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Hearing loss
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Two hearing aids beat one in the first trial to test it, by a margin the authors won't call meaningful
Fitting both ears is standard practice and has never been tested properly. Randomizing 275 older adults found the two-aid group ahead, and the researchers are careful about how far ahead.
Sep 4, 2026
Hearing loss tracked worse memory and smaller brain regions; tinnitus tracked neither
Hearing loss is on every list of things that raise dementia risk, and the usual explanation is a brain starved of sound. Scanning 2,144 German adults found the damage sitting partly in the blood vessels instead.
Sep 2, 2026
Practice at brain tests hides a year of cognitive decline
Older adults get better at cognitive tests simply by taking them again. In 977 people across 2,571 assessments, that practice gain was large enough to cancel out about a year of age-related decline.
Aug 17, 2026
Tinnitus can show up when the hearing test looks normal
A study of 267,395 American veterans found 86% had hearing loss and 47% had tinnitus. Some had the ringing alongside normal hearing thresholds, which points at ear damage a standard hearing test does not detect.
Aug 17, 2026