by Dr. Evonne Serpa | Oct 4, 2022 | Blog, Education, Hearing Tips
On August 16, 2022,The Food and Drug Administration released its long-awaited regulations for over-the-counter hearing aids. The regulations were written to create a category for non-prescription devices (that was proposed in 2017), as well as to clean up and amend... 
by Dr. Evonne Serpa | Aug 29, 2022 | Blog, Education, Hearing Tips
On August 16, 2022 The Food and Drug Administration released its long-awaited regulations for over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids. The regulations were written to create a category for non-prescription devices (that was proposed in 2017), as well as to clean up and... 
by Dr. Evonne Serpa | Jun 3, 2022 | Blog, Education, Hearing Tips, Uncategorized
In a recent poll conducted by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Millennials to Baby Boomers agree that society is too noisy.1 Employees in noisy workplaces are twice as likely to suffer hearing loss but according to the CDC’s February 2017 Morbidity... 
by Dr. Evonne Serpa | May 9, 2022 | Blog, Education, Hearing Tips
Lately I’ve found myself talking to patients about how EXHAUSTING living with hearing loss can be. Patients don’t often realize how much they compensate with various strategies to ‘get by’ and make it through a day… As an audiologist, I see firsthand the ways in which... 
by Dr. Evonne Serpa | Jan 31, 2022 | Blog, Education, Hearing Tips
February is American Heart Month This month, we are taking time to focus on the connection between heart trouble and hearing loss! I’m going to start off this blog with a story! One of my patient’s recently told me that when his heart beats quickly during stressful...
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