Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
The World Report on Hearing (WRH) has been developed in response to the World Health Assembly resolution (WHA70.13), adopted in 2017 as a means of providing guidance for Member States to integrate ear and hearing care into their national health plans. Based on the best available evidence, this report presents …
WHO estimates that over 5% of the world’s population – 360 million people - has disabling hearing loss. The highest prevalence is found in the Asia Pacific, South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. About half of all cases of hearing loss worldwide are easily prevented or treated. However, just 32 of …
Ludwig van Beethoven and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had hearing impairment. So did the rock guitarist Pete Townsend. But musicians enjoy better hearing, a Canadian study suggests. The study, published in Psychology and Aging, carried out hearing tests on 74 adult musicians, and 89 non-musicians. It found a 70-year-old musician’s speech …
according to the Encyclopedia of Deafness and Hearing Disorders (second edition), roughly 0.1 per cent of the world's population is deaf. Scientists of University of Illinois, usa, in a study, have identified a molecular cause of the problem. The researchers said that within the cochlea of the inner ear, sound …
Muk Badhir Vidyalaya in Jawhar taluka, Thane district, Maharashtra is quite an unconventional school: the 55 tribal students on its rolls are all hearing-impaired. But ingenious use of alternate energy is what really sets this institution apart from other such schools; biogas plants, that run on seeds of locally available …
In view of the increasing noise pollution in the name of religion, the Supreme Court (SC) has passed an order against the use of loudspeakers and drums for religious purposes. "Activities which disturb elderly persons, students or children cannot be permitted' and a pollution free environment is a natural right …
it has been immortalised in public memory by the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Vertigo . Yet only those who suffer from it know the feeling. Anything from the sound of the buzz on the telephone to music or cheering at a sporting event can give vertigo to some people. Vertigo is …
Kids who thrive on bubble guru may well be keeping the doctor away. Research just published by Matti Uhari and his team from the University of Oulu in Finland shows that a sweetener commonly used in bubble gum, chewing gwn and some foods may prevent ear infections. The plant sugar …
every year, loss of hearing affects a significant number of people worldwide. The causes are varied, ageing and accidents being the most common. However, in some instances, hereditary factors also play a crucial role. In fact, these are responsible for as much as 60 per cent of the 28 million …
A gene related to deafness has been discovered in a Costa Rican family that may help understand why people become hard of hearing. E Lynch and his colleagues of the Department of Medicine and Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle, USA, say that low-frequency deafness in the family starts at nearly …
a deafness gene has been discovered by British scientists investigating skin disease. The faulty gene is thought to be behind the only inherited form of deafness that is not also linked to other genetic problems. Researchers from St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, …
THE only system available to let hearing-impaired people know of an incoming call is the flash call system. Unfortunately, the system only works in one room and it only takes into account one alarm source, the phone. A new alarm system devised during a recent study conducted by the Centre …
Chewing gum contains the natural sweetener xylitol, which can help reduce chronic ear infections, say researchers from the University of Oulu, Finland. About 300 pre-school children were given chewing gum, half containing xylitol and the rest plain gum. The incidence of ear infections fell by 50 per cent in those …
Live rock concerts are the hardest on ears, reports Christian Meyer- Bisch, an ear specialist in the city of Nancy in France. Investigating hazards to hearing, from exposure to high noise at a live concert, Mayer- Bisch reports that people can develop symptoms of temporary hearing loss. These include ringing …
LOSS of hearing can now be completely overcome with the aid of a new implant developed at the Kasturba Hospital in Manipal, Karnataka. Unlike the bearing aids, the implant converts the codes received as electric signals, which are then sent to the electrodes to stimulate the hearing nerve fibres. The …
