Archive for May, 2006

Willcox And Graham Clinch Titles
Lawn Tennis Association - Peter Willcox and Catherine Graham won the Men s and Women s Singles titles respectively during a dramatic finals day at the 2006 National Deaf Tennis Championships in Gloucester. Second seed and defending champion Willcox got the better of top

Chloride imbalance may cause hearing loss
Yale Daily News - Two years ago, political commentator Rush Limbaugh dismissed in his blog the importance of School of Medicine surgery and neurobiology professor Joseph Santos-Sacchi’s in vitro chloride ion and hearing study. But Limbaugh recently received a cochlear

Ten top health charities awarded 210,000 in GlaxoSmithKline IMPACT
WebWire - 19 April 2006 - Hartlepool Families First (HFF), an exceptional child and health care charity which targets hard-to-reach communities, has won 30,000 as the Overall Winner of the GlaxoSmithKline IMPACT Awards, in conjunction with the King s Fund

Deductions That Shouldn’t Be Missed
Street.Com - So I TiVo my favorite shows, send emails to my phone so I can be at dance class while I’m, uh, working, and became a “premier” credit card holder at Bloomingdale’s so I can get the first crack at the sales. I feel the same way about missing

How iPods Can Make you Rich, Rich, Rich
Canada Free Press - Anyone interested in a hot tip on how to make a lot of money without any risk? It s not my job to pass along financial advice, but in this instance I can t resist the urge. Invest in a hearing aid company, because the next generation is going deaf

The Star Still Smolders
LA Times - SANTA MARIA, Calif. It’s five minutes to show time. Jane Russell gingerly folds her glasses and sips her Sprite. At 84, she needs a little help up the single step to the tiny stage in the darkened hotel bar. Her eyes aren’t what they used to be

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Program aims to inspire youths to tend their ears
Palm Beach Daily News, FL - 5 hours ago… Looking back, she said their well-intentioned help enabled her to delay seeking a real solution. Hearing aids were useful to a point. …

FEMA reaches out, even to those hesitant to seek aid
Jackson Sun, TN - 23 hours ago… to her hearing. “I don’t hear good; I wear hearing aids and I don’t know if I had them in or not,” she said. Regardless, she said …

A home away from home
The Columbian, WA - 15 hours ago… They do not provide what a blind child needs.” Complicating matters was Kaylee’s poor hearing, for which she wears hearing aids a second disability common for …

The Star Still Smolders
Los Angeles Times, CA - 3 hours ago… hotel bar. Her eyes aren’t what they used to be she has macular degeneration and she wears hearing aids in both ears. But …

Mainstream education
The Columbian, WA - 15 hours ago… Even with bilateral hearing aids, Christina, 18, has only about 20 percent of normal hearing. She was born with 3 percent hearing. …

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