Articles tagged with 'Ear Nose and Throat' | Keck Medicine of USC

LOS ANGELES — Hearing loss affects approximately 40 million American adults, yet only one in 10 people who need hearing aids use them, research shows.  Those who don’t use hearing aids but should may want to make wearing them one of their …

LOS ANGELES — Up to three out of every 1,000 infants in the United States are born with profound hearing loss.Typically, infants with hearing loss are first treated with hearing aids, and if these fail to help them develop early language and speech …

Infectious disease experts have long known that the best the way to keep a deadly virus from spreading across hospital wards is to confine contagious patients to negative-pressure rooms. Now researchers at the USC Tina and Rick Caruso Department …

It’s well known that exposure to extremely loud noises — whether it’s an explosion, a firecracker or even a concert — can lead to permanent hearing loss. But knowing how to treat noise-induced hearing loss, which affects …