May 13 (UPI) --Could loneliness occur for some older folks because they can't hear well enough to maintain essential social connections? Hearing aids appear to be an effective method of countering an ...

A community advisory board meeting for the Pitt Men's Study. This month marks 40 years since the Pitt Men's Study started enrolling volunteers in what has become one of the longest-running U.S.

Roughly 40 million adults in the U.S. have hearing loss, but most don't use hearing aids. This increases the risk of social isolation, physical... Hearing aids may boost longevity, study finds. But ...

A new observational study suggests that hearing aids may help lower the risk of dementia, but with a caveat. It found that participants with hearing loss who began using a hearing aid before turning ...

In a Pittsburgh hospital in the early 1980s, Charles Rinaldo saw a young, previously healthy gay man critically ill with a virus usually only seen in weakened immune systems. Around the same time, ...

Wearing hearing aids could increase life span, a new study has found. Research by the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California found that people who wear hearing aids regularly ...

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) has published a new study in The Lancet HIV journal that revealed significant progress in the global fight against HIV/AIDS, alongside a stark ...

Approximately 48 million Americans have some degree of hearing loss, but only one in five people who would benefit from a hearing aid actually uses one, per the Hearing Loss Association of America.

Though the prevalence of disability continues to rise among the over fifties, many people do not have access to the mobility aids—such as canes, walkers, or wheelchairs—that are essential for ...