Photo credit: cottonbro studio by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition WISH-TV in Indianapolis, Indiana recently ran a story about hearing loss in children. As audiologist Brian Fligor notes, noise exposure from activities children and teens often engage in,...
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