Warning: Loud music's bad for your lungs
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New research in the medical journal Thorax reveals that, apart from the risk to your ears, blasting music could also lead to a collapsed lung.
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Adam Zaretsky once spent 48 hours playing Engelbert Humperdincks's "Greatest Hits" to a dish of E.coli bacteria to determine whether vibrations or sounds influenced bacterial growth. Watching the bacteria's antibiotic production increase, Zaretsky decided that perhaps even cells were annoyed by constant subjection to "loud, really awful lounge music."
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Breathing in secondhand smoke massively increases the risk of lung cancer and heart disease, an official report shows.
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Ever want to growl "shhhhhh!" to someone who's talking way too loudly on a cell phone? Rather than cause a scene, why not express your sentiments in a card? [Missing Links]
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Sometimes the songs are all wrong. Like, you're shopping for genitalia in Second Life when your earbuds remind you that it's just "Too Little Too Late." The solution: Pack your iPod with tunes that complement the things you do all day long.
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Women using some hormone replacement therapies may be putting their hearing at risk, a US study says.
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NEW YORK  - Noise-filled occupations can lead to hearing loss, but even one hour of training could encourage more workers to take the risk seriously, new research suggests.
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Churchgoers and priests risk lung disease from air pollution caused by candles and incense, Dutch scientists say.
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Decibel levels at Nascar races are dangerously high, according to recent studies by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
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Our brains can turn down our ability to see to help them listen even harder to music and complex sounds, say experts.
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A grass-roots movement is gaining momentum to turn down the decibel level on all things annoying.
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NEW YORK  - Even for healthy people,  swimming can lead to an accumulation of fluid in the lungs,  called pulmonary edema.
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[Health India]: London, Nov 21 : A new study, conducted by researchers at the Maastricht University in Holland, suggests that people who go to the church every day are at a high risk of getting lung cancer due to the unhealthy air caused by candles and
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Teenagers who smoke, or whose pregnant mother smoked, are at risk of hearing problems, a study claims.
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Shhhh! Mute the brass, and please &#151; go easy on the cymbals!
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White noise is intended to help you fall asleep. "White Noise" would never let you do that, though. It's far too interested in a cacophony of cheap scares: otherworldly screeches, deafening bursts from the radio and a nearly nonstop, buzzing din of television snow.
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MP3 players should carry warnings users risk damaging hearing by having the volume too high, experts say.