by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A lady explained, I just wanted to send you this link to see if you have seen this before and if it is anything worth looking into for my tinnitus. I’m very hesitant. I checked out this website. This website is basically a high-pressure sales website that is long on hype […]
Service Animals Defined as Dogs Only
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) gave disabled people the right to bring their service animals with them into public places and on public transportation. Unfortunately, this soon became abused as it didn’t take long before people were defining various animals as their service animal—so there were “service” pigs, monkeys, birds, […]
Do You Have to Worry about Ototoxicity if You’ve Already Lost Your Hearing?
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A lady asked, After you’ve already lost all your hearing, what difference does it make whether the drug you are taking is ototoxic or not? That’s a good question. If you now have no useful hearing remaining, you wouldn’t think you’d have to worry about taking ototoxic drugs, would you? I […]
Angels Singing, or Musical Ear Syndrome?
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A man wrote: My 70ish mother has just started ‘hearing’ phantom singing. She is hearing hymns sung by angels and sometimes the beating of drums. She is a church-goer and as long as i can remember has been humming hymns at home. A few months ago she became aware she was […]
Coping with Recruitment
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. A lady explained: My audiologist says I have severe recruitment and hyperacusis—sound really hurts my ears. I’ve worn ear plugs most of my life, not so much to guard my hearing against sounds that would do more damage (though it’s common sense to wear ear plugs during those events that would […]
Press “H” for Human—The Latest Update
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. Back in August 19, 2006 I wrote a short article called “