An online test promises to reveal the age of your ears — all via playing sounds through your headphones. The minute-long test, popularized by UK-based educational organization eChalk, works by playing ...

You may have observed that older people have more difficulty following a conversation in a noisy environment. Most people attribute this problem to being deaf. However, many of these people are not ...

Hearing tests can be classified into two main types: diagnostic and screening. Screening tests that employ pure tone audiometry via basic air conduction are utilized to rapidly assess whether more ...

This type of hearing loss, also known as functional hearing loss and pseudohypacusis, involves a reduction in the hearing ability which is not explained by any anatomic or physiologic irregularities ...