hearing loss

Geriatrics chief, Dr. Sharon Brangman explains the value of a memory screening for people over 60. Editor Deirdre Neilen shares the 24th edition of The Healing Muse, Upstate's literary and visual arts journal. Amer Mansour, in his final year of medical school, talks about his research on which patients with hearing loss tend to get referred to an ear, nose and throat specialist.

Audiologist Erin Bagley, AuD, tells about cochlear implants to improve hearing difficulties. Pulmonologist Krithika Ramachandran, MBBS, describes pulmonary hypertension and how it differs from the more common, or systemic, hypertension. Microbiologist and researcher Saravanan Thangamani, PhD, looks at how big a problem ticks are likely to be this winter and spring.

For decades, the FDA has regulated hearing aids as prescription medical devices — an arrangement that adds to the cost and effort people must invest to get them.

Vision researcher and ophthalmologist Amir Yazdanyar grew up with a mother who told him eating carrots was good for his eyes. Indeed, vitamin-A-rich…

An alarming number of people who take synthetic marijuana are arriving at hospital emergency departments in Syracuse suffering from dangerous reactions.…

Dr. Rick Kelley and Dr. Sam Woods' first trip to Ethiopia to provide medical care to people with ear, nose and throat ailments grew into a nonprofit…

According to research published in Urologic Oncology, some kidney cancer patients have better long-term survival odds when part of the kidney is removed,…

As we get older, we can lose our hair, our eyesight, but the affect aging has on our hearing can be less apparent. And how can we stop hearing loss? This…