The World Health Organization defines community noise as that which occurs from outside the industrial workplace.

Provides details of staff and projects, and includes the 'Rock Around the Clock Hair Cell Video'.

Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery with research and applied development in the fields of normal and diseased hearing, equilibrium, smelling and taste.

Educational materials from a campaign to prevent noise-induced hearing loss.

Provides research and applied care in the fields of Hearing, Dizziness, and Balance.

This professional association seeks to prevent hearing loss due to noise and other environmental factors in all sectors of society.

Investigates physiological measurement techniques for the identification and assessment of hearing impairment in infants and young children. Includes clinical applications, and a description of auditory evoked potentials.

This site concerns the Hearing Regeneration Initiative, which will share scientific results in molecular research with the goal of achieving haircell (inner ear) regeneration in five to ten years.

Script allows one compute amount of hearing loss due to level of noise and years of exposure.

Document on the relationship between loud noise and ear damage with particular reference to young people and loud music.

Information about this British registered charity. Includes the constitution, applying for and donating funds and contact details.

Features the inventor of the implantable hearing device, with articles, photographs and details of awards. Includes information about cochlear implants and hearing loss.

a non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness of the real dangers of repeated exposure to excessive noise levels which can lead to permanent, and sometimes debilitating, hearing loss and tinnitus.

A consortium between the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, the Research Laboratory of Electronics at M.I.T, Harvard Medical School, and the Massachusetts General Hospital. Its charter is basic research in Auditory Physiology.

Part of Boston University. Offers a web-based resource that combines on-line computational models with a data warehouse.

Interactive site from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. Illustrates the meaning of decibel levels.

Originally produced for broadcast on Nebraska ETV, explores this noisy, sometimes deafening world. The web site contains much of the content from the TV program and helps to educate the public on hazardous noise.

The laboratory carries out research into hearing and deafness in conjunction with the universities Audiology program.