Sound Advice program helps fill a void

Sound Advice group facilitators Hugh Hetherington (left) and Flo Spratt (right) flank participant Betty MacMillan outside the West Vancouver Seniors Centre where the group meets once a month to help seniors who have hearing loss issues.

Report: 20% of teens suffer hearing loss

Hearing loss among teenagers is on the upswing, according to research just published in the “Journal of the American Medical Association.”

Study: Hearing loss among U.S. youths has risen

The kids' hearing is not all right, a Journal of the American Medical Association study finds. Most recent data shows a 31 percent increase in hearing loss.

Harry Deitz: I'll be fighting sounds of silence

Several years ago, I noticed that people were starting to talk more softly and mumbling. Especially my wife. Of course she said I needed to get my hearing checked.

Court video failures cause trials, hearings to be lost

Nearly three months after defense attorneys and prosecutors held a suppression hearing in the Cecil New murder case, they had to do the whole thing all over again recently — calling in the same detective, asking her the same questions and spending more than an hour re-creating the record.