A lawsuit involving more than 229,000 veterans with hearing problems that they claim are linked to faulty earplugs issued by the military begins its first trial Monday in a Florida federal courtroom.
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One of the evolutionary disadvantages for mammals, relative to other vertebrates like fish and chickens, is the inability to regenerate sensory hair cells. The inner hair cells in our ears are responsible for transforming sound vibrations and gravitational forces into electrical signals, which we need to detect sound and maintain balance and spatial orientation. Certain insults, such as exposure to noise, antibiotics, or age, cause inner ear hair cells to die off, which leads to hearing loss and vestibular defects, a condition reported by 15% of the US adult population. In addition, the ion composition of the fluid surrounding the hair cells needs to be tightly controlled, otherwise hair cell function is compromised as observed in Ménière s disease.
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KANSAS CITY, MO One of the evolutionary disadvantages for mammals, relative to other vertebrates like fish and chickens, is the inability to regenerate sensory hair cells. The inner hair cells in our ears are responsible for transforming sound vibrations and gravitational forces into electrical signals, which we need to detect sound and maintain balance and spatial orientation. Certain insults, such as exposure to noise, antibiotics, or age, cause inner ear hair cells to die off, which leads to hearing loss and vestibular defects, a condition reported by 15% of the US adult population. In addition, the ion composition of the fluid surrounding the hair cells needs to be tightly controlled, otherwise hair cell function is compromised as observed in Ménière s disease.
Sounding off: Veterans say their standard-issue earplugs caused hearing loss
One of the largest mass tort cases in the U.S. is heading to trial this month
Sounding Off By Jackson Hicks and Sandra Jones | March 16, 2021 at 7:50 AM HST - Updated March 23 at 8:42 AM
(InvestigateTV) - Hundreds of thousands of veterans across the country say they’ve suffered hearing loss and permanent ringing in their ears after their government-issued ear plugs failed to protect them.
“I had the hearing of like a 60-year-old man when I was 30,” said Brett James Bailey, an Army veteran. “I’ve come to terms with the fact that at some point I’m probably going to have to have a hearing aid.”
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