[SilentWalker]

Not as interesting as the blood conversion research, but I still thought this was worth a mention.

HAMILTON - Attention tinnitus sufferers — that annoying ringing in your ears is actually all in your head.

A research team from McMaster University, the University of Calgary and four U.S. universities says it has pinpointed the source of tinnitus.

Surprisingly, it's not the ear.

McMaster professor Larry Roberts and his co-authors report there's evidence the high-pitched ringing or hissing noise tinnitus sufferers hear is generated by neurons firing in the brain, not the ear.

"Tinnitus itself is not actually generated by irritative processes in the ear but it's generated by changes that take place in the brain when neurons in the brain lose some of their input from the ear," Roberts said Thursday in an interview from Ottawa.

[Read more] via Yahoo! Canada via The Canadian Press

Not exactly new, but good to see they finally got the article out, gosh darn.

I just saw it on Yahoo today, and usually Yahoo's over 4 days late with any new news. They're not exactly...good.

Originally Posted by SilentWalker

I just saw it on Yahoo today, and usually Yahoo's over 4 days late with any new news. They're not exactly...good.

Nah, its pretty recent, I was talking about the science.

I see how they're going to protect people.. damage is largely due to behaviors at people's own discretion, and theres no real incentive for people to change their ways.. you're never aware that you're causing this damage until you're basically older, and can't do anything anyways.