What does the impending cicada summer mean for people with tinnitus? Speech and hearing science professor Fatima Husain explains.

Sarah Theodoroff: Almost any way that you can think of to describe sound, somebody has told me their tinnitus sounds like that. Taylor Quimby: So tinnitus can be tonal… [tone] ...

Tinnitus describes internal sounds in your ear rather than sounds with an external source. There are several different types of tinnitus, each with its own causes and treatment options.

After more than 25 years of living with a constant tone or whooshing sound in his ears, Michael McCreary says a new tinnitus device, cleared last year by the FDA, has softened the sounds he hears ...

That frustrating ringing, buzzing, or whooshing sound that no one else can hear affects a staggering 740 million people worldwide. Tinnitus—the perception of noise without an external sound ...

Understand the link between ringing in ears and blood pressure. Discover how hypertension can affect hearing and ways to manage it.

Some tinnitus treatments involve using other sounds to try to mask the ringing noise. This treatment differs by adding a second stimulus that occupies the brain for a longer period of time.