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August 29, 2025
How Medication Can Affect Hearing
Can Your Medication Affect Your Hearing? Here’s What You Should Know and How We Can Help When we talk about hearing loss and the potential causes, we often focus on the effects of loud noise or our age – but many common medications can also impact your hearing and balance. What is Ototoxicity? Ototoxicity is the medical term for ‘ear...
August 21, 2025
Young, Healthy… but Risking their Hearing?
Why Noise-Induced Hearing Loss is Rising in ‘the Most Health-Conscious Generation’ They’re cutting out alcohol. Eating plant-based diets. Spending more time outdoors and talking openly about mental health. Generation Z and younger millennials are, by many measures, the most health-conscious generations we’ve seen. And yet, when it comes to hearing health, they may be walking straight into the mistakes of...
August 11, 2025
Hearing Loss and Balance: Is there a Connection?
As we age, our risk of falling increases. In fact, around one in three adults over 65 experiences at least one fall a year. For those aged over 80, that figure rises to one in two. Falls are the leading cause of injury-related hospital admissions among older adults in the UK and can have serious consequences for health, independence, and...
August 3, 2025
How Diabetes Affects Hearing
… And Why It Matters for Your Brain Health. If you have diabetes, you already know how important it is to manage your blood sugar and protect your heart, eyes, and kidneys. But did you know your hearing could also be at risk? And, as we’ve discussed many times in these updates, hearing loss can also affect how your brain...