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Healthy hearing sounds good
Marian Hill has dedicated her career to brightening the futures of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and is up for a Deadly
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Care For Kids Ears
Metro Screen are making a series of short films about ear health helping to inform parents about this critical part of a child’s health.
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Listen Up! (Hearing)
Hearing is one of those things we tend to take for granted. This means a lot of us are not paying any attention to our hearing health. But, once damaged or impaired, hearing cannot be returned to its original state. Hearing loss can be caused in a number of ways, including: blockages of the ear […]
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Hearing loss no barrier for this Elder
A hearing loss can easily stop some people from socialising with friends and family and performing day-to-day activities. For Edmund Thomas, doing something about hearing loss has helped him reconnect with life, family and friends and achieve some awesome things that he had never dreamt possible. Edmund was the Tasmanian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander […]
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Ear Health in Central Australia
How big an issue is hearing health in Central Australia? Rebecca: Well I can probably say that at any given time if you were to walk into a classroom of primary school aged kids you could guarantee about 85% of those children in the classroom have some kind of hearing loss, and also you can […]
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Hear This! (Hearing Loss)
Keep an eye on your kid’s ears to prevent the risk of hearing loss. Hearing loss among Aboriginal children is a serious problem. In some areas, nearly all school-age children have some level of hearing impairment. This is commonly a result of a chronic middle ear infection, also known as otitis media or glue ear. […]
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Ear Health
As the summer months settle in I’m sure most of you will be hitting the beach or the local pool. But beware, the easiest things to infect while you’re in the water are your ears! Ear infections are very common; each year one in 100 people consult a doctor with the problem. They often occur […]
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Tinnitus
Millions of people around the world have some form of tinnitus, ranging from mild to severe. Some of us may have experienced ringing in the ears for a short period after seeing a live band or going to a rock concert. Everybody’s tinnitus noise is individual to them, and it is like hearing a ringing, […]
