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<title><![CDATA[Gates, Bloomberg pool riches to fight smoking (AP)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[AP - Microsoft founder Bill Gates and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg are pooling their piles of money to pour $375 million into a global effort to cut smoking. &nbsp; <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Free content on Feedzilla</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:58:31 PDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hearing Test May Measure Cognitive Decline]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Central auditory testing may act as an early screen for cognitive decline in the elderly, researchers here said.  In a study of 313 patients at least 71 years old, several measures of central auditory processing were impaired in those diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and, to a lesser extent, those with memory impairment but not meeting criteria for Alzheimer's, reported George A. Gates, M.D., of the University of Washington, and colleagues in the July issue of Archives of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery.  Central auditory processing is the brain function involved in interpreting complex sounds such as speech. &nbsp; <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Free RSS news feeds on Feedzilla</a>]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[ http://www.4hearingloss.com/archives/2008/07/hearing_test_ma.html]]></link>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hearing birds chirp is music to my ears]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Single-sided deafness is a type of hearing loss where there is no functional hearing ability in one ear. This condition can cause many problems such as headaches, irritability, tinnitus, difficulty distinguishing where sounds are coming from (resulting in possible safety issues) and decreased attention during conversation.  All of this can lead to social isolation and even depression. If you are feeling this way, there is a new technology, the Baha implant, that can restore your hearing. You can avoid years of grief and unnecessary surgeries.  I gradually lost my hearing when I was in my 30s. Initially, I had hearing loss in both ears. The first procedure that was used, stapedectomy, was done on both ears. The stapes bone was removed and wire was inserted to vibrate the sound. The surgery worked for years, until a car accident knocked the wire off. &nbsp; <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Free content on Feedzilla</a>]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[ http://www.4hearingloss.com/archives/2008/07/hearing_birds_c.html]]></link>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Advanced Bionics Settles Financial Suit With FDA]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Advanced Bionics has agreed to settle an administrative complaint arising from a disagreement with the FDA.  The FDA asserted that Advanced Bionics should have made a formal submission five years ago before using a second vendor for a particular component in its cochlear implant system.  The component, called a feedthru, contained a hidden weakness that allowed a very slow leak of water molecules into the implanted devices containing this vendor's feedthru's while blocking the passage of much smaller helium and nitrogen gases. &nbsp; <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Free RSS news feeds on Feedzilla</a>]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[ http://www.4hearingloss.com/archives/2008/07/advanced_bionic.html]]></link>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hearing Aid Mistaken for Bluetooth Headset Stolen]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A young boy and his mother were having lunch at a McDonalds when someone suddenly stole the boy's hearing aid.  Three-year-old Jose Franco still doesn't understand why his world went silent. He was born deaf and relies on a Cochlear implant to hear. Last week, while playing at a Los Angeles McDonalds, two teenage boys stole the external portion of the device called The Speech Processor.  ''Suddenly someone came from behind and took his implant off his head,'' said Jose's mother Hilda Giron. &nbsp; <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Free RSS news feeds on Feedzilla</a>]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[ http://www.4hearingloss.com/archives/2008/07/hearing_aid_mis.html]]></link>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Romanian Girl Gets Cochlear Implant]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Francesca Burcea was born with normal hearing 3-1/2 years ago in her native Romania. She had started to say a few words when she contracted meningitis at 18 months. It spared her life but took her hearing. Doctors aren't sure why the disease can have that complication. It could be the disease process itself, the high fevers or even the life-saving medicines that doctors need to prescribe.  Francesca's father called his sister, Kristina Bigu in the St. Louis area to ask if there was anything she knew of that could help. She asked St. Louis audiologist, Stanton Jones and he suggested a cochlear implant. They are not available in Romania, so Kristina appealed to Dr. Jones for help. That got the ball rolling. &nbsp; <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Free content on Feedzilla</a>]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[ http://www.4hearingloss.com/archives/2008/07/romanian_girl_g.html]]></link>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bill aims to inform about deaf, blind school choice]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Students from across the state attend the CSB and the CSD, including many from rural districts where there are insufficient resources to provide adequate services to deaf and blind students.  Currently, parents and guardians of disabled children are given a notice of procedural safeguards that provides them with an overview of their educational rights. The notice must be given to parents the first time their child is referred for a special education assessment.  Under Torrico's bill, the notice would include information regarding the School for the Blind and the School for the Deaf.  The Assembly also voted 64-0 to approve AB 2604, a Torrico bill that encourages cities and counties to defer the collection of development impact fees to the close of escrow, with the exception of school impact fees. &nbsp; <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Free content on Feedzilla</a>]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[ http://www.4hearingloss.com/archives/2008/07/bill_aims_to_in.html]]></link>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[What's it like to be deaf?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The learning station was about being deaf, and one little girl wanted to know how deaf people learn to talk.  The teacher, 26-year-old Mary Ryan, a certified teacher of the deaf and hard of hearing, told the child that to learn to speak, deaf people feel the throats of their teachers while they are speaking. They also watch their teachers lips as they talk and learn to imitate sounds.  The child was attending Ability Awareness Day on June 27 in Elk Grove, a collaboration of the Northwest Special Recreation Association (NWSRA) and Elk Grove Park District day camps. The goal was to provide campers with training on the challenges people with various disabilities face. &nbsp; <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Free content on Feedzilla</a>]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[ http://www.4hearingloss.com/archives/2008/07/whats_it_like_t.html]]></link>
