Your upstairs neighbors’ sounds may be really annoying to you — especially if you've been working from home either full time or part time since the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet there's a larger issue to ...

Permanent hearing loss may occur as a result of aging, disease, injury, or exposure to loud noises over an extended period. Due to the nature of farm work, loud, continuous noise has permanently ...

Lung sounds are the noises a person makes as they breathe in and out, including sounds of regular breathing. However, wheezing, crackling, stridor, and other sounds can also occur, indicating an ...

The use of sound in medicine started since long time ago. Doctors have used stethoscopes to listen to human body’s internal sounds since the early 19th century and the ultrasound imaging has develop ...

Many people depend upon soothing meditative sounds to doze off into a uninterrupted deep sleep. Experts from the Sleep Foundation say that many people like to have background noise before they go to ...

Every beep, tone and new sound you hear travels from the ear to registering in your brain. But what actually happens in your brain when you listen to a continuous stream of sounds? A new study from ...

When a doctor listens to the heart of a person with a heart murmur, they may hear a whooshing, swishing, humming, or rasping sound. This is due to rapid, turbulent blood flow through the heart.