Healthy Ears...
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Can Earphones Damage Your Hearing?
It is well known that long term exposure to loud noise can damage hearing, sometimes so severely that it can induce deafness. Noise in the workplace is one of the...
Dangers of Workplace Noise
In the early days of the industrial revolution in the 19th century, large factories and mills had machinery that made an incredibly loud noise for the whole of the...
Ear Piercing And Health
Ear Piercing And Health
Ear piercing has been used as a method of displaying body jewellery for many years in any different cultures. Modern piercing includes...
Ear Trauma: Causes and Effects
Ear trauma is a term that covers any sort of physical damage to any part of the ear that is caused by an external force or event. It does not cover the effect of...
How The Ear Works
The ear is very delicate and extremely clever instrument comprising of a complex design of structures. The ear allows us to hear sounds and to balance due to the nature...
How the Inner Ear Helps You Walk Straight
Human babies first learn to walk when they are an average of a year old. Some are able to stand and balance tentatively on two feet from the age...
How to Protect Your Ears
Many conditions of hearing impairment or discomfort can be avoided by employing a few basic hygiene guidelines and some common sense.
Damage from Water
Damage to...
How Well Do You Know Your Ears?
We often take our ears for granted but each of our ears is much more than the curly flap of skin on the side of the head. Inside, this remarkable sensory organ...
How Your Genes Shape Your Ear Lobes
Like the face, the way your ear looks is a unique feature of your body. Although ears look similar, there are small differences in shape and structure of the pinna...
Living with a Cochlear Implant
Until she was 29, Ellie was able to hear perfectly. As the mother of two young children she was still working part-time as a receptionist for a local firm of...
Looking After Your Ears
Ears are very special and delicate instruments that require some very basic care and attention in order to maintain their general health.
Hygiene Needs
General...
The Ears and Culture
For most people in the UK the ears exist purely to assist us in the ability to hear sound, for some of these people they also act as part of our aesthetic make-up...
The Impact of Flight on the Ears
Anyone who has ever flown in a ‘plane knows that landing can be agony if you have a cold with a stuffed up nose and blocked ears. As the ‘plane comes down,...
What Has Sea Sickness Got to Do With the Ear?
Getting car sick, air sick or sea sick makes you feel very unwell but it is nothing really to do with the stomach, although it might seem that...
What's the Point of Earwax?
If you have problems with ear wax, and need to have your ear wax softened and removed regularly, you may be forgiven for thinking it is just a nuisance. Excess ear...
Will Gene Therapy Reverse Deafness?
Deafness is currently irreversible if the hair cells and nerves that detect and transmit sound in the inner ear are destroyed. Stem cell treatment and new drugs are...
