The Hear Daily

Hearing loss is a serious health hazard for veterans.  Consider this:

More than 45,000 vets from Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom have hearing loss.
Of the 300,000 vets from the post 9/11/01 conflict, tinnitus is the #1 disability and hearing loss is #2.
35% of returning troops from Iraq and Afghanistan have hearing loss.

Any decibel above […]

One side effect of having hearing loss is the tendency to turn things up, way up, so we can hear them. Normal sounds that we don’t control, like a dog barking or a truck passing us on the highway are loud to others, but may be not too loud to us. But, increasing the volume […]