Serving Up Noise.
If the worm researchers are right, better set your cell phone on vibrate the next time you eat out. The clattering plates, poundingmusic, raucous customers, and steady din from the kitchen and bar can soar as high as the levels measured in heavy industry manufacturing, according to 'researchers at...

Adjusting Speech Pitch Improves Hearing.
Amplifying sound through a hearing aid does not always help people suffering from hearing loss understand speech better. However, compressing sound frequency--decreasing its pitch--through new computer technology seems to aid those with high-frequency hearing loss do so, according to University of Iowa, Iowa City, research findings. "Theoretically, there was...

Task Force Recommends that All Newborns Should be Checked for Hearing Loss.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-7 July 2008-Task Force Recommends that All Newborns Should be Checked for Hearing Loss(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com All newborn infants should be screened for congenital hearing loss that is present at birth, according to a new recommendation from the U.S. Preventive Services Task...

CEA Expands Collaboration with the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-28 May 2008-CEA Expands Collaboration with the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) announced an extension of its collaboration with the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) on a safe listening public education campaign entitled: "America: Tuned In Today But...

WILLAMALANE ACTIVITIES.
Byline: The Register-Guard Events scheduled by the Willamalane Park & Recreation District for the week of June 19: Thursday, June 19 Hearing Screening - Call the Adult Activity Center for a 15-minute appointment. Space is limited. For ages 50 and older. Sponsored by...

NEIGHBORS.
COLUMN: NEIGHBORS Douglas students job-shadow at Raytheon DOUGLAS - Three juniors from Douglas High School visited Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems center in Sudbury on March 11 to get first-hand exposure to a day-in-the-life of an information technology professional. The job-shadowing opportunity was organized by Ann...

On deaf ears; "Life is as tedious as a twicetold tale, Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man." William Shakespeare (15641616) English dramatist, poet Louis the Dauphin, In King John, Act 3, sc. 4.
Byline: DR. BRIX PUJALTE MOST people know about presbyopia - the age-related stiffness of the lens of the eye leading to far-sightedness. It's that inescapable squinting and focusing in reading, for example, the messages on your cellphone inbox. But how many have heard of presbycusis (prez-bee-KYOO-sis)? This...

BRIEFLY.
Byline: The Register-Guard Sen. Ron Wyden to hold public meetings on Iraq U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., will host a series of town hall meetings this month, including an Aug. 16 gathering at the University of Oregon campus, to gather public comment on the war...

Lend me your ears; a[euro]Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.a[euro] - Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882), US essayist, philosopher Intellect Essays (1841).
Byline: Dr. Jose Pujalte Jr. I RAN recently into ENT specialist Dr. Christopher Malorre E. Calaquian who asked me to write about PNEI or the Philippine National Ear Institute in UPPhilippine General Hospital. Maloy sent a monograph and I apologize if I've taken the liberty of truncating...

Rescreening newborns who fail hearing test recommended to reduce false positives.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Rescreening newborns before they leave the hospital nursery if they failed an initial hearing test can reduce false-positive results by 75%, Dr. Hari B. Srinivasan said at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies. Since January 2003, clinicians at Mount Sinai Hospital, Chicago,...