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7 hrs ago | Lexington Herald-Leader

Kentucky Deaf-Blind Project helps Lexington boy master the technology he needs

Joseph Boggs' vision is so impaired that it is as if he is looking through two straws.

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Related Topix: Kentucky, Lexington, KY, Medicine, Dropbox, iPod touch App, iPad App, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App, University of Kentucky

Sat May 18, 2013

The News-Gazette

50-year-old Parkland grad: 'Don't let anything get in your way'

Standing in front of the "A Wing" building at Parkland College in 2009, Paulette Johnson grabbed the door handle, then dropped her hand.

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Related Topix: Champaign, IL, Medicine

RollingStone

Superchunk Bassist Laura Ballance Won't Tour With Band

Superchunk are releasing a new album I Hate Music this August, but bassist and founding member Laura Ballance won't be joining them on the road to promote it.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Superchunk, Medicine, Music, Entertainment

Fri May 17, 2013

The Daily WTF

Error'd: Screw You Oracle Interceptor

"I work for an IT department in a large department store and while scanning through some old code, I ran upon this gem," writes Steve C. , "I can't say that I disagree!" Evi Vanoost wrote, "Wells Fargo needs to make up it's mind.

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Related Topix: Medicine

The Mountaineer Publishing Company

"Free" Hearing Screening

The North Carolina Dvision of Services for the Deaf and the Hard of Hearing will be giving "FREE" hearing screenings today from 9 am to 4 pm.

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Related Topix: Medicine

The Miami Herald

Hearing clinic opens house Tuesday-Thursday for audio tests

The Hearing and Speech Center of Florida is be offering free hearing screenings and consultations with an audiologist during an open house May 21-24. As the third leading chronic disability, hearing loss affects 10 percent of children and 50 percent of the elderly population.

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Related Topix: Florida, Medicine

WTVM

Cellphone use may reveal your dominant brain

New research suggests the dominant side of your brain may make the call on which ear you choose to use while talking on your cellphone.

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Related Topix: Cellphones, Medicine

BBC News

Rubella fears after measles epidemic

Health officials have warned that action is needed to prevent a rubella outbreak, which can be particularly dangerous to pregnant women.

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Related Topix: Epidemic, Natural Disasters, Health, Mumps, Medicine, Vaccinations

The Montgomery Advertiser

Maxwell medics return from supporting New Horizons

Eight members of the 42nd Medical Group returned recently from Belize after supporting a 14-day medical readiness training exercise called New Horizons.

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Related Topix: Medicine, US Military, US Marine Corps, Dentistry, US Air Force

Malvern Gazette

Mother's brain tumour dilemma

DECISION: Derrie Tuston has the rare life-changing condition neurofibromatosis type two, which causes nervous system tumours in the brain and spine.

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Related Topix: Medicine

Thu May 16, 2013

Scoop

UC researches hearing and speaking of ageing population

At the end of 2011, Statistics New Zealand indicated 13 percent of the population were older than 65, and predicted that, in the next 20 years, the figure would increase to more than 20 percent.

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Related Topix: Oceania, New Zealand, World News, Medicine, Parkinson's Disease, Health

Patch.com

Athens Oconee Audiology Shares News on Regal Cinemas' Closed-Captioning Glasses for the Deaf

A Watkinsville medical equipment business that specializes in hearing and hearing devices shared news on its Facebook page Wednesday afternoon that Regal Cinemas plans to begin offering closed-captioned glasses.

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Related Topix: Oconee, GA, Medicine, Watkinsville, GA

Examiner.com

IPods, exercise and hearing loss, a growing concern

Years ago when the writer made a decision to improve his health through exercise, he felt that music could be one way to help motivate him more.

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Hays Daily News

Woods earns doctorate

Whitney Woods of Norman, Okla., received a doctorate of audiology from the College of Allied Health at the University of Oklahoma.

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Related Topix: Norman, OK, Medicine, University of Oklahoma

BellaOnline

Losing our processors or hearing aids

When we rely on some sort of device to hear it can be devastating if we lose or damage one.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Home Gardening, Home

Wed May 15, 2013

Swindon Advertiser

Surgeon's top award

A CONSULTANT at the Great Western Hospital and his anaesthetist colleagues have been awarded a prestigious award for their charity work in Nepal.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Surgery, Otolaryngology

Star-Telegram.com

Lifetime Hearing Care

Not valid with any other offers. Expires 5/31/13. SurflinkA media device Brand: Advertiser Information Price: $500.00 Description: SurflinkA media device for the first 10 customers! $500 VALUE Limit one per person.

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Related Topix: Medicine

Examiner.com

17-year cicada invasion threatens upcoming weddings

The 2013 wedding season is just starting to pick up steam, but as brides and grooms on the East Coast gear up for their coming nuptials, another creature is also getting ready for a mating dance of its own.

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Related Topix: Wedding, Medicine

Lowell Sun

Remember to order your testing records

I decided to write in order to make other returning adult college students with learning disabilities aware of the seven-year rule concerning their educational testing.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Bay Path College, Opinion

Capital Soup

Florida PSC Approves Florida Relay System Budget

Florida's Public Service Commission today approved the annual budget for Florida Telecommunications Relay, Inc.

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Related Topix: Florida, Florida Government, Rick Scott, US Governors, Medicine