Hearing loss on rise among U.S. teenagers
One in five American teenagers already has some degree of hearing loss — a figure that’s risen sharply since the late 1980s, new research has found.Why isn’t clear, though the period the researchers looked at has seen the rise of portable music players and earbuds.The researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston used government survey data to compare rates of hearing loss among 12 …
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