21.  At first, loud noise causes temporary hearing loss, but repeated exposure causes the loss to become permanent.

22.  Audiologists blamed his hearing loss on his enthusiasm for the saxophone and a fondness for loud rock music.

23.  Beethoven concealed his progressive hearing loss until he could no longer do so.

24.  Because the hearing loss is possibly related to exposure to loud noises from aircraft, doctors have advised Gore to wear ear plugs at airports and helipads.

25.  Besides killing six people, Harris left the survivor of the carwash massacre with paralysis on the left side of his face and hearing loss in his left ear.

26.  A hearing loss or deficiency is only one of a multitude of causes for speech and language problems.

27.  A natural response to a loss of any kind is sadness and this certainly holds true for hearing loss.

28.  A new National Institute on Aging study suggests that men experience age-related hearing loss at a younger age and at twice the rate women do.

29.  A new team of researchers has weighed into the debate over whether infants should be routinely screened for hearing loss at birth.

30.  About one-third of them developed hearing loss problems in part because of noise.