Popping balloons can lead to permanent hearing loss. (Reprentational Image) Toronto: If you thought bursting balloons at a birthday party is plain fun, think again! Researchers have found that popping ...

Bill Hodgetts doesn't want to be a party-pooper. The Edmonton audiologist and father of two young girls says he often wondered if there was something more dangerous than disdainful about noisy ...

Children's birthday parties are often decorated with bright, colorful balloons. Balloons are part of all the fun and games but the loud sound of a popping balloon may cause hearing damage to children, ...

FRIDAY, Feb. 10, 2017 -- Blowing up your kid's birthday balloons could end in a bang -- and hearing loss, new research suggests. The Canadian study found that a bursting balloon can create sound ...

Go pop a balloon. Then, come back. How did you do it? Did you poke it with a pin? Or did you overinflate it until it popped? Well, you probably did neither, because you don't have any balloons (good ...

What happens in the fraction of a second when a balloon goes POP!? It may seem like a trivial question, but the answer could provide a better understanding of how aneurysms burst and why airplanes ...

Children's birthday parties are often decorated with bright, colorful balloons. Balloons are part of all the fun and games but the loud sound of a popping balloon may cause hearing damage to children, ...