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Article: Pill may reduce hearing loss from noise.
- Article from:
- Drug Week
- Article date:
- November 7, 2003
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2003 NOV 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists have been accumulating evidence in lab animals for years that a pill might be able to reduce the damage loud noise does to your hearing. Now they're sending in the Marines.
Starting in a few months, a group of 600 Marines at Camp Pendleton in California will face rifle training with not only foam plugs in their ears, but also a drink that tastes very much like Wild Berry Zinger herbal tea.
They'll take it with every meal during their 2 weeks of the noisy training, an experience that normally erodes a bit of hearing ability from about 10% of trainees. And if all goes as hoped, hearing tests will show ...