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If you have a hearing impairment, you may have experienced unpleasant accompanying side effects, which can drastically reduce your quality of life. Hearing loss impacts your lifestyle and your physical and mental health and is even linked to cognitive decline....
To help people in the Menlo Park and Los Altos communities recognize the value of investing in hearing aids, we’ve made a list of some of the benefits you can expect. Hearing Conversations Despite Background Noise The design of modern hearing aids focuses on enhancing...
Patients (especially males!) are often very self-conscious about the look of hearing aids and feeling old. Dr. Jane Baxter, Au.D. walks us through how she tackles this social obstacle in her office: I handle each patient differently. Sometimes I take a hearing aid and...
At Pacific Hearing Service, we want to educate our patients and the community about the importance of hearing health. That’s why we held a symposium with Dr. Achin Bhowmik about how the future of hearing aid technology is more than just a hearing aid. Dr. Bhowmik...
In the world of smartphones, gadgets that do just about anything, and lightning-fast internet at our fingertips, people have come to demand flexibility and control over the products that they use. Sure, when you get hearing aids, you’d probably love to put them on and...
During a Pacific Hearing Service humanitarian trip to Turks and Caicos, the team was able to bring the gift of hearing to a woman who hasn’t been able to for years. The woman – who asked us not to use her name – had hearing aids when she was a little girl but lost...
There were many high points while working in a makeshift audiology clinic on Grand Turks last month. One of our favorite encounters was with a young man named Desjohn, who lost his hearing aids during the 2008 hurricane, and for the last ten years, has had a severely...
Sometimes the best help we can provide to our patients has nothing to do with hearing aids. This was the case during a humanitarian trip to Turks and Caicos for our Pacific Hearing Service team this month. We worked with a four-year-old who was a huge challenge to...