Hearing Health

What do bananas, spinach and peanuts have in common? They are among the foods that contain nutrients linked to hearing health! While no single nutrient holds […]

Yes, allergies can cause conductive hearing loss. Conductive hearing loss is a curable hearing loss caused by a physical barrier, such as fluid or ear wax, […]

Cisplatin is a chemotherapy drug, used to treat a variety of cancers including bladder, ovarian and testicular cancers. According to the National Cancer Institute, 40-80% of […]

Although the nature of hearing loss can change over time, deafness is generally not the ultimate result. There are some important differences between deafness and hearing […]

Often referred to as ‘ringing in the ears’, tinnitus can be many different types of sound such as hissing, chirping, or wooshing and is a symptom […]

You hear with your brain, not with your ears. Of course, we need our ears to capture sounds, but we only understand these sounds once they […]

We take medications to cure and/or treat illness, but the contents of many drugs are able to cause additional medical issues at a high dosage or […]

Tinnitus has commonly been described as a ringing in the ear, though the sounds resulting from tinnitus could also be described as a hissing, clicking, whistling […]

Not all hearing losses are the same. The type of hearing loss someone has is only determined after careful examination of the entire auditory system and […]

Sudden sensorineural hearing loss or sudden deafness is a rapid loss of hearing that can occur over a period of days, hours or even seconds. It […]

For some people, ear infections are a common occurrence and chronic ear infections can lead to permanent hearing loss. Some illnesses may increase the likelihood of […]

When a medical condition occurs in the body, it can affect you in ways you wouldn’t have expected! This is true even with hearing loss, which […]

The short answer is yes, hearing loss can be hereditary. You can develop hearing loss from unsafe exposure to noise and as a result of aging, […]

May is Speech and Hearing Awareness Month and it’s an important time to be aware of hearing loss, which strikes 1 in 5 Canadians, 47% of […]

We hear with our ears, but we understand with our brain. Our brain makes sense of the noises we hear every day. So if you’re hearing […]