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Hearing Treatment
Being Practical
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Anchor lead: Knowing your hearing number will help in health related decisions, Elizabeth Tracey reports There’s a compelling case to be made for reporting hearing levels using numbers that are already in use among audiologists. That’s according to Frank Lin, …
A New Number
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Anchor lead: Hearing is a simple number you should know, Elizabeth Tracey reports Hearing should be a reported number just like cholesterol. That’s according to Frank Lin, a hearing expert at Johns Hopkins, in a recent paper advocating for widespread …
Amphetamine Use Disorder
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Anchor lead: A new treatment for those with methamphetamine use disorder points to how big a problem this has become, Elizabeth Tracey reports Methamphetamine use is responsible for a staggering number of drug overdoses in the western and midwestern United …
New Variants
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Anchor lead: How worried should we be about new Covid-19 variants? Elizabeth Tracey reports Variants on the Covid-19 virus have popped up from at least three places around the world, scientists have found, with the potential for enhanced transmission person …
Air Pollution and Life Expectancy
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Anchor lead: Why does air pollution reduce life expectancy? Elizabeth Tracey reports How does air pollution impact life expectancy? A recent study suggests exposure to air pollution may be a major factor accounting for differences in life expectancy among residents …