New advice on interpreting audiogram results for suspected job-related hearing loss has been published, following revisions to the HSE’s regulatory guidance. The supplementary guidance on interpreting ...

Audiometry is a non-invasive and painless procedure to measure hearing sensitivity of an individual. The hearing test is performed using sounds of single frequency, tested at various intensity levels ...

Football fans of the Seattle Seahawks and the Kansas City Chiefs routinely compete at home games to set the Guinness World Record for the noisiest stadium. On October 1, 2014, the Chiefs hit the ...

IN the course of some psycho-acoustic experiments it was found that one observer's thresholds of acuity at two frequencies separated by only a few tens of cycles differed by nearly 10 decibels. Dips ...

SUDDEN unilateral deafness may be the presenting symptom of a wide variety of medical and surgical diseases, such as vascular occlusion, hypercoagulation, acoustic neuroma, ototoxic drugs, meningitis, ...