Portable devices create hearing risks</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Portable devices create hearing risks"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Portable,devices,create,hearing,risks"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">05-04-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Portable devices create hearing risks</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Florida, USA (Naples Daily News): Millions of people who listen to music on portable audio devices like iPods, MP3 players and Walkmans. The surging popularity of such players, with their earphones close to the eardrum, is putting more people at risk of hearing damage, audiologists said. <br>Nearly 28 million people in the United States suffer from some degree of reduced hearing and about 80 percent of those have irreversible hearing loss, according to the American Speech-Language Hearing Association's Web site. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/ne_health/article/0,2071,NPDN_14932_3674448,00.html " target="blank">www.naplesnews.com/npdn/ne_health/article/0,2071,NPDN_14932_3674448,00.html </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show