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<description>Everything you want to know about hearing loss!</description>
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<title>Sorting Out the Tinnitus Treatment Conundrum</title>
<description>While research continues, tinnitus is a condition that needs to be managed. Sound therapy remains the most effective form of treatment. </description>
<link>http://www.hearinglossweb.com/Medical/Tinnitus/tinnitus.htm#con</link>
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<title>Invisible Captioning is the Next Big Idea</title>
<description>Their plan is to make glasses with lenses and a custom filter that would capture ultraviolet light. A movie projector would send out the UV light, but only those with the glasses would see the captions. </description>
<link>http://www.hearinglossweb.com/Issues/Access/Captioning/Movies/inv.htm</link>
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<title>Purdue innovation could help people with severe hearing loss</title>
<description>"Unlike other algorithms that simply shift high-frequency sounds to a lower pitch range, this algorithm mirrors and flips them. By moving the highest pitched speech sounds, like 's,' to the lowest pitches, the listener can more easily relearn them because they are still different from other speech sounds in the mid-pitch range, like 'sh,' </description>
<link>http://www.hearinglossweb.com/tech/ha/tech/pur.htm</link>
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<title>Nursing Homes Often Don't Manage Patient Hearing Loss Well</title>
<description>The results show a worrying trend in which hearing loss is not being diagnosed or managed properly. </description>
<link>http://www.hearinglossweb.com/Issues/Identity/cope/nurs.htm</link>
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<title>Regal to Provide Sony Closed Caption Glasses</title>
<description>By the end of this month, Regal Cinemas plans to have distributed closed-captioning glasses to more than 6,000 theaters across the country.</description>
<link>http://www.hearinglossweb.com/Issues/Access/Captioning/Movies/movies.htm#reg2</link>
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<title>Untreated hearing loss has a negative impact on cognition</title>
<description>Older adults with untreated hearing loss are more likely to develop problems thinking and remembering than older adults whose hearing is normal, according to a study by hearing experts at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the US.</description>
<link>http://www.hearinglossweb.com/Issues/Identity/cog.htm</link>
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<title>ATT Settles Relay Service Billing Probe </title>
<description>AT&T Inc. has agreed to pay $18.25 million to settle an investigation by the FCC's Enforcement Bureau into whether the company improperly billed the Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS) fund for certain IP Relay (Internet-based TRS) calls. </description>
<link>http://www.hearinglossweb.com/Issues/Access/telecomm/relay/att.htm</link>
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<title>NIDCD Observes Better Hearing and Speech Month</title>
<description>The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), observes Better Hearing and Speech Month this May.</description>
<link>http://www.hearinglossweb.com/res/hlorg/bhsm.htm</link>
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<title>Advanced Bionics Releases Cochlear Implant Apps</title>
<description>Advanced Bionics (AB) announced today the launch of two sophisticated iPad(r) apps, designed to help adults learning to hear with cochlear implants and hearing professionals working with children.</description>
<link>http://www.hearinglossweb.com/res/ci/ab/app.htm</link>
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<title>Regal Installing Captioning Equipment in Thousands of Movie Theaters</title>
<description>His company, the nation's largest theater chain, will have nearly 6,000 theater screens equipped with closed-captioning glasses</description>
<link>http://www.hearinglossweb.com/Issues/Access/Captioning/Movies/movies.htm#reg</link>
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