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Beware – constantly listening to music on your earphones could make you deaf!

October 1, 2012
September 24-30 is International Week of the Deaf! It's an all too familiar sight these days - people, mostly youngsters, with earphones on, listening to music on their i-Pods or mobile phones. The constant exposure to high …

Rock concerts will make you deaf!

May 23, 2012
Seventy-two percent of teens experienced reduced hearing after being exposed to blasting rock shows by a popular female singer. M. Jennifer Derebery, physician from the House Research Institute, and colleagues tested teens' …

DRDO’s low-cost cochlear implants provides a ray of hope for deaf people

February 6, 2012
Providing a ray of hope for millions of deaf people in the country, Indian defence scientists have developed a low-cost cochlear implant that will enable them hear again, a doctor from a city hospital said here Sunday. "With the …