The Week of Science and Technology is the most extensive science festival in the Czech Republic and its next edition will be held on November 6 -12, 2017.

[hear-it.org] Study finds high prevalence of hearing problems among Korean middle and high school students.

The European Researchers’ Night takes place every year all over Europe and in neighbouring countries the last Friday of September. This year, the events will take place on Friday 29 September in over 300 cities.

The newsletter of the Spanish Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SEBBM) presents the latest news published on the SEBBM´s website “Science for society”.

[hear-it.org] There is a relationship between hearing loss and iron deficiency anemia, according to an American study.

Z. Luo, Q. Meng, D. M. Grossnickle, D. Liu, A. I. Neander, Y. Zhang, Q. Ji.
Nature 548, 326–329. doi:10.1038/nature23483

[hear-it.org] A study from British Columbia, Canada, finds that young construction workers are less likely to wear hearing protection at work compared to other age groups in the same industry.