A long-term study of older adults with moderate hearing loss found that hearing aids did not lead to better performance on memory or thinking tests, but the story did not end there. Over seven years, ...

It's just a fact of life: As we get older, our hearing declines, little by little. Although many of us have noticeable hearing loss by the time we're in our 40s, most of us don't act on it until later ...

Doctors may diagnose hearing loss using a range of techniques, such as audiometry tests, brainstem auditory evoked response tests, and otoacoustic emissions tests. Hearing loss can affect one or both ...