Check out this medical blog, created by Dr. Joey (A. Joseph) Garcia, a staff physician in Henry Ford Hospital’s Emergency Department. The blog shares the experiences of physicians and nurses who traveled to assist the people of Haiti after the devastating earthquake. Dr. Garcia was on the relief team from Michigan who helped wounded Haitians in early February.
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Almost 620,000 military veterans share a disabling health problem with rockers Eric Clapton, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards, Mick Fleetwood, and others. It’s an occupational hazard.
They’re going deaf, and it’s long been thought there isn’t much we can do about it but fit them with hearing aids. Rock musicians can take preventive measures by turning the music down, if they would.
Men and women in our armed forces – the focus of some promising new research that Henry Ford Hospital is working on with the military – don’t have such an option. When explosives, in particular the improvised explosive devices or IEDs that are so much a part of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, aren’t killing our troops, they’re deafening them.
But we have reason to believe that a special “dietary supplement,” a simple pill, not only could reduce this hearing loss but also prevent it.
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