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War Veterans’ Concussions Are Often Overlooked
he felt his injuries had gone unrecognized by the military “because there was no blood” and because he chose to work through his pain.
Former Staff Sgt. Kevin Owsley is not quite sure what rattled his brain in 2004: the roadside bomb that exploded about a yard from his Humvee or the rocket-propelled grenade that flung him across a road as he walked to a Porta Potti on base six weeks later.
Soldier’s Story Illustrates Risks of Hearing Loss During War
…he couldn’t hear well enough to tell where the sniper fire was coming from. “I had no idea,” he wrote.
To sleep, he listens to rock music on his iPod, a common means of coping for troops with tinnitus, says Army MAJ Dan Ohama, an audiologist working in Baghdad.
Higher Rates of Hearing Loss are Found
Among people 20 to 29, it said, 8.5 percent showed some hearing loss, with the incidence apparently on the rise.
A new study suggests that hearing loss among Americans may be more widespread than previously thought.
New Drug Could Prevent Hearing Loss From Chemotherapy
Currently there are no FDA approved drugs for the prevention and treatment of drug induced hearing loss or ototoxicity.
Sound Pharmaceuticals Inc (SPI) has announced the filing of an investigational new drug application with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the clinical testing of a proprietary formulation of ebselen for the prevention of chemotherapy-induced hearing loss or ototoxicity.