What Causes Deafness? Hearing requires the conversion (changing) of sound waves to signals that your brain can understand. Your ear has three major sections that help with this process: the outer ...

Only being able to hear out of one ear is more than just disorienting—it can even be alarming when it occurs suddenly. Yet hearing loss in one ear, or unilateral hearing loss, can happen for ...

Utah Valley Hospital audiologist, Jared Bumgardner, Au. D. stopped by to answer common questions related to hearing loss and hearing aids: Q: What causes hearing loss and how can I prevent it ...

Hearing loss is a common problem that can be caused by loud noise, aging, disease and genetic variations. About a third of older adults have hearing loss, and the chance of developing hearing loss ...

A new study from researchers at Beth Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School suggests that tone-deafness may be the result of a missing neural ...