Diwali is not just a festival of lights. It is also the festival of sound. This is when crackers assault the eardrums the ...

Otosclerosis occurs when there is an overgrowth of bone around the foot plate of the stapes bone in the middle ear, causing hearing loss in the lower frequencies. This condition is more common in ...

In fact, conditions of the incus are rarely isolated and most often involve all three bones. Otosclerosis is a condition that results in hearing loss from abnormal bone growth in one or more of the ...

The latest figures from the Scottish Government indicate there are around 850,000 people living in Scotland with some form of hearing loss and of those, 70 per cent are over 70 - some 595,000.