A man lying on a gurney stares up at the faces of a team of concerned medical doctors and nurses running down a hospital hallway. The man desperately tries communicating with them, but they seem confused by his hand gestures. The man’s face grows more desperate and terrified as they approach the end of a hallway into an operating room. The emotional video is part of a new public service .
Anyone who is hard of hearing but doesn't wear a hearing aid should think again, as they have been found to help people live longer, according to the University of Southern California (USC). The little over-the-ear wearables do not just offset hearing loss - they are probably life-savers, going by research carried out by the USC's Keck Medicine and published in The Lancet Healthy Longevity, a medical journal. "We found that adults with hearing loss who regularly used hearing aids had a 24% lower