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Does Using Earphones Damage Hearing?

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Sadly, constant use can do – and when you experience volume-related hearing loss in your teens, twenties and thirties, you're stuck with it, says Robert Sataloff, chair of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at Drexel University College of Medicine.

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