It’s Possible to Poison Your Ears

Remember the scene in Hamlet where the players reenact the murder of Hamlet’s father? They pantomime the moment when Claudius poured poison into the senior Hamlet’s ear. Now, Claudius wasn’t looking to poison just an ear. In fact, the poison he used probably worked because of the connection between the ears

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COGNITIVE HEALTH AND HEARING LOSS

That title may have you asking, what exactly is cognitive health? According to Merriam-Webster, cognitive means, “of, relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity” (such as thinking, reasoning, or remembering). So, when we talk about cognitive health, we mean the ability to focus brain-power, to concentrate on various tasks

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Hearing Loss and Smoking: Some Surprising Connections

Even 50 years after the U.S. surgeon General’s warning about the dangers of cigarettes, it’s still not uncommon to walk down a street and see quite a few people smoking. In Canada, about 1 in 10 people is a smoker. There’s been more and more research on the health hazards

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