by Neil Bauman, Ph.D., with Steve Barber You want to be careful to match mono plugs to mono jacks and stereo plugs to stereo jacks when using music equipment. If you don’t, you can end up with problems. My friend Steve explained, I’d been happily using my neckloop (a standard Williams neckloop) with my iPod […]
Life with a Cochlear Implant—Before and After
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D., with Michele and Dawn People have asked me about cochlear implants (CIs), and want to know whether a CI might be a good choice to help them hear better. They want to know what kind of hearing results they might expect. I can’t think of a better way to explain this, […]
As Your Kidneys Go, So Goes Your Hearing
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. For centuries, Chinese herbalists have proclaimed that your ears and your kidneys are “connected”. In other words, what affects your kidneys, also affects your ears (or maybe it is vice versa). This is nothing new. What is new is that modern medical science is finally realizing just how true this is. […]
New 3rd Edition of “Ototoxic Drugs Exposed” Now Available
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. People have asked me, When are you going to update the 2nd edition of your book Ototoxic Drugs Exposed, which is now about 8 years old? There are many new drugs that have come out since you put out the 2nd edition. We want to know which of these new drugs […]
Time Traveler Using Cell Phone, or Old Hearing Aid?
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. I’ve had a number of people ask me concerning a portion of an “outtake” of a 1928 Charlie Chaplin movie—wondering whether what was being shown was a time traveler using a modern cell phone back in 1928, or whether it was, more realistically, a person using an old hearing aid. For […]
“Disease Branding”—How the Drug Companies Make Billions of Dollars Selling Drugs—and Damage Your Ears in the Process
by Neil Bauman, Ph.D. Below is the first part of a revealing article that shows how the drug companies “hook you” into taking their drugs for conditions that never were diseases in the first place—like shyness. When you take drugs, you also expose your body to drug side effects. Some of these side effects (ototoxic […]