Video gamers worldwide may be risking irreversible hearing loss and/or tinnitus. Really!

Some alarmism and hysteria never dies! Yawn! Yawn!

Were we not inundated with similar alarms when the disco mania era erupted in the 1970s or when the Sony Walkman became popular in the 1980s

Video gamers worldwide may be risking irreversible hearing loss and/or tinnitus | BMJ Studies suggest game sound levels often near, or exceed, permissible safe limits. Greater public health efforts needed to raise awareness of potential risks, urge researchers

Credits: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: Global Health NOW