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		<title>Hidden Hearing Dublin Celebrates 25th Year!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 13:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hidden Hearing, Ireland’s largest hearing healthcare provider,  this week celebrated its 25th birthday in Dublin.  Since it opened the branch at 49 Middle Abbey St., Dublin it has been offering customers the best professional hearing care, help and advice.  Pictured are Veronica Kelly, Noel Cullen, Branch Manager, Jennifer Berrill and Stephen Leddy, Managing Director of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hiddenhearingireland.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16289221&#038;post=1490&#038;subd=hiddenhearingireland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Newborn screening cuts referral times by over two years</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 10:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Cooke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE TIME taken for detection of hearing loss in babies and follow-up intervention has been cut from 30 months to less than three months since the introduction of a newborn hearing screening programme at Cork University Maternity Hospital a year ago. More than 8,000 babies have been scanned at the Cork hospital since the programme [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hiddenhearingireland.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16289221&#038;post=1488&#038;subd=hiddenhearingireland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hidden Hearing Promotes Tinnitus Awareness Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 20:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hidden Hearing  is helping to promote Tinnitus Awareness Week – a single week that is set aside to focus specifically on increasing public awareness about tinnitus and most importantly the need for increased funding for tinnitus research. There currently is no known cure for tinnitus. Although it is important to note that a study published [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hiddenhearingireland.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16289221&#038;post=1486&#038;subd=hiddenhearingireland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>92 year old Cork woman gets FREE test!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 15:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hidden Hearing, Ireland’s leading provider of hearing healthcare today offered a free hearing test to a 92 year old Cork woman who has been told she will have to wait four years for a HSE assessment.  Hidden Hearing has also committed to offering the woman a 20% discount if she is found to require a hearing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hiddenhearingireland.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16289221&#038;post=1482&#038;subd=hiddenhearingireland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Drug treatments to prevent the onset of tinnitus could soon be developed</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 14:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Cooke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first drug treatments to prevent the onset of tinnitus could soon be developed after doctors discovered how to tone down overactive neurons in the brain. Researchers from the University Of Leicester have identified a key cellular mechanism that could underlie the development of ringing in the ears following exposure to loud noises. The discovery [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hiddenhearingireland.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16289221&#038;post=1479&#038;subd=hiddenhearingireland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Avoid Hearing Loss</title>
		<link>http://hiddenhearingireland.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/how-to-avoid-hearing-loss/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 13:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Cooke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can wear a helmet to protect your head, gloves for your hands and safety glasses for your eyes. You also can take steps to protect your ears from hearing loss that can affect your ability to understand normal speech. Noise-induced hearing loss can occur painlessly and over an extended period of time. But it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hiddenhearingireland.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16289221&#038;post=1477&#038;subd=hiddenhearingireland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is Otosclerosis?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 11:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Cooke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Otosclerosis is an abnormal bone growth in the middle ear that causes hearing loss. Causes, incidence, and risk factors The cause of otosclerosis is unknown. However, there is some evidence that it may be passed down through families. People who have otosclerosis have an abnormal sponge-like bone growing in the middle ear. This growth prevents the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hiddenhearingireland.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16289221&#038;post=1473&#038;subd=hiddenhearingireland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My life was a war against noise</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 10:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Cooke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MY HEALTH EXPERIENCE: Shaolin Chi Kung saved me from the curse of tinnitus, relates KEVIN BARRY MY STORY begins in the Canadian city of Calgary. It was here on July 22nd, 2000 that my life took an unexpected and nasty turn as the result of a few hours spent drinking in The Back Alley nightclub. The music [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hiddenhearingireland.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16289221&#038;post=1470&#038;subd=hiddenhearingireland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dad … Dad? DAD! It’s Time to Get a Hearing Test — Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 10:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Cooke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dad is also concerned a hearing aid would spoil the hearing he still had left, because it would feed back or amplify really loud sounds. I admit, I had wondered about that too. Modern hearing aids have made great strides. Digital technology allows the hearing aid to monitor and control sound levels. Devices are programmed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hiddenhearingireland.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16289221&#038;post=1467&#038;subd=hiddenhearingireland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 10:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. Cooke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You’d better take a deep breath and call from the top of your lungs if you want him to hear you from the living room. Forget about talking to him on the phone—he won’t even answer it. He calls you a “mumbler.” The television volume is on max, always. He just won’t admit he can’t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hiddenhearingireland.wordpress.com&#038;blog=16289221&#038;post=1463&#038;subd=hiddenhearingireland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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