Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jonel Dershem, left, with her son Bryce at their home in Voorhees, N.J., recently. (Rachel Wisniewski for The Washington Post) ...

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What if hearing loss and the risk of dementia were more closely linked than you thought? A new study in the Journal of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery found that certain middle-ear ...

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Jonel Dershem first noticed problems with her memory in 2016 after her breast cancer surgery. She was only 50 and at first blamed the lapses on chemotherapy, and then on her busy, stressful life. So ...

What if hearing loss and the risk of dementia were more closely linked than you thought? A new study in the Journal of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery found that certain middle-ear ...