From dentures to contact lenses and mouthguards, there are many accessories we put in our ears, eyes, nose or mouth to aid wellbeing. Yet could they cause problems, too? ANGELA EPSTEIN asked the ...

Eight months after the 3M company agreed to pay the U.S. government $9.1 million to resolve allegations it knowingly sold the U.S. military defective earplugs, the first Connecticut lawsuit alleging ...

Rikki Drury, from Redcar, regularly wore the ear defenders while serving in the Royal Logistics Corp on tour in Iraq, Afghanistan and Northern Ireland. The 40-year-old now has partial hearing in his ...

Dear Amy: I work in a small manufacturing company with 20 employees. After several years of listening to workers bickering over personal radios with varying types of music, volume, as well as disputes ...

ONE of the biggest barriers to effective use of hearing protection devices (HPDs) as the last line of defense against noise in the workplace is that there has never been a good way to test performance ...

A former bomb disposal expert says he is partially deaf after setting off explosives while wearing ear plugs which "did not do the job". Rikki Drury, from Redcar, regularly wore the ear defenders ...