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Apple’s Hearing Aid Features Released | Our Initial Impressions
Today, October 28, 2024, Apple released its iOS 18.1 software, which includes the long-anticipated hearing health features. This release has been a long time coming, as we have closely monitored the progress, announcements, and initial rumors over the past nine...
Hearing Loss and Oxidative Stress: The Unlikely Link
Oxidative stress is the name for the imbalance between free radicals and antioxidants in your body; with too many free radicals and not enough antioxidants, the excess free radicals will start to harm your body’s cells and tissues. While there are no clear symptoms or...
The Impact of Hormone Imbalances and Hearing Loss on Cognitive Functions
Recent studies have emerged linking hormone imbalances as we get older to a decline in cognitive health, which is the part of the brain related to memory and fine motor skills. As we age, we naturally lose sex-related hormones, called estrogen, progesterone, and...
When Was Your Last Hearing Test?
This research, taken on by YouGov, found that many British adults claimed their hearing was good but found they struggled in noisy surroundings like restaurants or pretended to follow conversations they couldn’t hear. But despite how over a third of people surveyed...
Apple Officially Announces a Hearing Test and Hearing Aid Feature | What This Means
Yesterday (September 9, 2024), Apple held an online event to make a number of announcements about their next generation of iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods. Having shared that Apple was rumored to be launching a 'Hearing Aid Mode' earlier this year, we watched with...
How Aging Affects Our Focus
If you’re reading this, perhaps you’ve entered your 50s or 60s and have noticed some struggles in focusing on tasks, or remembering what were once simple facts. Your brain’s processing speed slows down as you age; your cognitive abilities, related to your memory and...
Auditory Nerves and Hidden Hearing Loss
Hearing loss causes include noise exposure, infection, genetic predisposition, aging, and accidents in the work field—but some hearing loss symptoms aren’t as easily deduced on a regular hearing assessment. These forms of “hidden hearing loss” can sometimes go missed...
A Dissonant Chord: Half of All Music Fans Deal with Tinnitus
When was the last time you went to a concert? Coming home from the venue with ears ringing… We didn’t realize at the time what damage we were doing to our ears, but now, most of us are more conscious of noise-induced hearing damage. However, according to a recent...
Lenire Success Stories: Groundbreaking New Tinnitus Treatment
Imagine going about your day with a relentless buzzing noise in your ears, trying to get work done while your ears are ringing or going to bed at night to the roaring noise that doesn’t go away. For 25 million adults in the US, that ever-present noise is very real –...
Music to Your Ears: Hearing Protection for Musicians
Ever wondered what Ludwig van Beethoven has in common with Alice Cooper? Both musicians have (or had) some form of hearing loss that famously affected their musical careers. (Alice Cooper actually wears Starkey hearing aids— excellent choice.) As many as 30 million...