Putting aside their exorbitant cost, the trouble with prescription hearing aids is the prescription. Find a doctor. Get an appointment. Sit in a waiting room. Suffer through an hour of testing before ...

Many health-related measurements are familiar to people, like perfect vision being represented as 20/20. However, how is healthy hearing quantified? Presented with the results of a hearing test, most ...

The Békésy test is an automated method for measuring hearing thresholds, commonly used for audiometric screening and detecting noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL). This test utilizes pulsed tones that ...

Since the inception of hearing conservation regulations hatched in the 1970's, efforts to stop noise-induced hearing loss always have been tied to a lagging indicator – namely, audiometric testing. If ...