This "Ask the Doc" entry focuses on hearing and vision issues, such as tinnitus or eye floaters.

While balance disorders can affect almost anyone, service members are at greater risk for certain types of inner ear damage that can affect balance.

Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory Regional Hearing Conservation Program was selected as a 2024 Dr. Delores M. Etter Top Scientists and Engineers Team awardee on May 6, 2024.

Vision and hearing heath are crucial to mission readiness and success, both on and off duty.

What you need to hear about the expanded hearing protection fit testing requirement.

For U.S. Air Force Capt. Emily Lee and U.S. Air Force Capt. Jacqueline Anderson, life experiences highlighting the significance of being able to hear—one of the five senses many people may take for granted—led them to their current roles as audiologists at Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas.

Hearing problems—such as hearing loss and tinnitus, a ringing or buzzing in the ears—are the leading conditions for service-connected disability compensation. To prevent these conditions, the military requires routine hearing readiness testing which has been limited by the use of specialized booths. To increase testing ability, military audiology ...

Vision and hearing injuries can both be sustained due to traumatic brain injury, even mild TBI.

A group of clinicians and researchers from across the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs have come together to share their knowledge on auditory processing disorders and raise awareness.

Hearing conservation programs combat noise-induced hearing loss by stopping it from happening, said U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Robert Summers, audiologist and specialty leader. “It’s a proactive approach versus a reactive approach.”

Two experts from the Defense Health Agency’s Hearing Center of Excellence recently updated military health providers on these developments during a briefing during the September 2023 Clinical Community Speaker Series, provided by the DHA Continuing Education Program Office. The series offers continuing education credits and helps ensure health care ...

Your fit-tested hearing protection device is the last line of defense from noise-induced hearing loss.

DOD/VA hearing and vision injury databases help researchers advance health for service members and vets.

Whether on the sport field or the battlefield, the Defense Health Agency is the global leader in research on the effects of concussion—known as mild traumatic brain injury—in the military. Its research has fueled the development of protocols to help providers assess and treat concussion from initial injury to acute and post-acute medical settings, ...

Mobile audiometry equipment can be used from the point of injury to advanced traumas.