Education:

The Dangerous Decibels project is a public health campaign designed to reduce the incidence and prevalence of Noise Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL) and tinnitus (ringing in the ear) by changing knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of school-aged children
http://www.dangerousdecibels.org/

Leading prescription drugs that have ototoxic profiles
http://www.lhh.org/about_hearing_loss/understanding/OtotoxicBrochure.pdf

Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling the world—a report by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
http://www.hhmi.org/senses/

Hearing Education and Awareness for Rockers (HEAR)
http://www.hearnet.com/index.shtml

The Hearing Loss Web
http://www.hearinglossweb.com/

Government Institutions:

CDC Noise and Hearing Loss Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/noise/noisepg.html


CDC evaluation of Personal Hearing Protection Devices
Be sure to check the figures on "lab fit" vs "real world" levels of attenuation achieved
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/96-110l.html

National Institute for Deafness and Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/

NIDCD Director commends our novel efforts in sensorineural regeneration
to the US Congress
http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/about/plans/congressional/openstate00.asp

US Department of Labor—Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
Noise and Hearing Conservation
http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/noisehearingconservation/index.html



Professional Organizations:

Acoustical Society of America
http://asa.aip.org/

American Academy of Audiology
www.audiology.org

American Speech Language and Hearing Association
http://www.asha.org/public/hearing/

The Association for Research in Otolaryngology
http://www.aro.org/

The Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
http://www.agbell.org/

The Deafness Research Foundation
http://www.drf.org

The House Ear Institute
http://www.hei.org

Listen for Life Center at The Virginia Mason Medical Center
https://www.virginiamason.org/home/dept.cfm?id=406

The Military Audiology Association
http://www.militaryaudiology.org/

National Hearing Conservation Association
http://www.hearingconservation.org

Neurotechnology Industry Organization
http://www.neurotechindustry.org/home.html

The Oregon Hearing Research Center
http://www.ohsu.edu/ohrc/index.html

Sight and Hearing Association
http://www.sightandhearing.org/

The Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center
http://depts.washington.edu/hearing/



Hearing Geek Web sites:

The Hereditary Hearing Loss Homepage
http://www.uia.ac.be/dnalab/hhh/


The Dancing Hair Cell brought to us by Jonathan Ashmore
http://www.physiol.ucl.ac.uk/ashmore/


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