Link Found Between Antibiotics and Chronic Ear, Sinus and Lung Infections


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Researchers from the University of Southern California (USC) and the Oak Crest Institute of Science, have discovered the link between antibiotics and bacterial biofilm formation leading to chronic lung, sinus and ear infections. The study results, published in the current issue of PLOS ONE, illustrate how bacterial biofilms can actually thrive, rather than decrease, when

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Your Workplace May Be Louder Than Your Boss Thinks


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Employers and employees are not in tune on their perceptions of workplace noise, according to new research sponsored by EPIC Hearing Healthcare. The national survey of 1,500 full-time employed Americans and nearly 500 benefits professionals showed drastic differences in employee and employer perceptions of whether their workplace is “noisy.” According to the survey, when employees are

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Mice Study at Harvard Shows Regeneration of Hearing Nerves


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Harvard scientists have made an unexpected and potentially useful discovery that the sound-sensing cells of the mammalian ear—called hair cells–can be replaced, at least at low levels. Despite years of evidence indicating that ear sensory cells do not regenerate if lost, new research from the laboratory of Albert Edge, PhD, shows that it is possible

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