by Brandon Miller | Dec 8, 2025 | Hearing Health, Uncategorized
Headphones and earbuds are a major part of daily life for adults and children. At Family Hearing Center, many patients ask whether personal listening devices can damage hearing. The answer is yes when volume and listening time are too high. Noise induced hearing loss...
by Jason Vanier | Dec 10, 2024 | Hearing Aids, Hearing Health, Uncategorized
Source: AARP Could hearing aids help protect the brain? by Frank Lin, M.D., and Nicholas Reed, AARP, October 10, 2022 Adapted from AARP’s Hearing Loss for Dummies, www.aarp.org/hearingloss, by Frank Lin, MD, PhD, and Nicholas Reed, AuD. Over the past decade, research...
by Jason Vanier | Mar 28, 2024 | Hearing Aids, Hearing Health
Source: CNN by Madeline Holcombe CNN, July 18, 2023 CNN — For people facing a greater threat of cognitive decline, getting hearing aids could cut your risk in half, according to a new study. Cognitive decline is a reduction in abilities that can range from mild...
by Jason Vanier | Oct 14, 2022 | Hearing Health
Open a bottle of wine with dinner, share a beer with a friend, or uncork a bottle of bubbly for a special occasion. But did you know that excessive alcohol consumption can lead to hearing loss? How Does Alcohol Affect Your Hearing? There are several ways that drinking...
by Jason Vanier | Mar 6, 2022 | Hearing Aids, Hearing Health
During these uncertain times of COVID-19, many of us are feeling increased levels of stress — whether it’s stress about our health or the health of a loved one, stress about our finances or job, the future of the economy, or…(fill in your own stress here). Just know...
by Jason Vanier | May 6, 2021 | Hearing Health, Tinnitus
For many, there are no sounds of silence. Instead, even the quietest of moments, such as sleep, can be filled with buzzing, humming or ringing sounds. This unfortunate condition is called tinnitus and, according to the National Institute on Deafness and Other...
