Megan Gerhart, Au.D. received her doctorate of audiology from the University of Florida. She has experience helping pediatrics to geriatrics both in private practice and medical models of care. She ...

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Please Note: Blog posts are not selected, edited or screened by Seeking Alpha editors. If you would like to measure the exposure of a person to unwanted noise for a certain period, you can easily know ...

We live in a noisy world, from traffic and aircraft congestion to construction sites, TV shows, and many other sources. But understanding dB measurements can help, as we will soon see. Noise is an ...

A new study from the University of Oulu has found that nighttime noise exposure is associated with changes in blood ...

Getting medical staff to adopt some simple measures on three hospital wards reduced noise levels by just under 20 percent -- from 96.48 decibels to 77.52 decibels. Hospitals can be very noisy places.

In A Nutshell Researchers did not establish direct cause and effect, but the findings add to growing evidence that chronic ...

Sound is pressure — the louder the sound, the greater the pressure. The greater the pressure, the more damage it can do to your ears. If you’re in a noisy environment, it’s important to know how ...