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<title><![CDATA[After the Cochlear Implant, Other Costs]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[FatiSurraiya's son has just received a cochlear implant, but she is worried about the ongoing costs associated with the new cochlear implant (hearing aids have ongoing costs too). She asked... &nbsp; <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Free news widgets on Feedzilla</a>]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[ http://deafness.about.com/b/2008/07/22/after-the-cochlear-implant-other-costs.htm]]></link>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Vietnamese Deaf Tours]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Dung, a hard of hearing Vietnamese tour guide, has posted on the forum promoting the tours for deaf and hard of hearing in Vietnam. Dung also shares about her frustrations... &nbsp; <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Free content on Feedzilla</a>]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[ http://deafness.about.com/b/2008/07/19/vietnamese-deaf-tours.htm]]></link>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Frustration with McDonald's Mounts...Now a Lawsuit]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Been rather busy in my personal life lately, but my mother alerted me to this article about a ''hearing-impaired'' woman who filed a lawsuit against McDonald's over their refusal to... &nbsp; <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Free RSS news feeds on Feedzilla</a>]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[ http://deafness.about.com/b/2008/07/17/frustration-with-mcdonalds-mountsnow-a-lawsuit.htm]]></link>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Medical Student Losing Hearing]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Pradip, a dental student has posted on the forum about what happened after he had surgery to try to fix a problem with otosclerosis. Instead, he became deaf in his... &nbsp; <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Free news widgets on Feedzilla</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[How to Prove It was Hearing Loss Not Slowness?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I got this e-mail from this gentleman who lost his job due to his hearing loss, but the employer claims it was ''slowness.'' When he tried to take appropriate... &nbsp; <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Free content on Feedzilla</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[How Do You Define Success with a Cochlear Implant?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[How do you define success with a cochlear implant? My understanding is that it is a very individual thing. For myself, I define success as being able to understand speech... &nbsp; <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Free news widgets on Feedzilla</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Cochlear Implants Attractive to Thieves]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[As soon as I read the Los Angeles Times story ''That's not a Bluetooth headset'' I wondered how much of a problem this is nationally? This story tells about a... &nbsp; <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Free RSS news feeds on Feedzilla</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ultrasonic Frogs Able To Tune Their Ears To Different Frequencies Could Have Implications For Human Hearing]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Researchers have discovered that a frog that lives near noisy springs in central China can tune its ears to different sound frequencies, much like the tuner on a radio can shift from one frequency to another. It is the only known example of an animal that can actively select what frequencies it hears, the researchers say. &nbsp; <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Free content on Feedzilla</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Memory Problems Tied to Sound Processing Disorder (HealthDay)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[HealthDay - TUESDAY, July 22 (HealthDay News) -- Mild memory impairment may be associated with a sound processing disorder called central auditory processing dysfunction, say U.S. researchers. &nbsp; <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Free news widgets on Feedzilla</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:47:26 PDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Researchers Find Link Between Dementia And Sound Processing]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[People who find it difficult to hear in complex situations with  competing noise (such as one conversation among many) are also likely  to suffer from mild memory impairment, according to a new study in the  July issue of Archives of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck  Surgery.    Central auditory processing dysfunction is the term that researchers  use for this type of hearing disorder. &nbsp; <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Free news widgets on Feedzilla</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hybrid Cars Pose Risk to Blind, Visually Impaired (HealthDay)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[HealthDay - MONDAY, July 21 (HealthDay News) -- Because they can be nearly silent, hybrid cars pose a serious threat of injury and death to blind and visually impaired people, says the American Council of the Blind, which is pushing the auto industry and government officials to develop ways to reduce this danger. &nbsp; <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Free RSS news feeds on Feedzilla</a>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:47:26 PDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[All Newborns Should Have Ears Screened, Task Force Says]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Title: All Newborns Should Have Ears Screened, Task Force SaysCategory: Health NewsCreated: 7/19/2008 2:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 7/21/2008 &nbsp; <a href='http://www.feedzilla.com/'>Free content on Feedzilla</a>]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[ http://www.medicinenet.com/guide.asp?s=rss&a=91166&k=Deafness_Specialty]]></link>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT</pubDate>
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