationally Renowned Fundraiser Celebrates ­Silver ­Anniversary

How much wood would a wood-cutter cut if a wood-cutter could cut wood? 

This Labor Day weekend, thousands will gather to watch lumberjacks in action in events such as log sawing and ... Read More »

Step Up to the Plate

If you listen carefully, you can hear it echoing from the smallest sand lot to the multi-million-dollar stadium. From Bangor, Maine, to San Diego, Calif. From majors and minors, to peewees and seniors. ... Read More »

True, Fair, Beneficial to All and Builds Goodwill, Too!

What if everything you thought, said or did had to measure up to this four-way test: Is it the truth? Is it fair to all concerned? Will it build goodwill and better friendships? Will it be beneficial ... Read More »

Among the Very Young at Heart

In Marion Downs’ world, you can never be too young. Or too old.\
 Downs is recognized worldwide as one of the earliest advocates of hearing testing in infants. In the early 1950s at the University ... Read More »

Sports and Your Hearing Health

Of all the areas of the body, the ear is particularly vulnerable to sports-related trauma and damage because of its central location, minimal soft tissue coverage and nonrigid skeleton. Soft tissue ... Read More »

On Your Mark, Get Set, Protect Your Ears!

Many people who work in hazardously noisy environments are taking measures to protect their hearing – using earplugs or headphones. Some of those same people so concerned about hearing health on ... Read More »

Showstoppers: From the Floor of the Annual Convention of the American Academy of Audiology

Minneapolis, a unique metropolis with over 60 blocks of “skyways” providing pedestrians with protection from exposure to the cold, hosted AudiologyNOW, the 18th annual convention of the American ... Read More »

“Pinch Hitter” a Home Run for DRF

The world over, researchers are working on placing together the pieces of the puzzle of age-related hearing loss. In “The Biology of Age-Related Hearing Loss” (p. 12) we see some of the pieces. ... Read More »