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Your hearing is essential for day to day communication and in your professional life. The Indpendent experts cover a range of topics around hearing health, including hearing tests, types of hearing aids and how to prevent hearing loss.

<p>Erik Menendez, left, and Lyle Menendez</p>

Will the Menendez brothers be released from prison?

<p>Erik Menendez (left) and his brother Lyle (right)</p>

Date set for Menendez brothers to learn fate at resentencing hearing

<p>Diane Abbott has said that ‘as a Black woman’ she ‘will not get a fair hearing’ from this Labour leadership </p>

Diane Abbott says she won’t get fair hearing over ‘antisemitic’ letter

<p>OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman was candid on Capitol Hill</p>

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI can go ‘quite wrong’

Men choose not to hear their partners seven times a week on average, participants say

Seven in 10 adults think partner pretends not to hear them, poll claim

Implant consists of external microphone which transmits to receiver and electrodes under the skin

NHS to offer hundreds more deaf people life-changing implant

Wear earplugs to Christmas parties, urges hearing loss charity

Exposure to traffic noise is linked with an increased risk of obesity and diabetes

How noise pollution could be giving people diabetes

As well as annual health checks, some japanese firms compensate staff who don't take smoke breaks

Smokers at higher risk of losing their hearing, suggests study

The scary truth about earbuds and hearing loss

Health & Families

Stop sleeping on planes immediately

Scientists hope the results of their test will one day be used to treat mental health problems

Good hearing could mean you suffer from schizophrenia

The charity said people retained an “emotional memory” despite the disease and

Third of dementia cases are preventable, say researchers

The noise that shows if someone is above 25

See if you can get your head around some of these audio illusions

Can you trust your ears? Take these tests