After news reports showed the local community reaching out to help, a conscience-riddled burglar who stole two hearing aids belonging to 11-year-old Haley Osmond of Edmonton, Canada, anonymously returned one of them Monday. ''Shows that this guy at least has some conscience to him,'' Const. Jeff Benedict from Edmonton police said in an article in ...

This week, I finally got a chance to see my new site and meet my new preceptor. I'm very excited, because I have the opportunity to be working under an audiologist that works in an ENT practice. I know I will be getting my share of just what I've been longing for--weird stuff! And the weirder, the better. As a student, I've been tapping into the ...

It's down to the last free week before the fall quarter begins, and to be honest, I'm kind of ready for school to start. Does that make me weird? I know I'd better enjoy what break I have left now, because by the middle of November, I'm going to be on my knees begging for another break. As the beginning of my third year is drawing ever so close, ...

The countdown to my 4th year externship has officially started, and I am so excited because we have the chance to choose where we want to begin our careers! Of course, I want to go back to the southeast where I belong. I am so homesick, it's ridiculous. It's sad to say it, but I even miss the sticky humidity, because that brought the ...

At 23 years old, I'm a relatively young guy. Yet even though I'm far closer to diapers than I am to Social Security checks, today's popular technology is really making me feel like an old fogey. It's not that I'm a technology hater. I've had a cell phone for nearly a decade and, yes, I got on the Facebook bandwagon during college, but that still ...

When it comes to pets, people are commonly thrown into two categories: dog person or cat person. I don't really think it's that cut and dry (based on my mom's relationship with her Congo Grey, Molly, I think I could make a strong case for bird people), but the simplicity of dog versus cat has always made a great deal of sense to me. My reason ...

Deaf dogs are making headlines in the news. Peter Scheifele, PhD, director of the University of Cincinnati's Bioacoustics and Canine Audiology Clinic, says the canine hearing aid he is developing for dogs with acquired hearing loss will be ready for the market by the end of the year. Dr. Sheifele began working on the technology when his ...