Monday 2 June 2008

Feel the noise? So do something about it

Dr Thomas Stuttaford writes about the Hear the World's mission to persuade people to regard a hearing aid as being no more unusual than a pair of spectacles.

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Work call over young volunteers

A cross-party report has said ministers should recognise voluntary work as a proper job-seeking activity.

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Lorenzo Odone

Lorenzo Odone, who died on Friday, the day after his 30th birthday, became famous throughout the world with the release, in 1992, of the film Lorenzo's Oil, starring Susan Sarandon and Nick Nolte. Lorenzo suffered from adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) a genetic disease, affecting mainly boys, which left him bedridden, blind, deaf and almost completely disabled physically

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Sunday 1 June 2008

The bands played on ... and slowly I went deaf

Years of playing and listening to loud music left Denis Campbell in need of a hearing aid and he says his generation must face up to the damage caused by noise. The feature mentions that when RNID monitored a Justin Timberlake show in London's Docklands in 2007, a high of 121 decibels was recorded.

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'I thought my career was over. Now I wear earplugs at work'

Niki Potterton, known as DJ Miss Behavin', an ambassador for RNID's Don't Lose the Music campaign, talks about damaging her hearing whilst DJing. The Don't Lose the Music website was mentioned.

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