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Wherever we nowadays, we see people headphones or earbuds. They are increasingly popular with the younger generation, for work and for leisure. However, a new report from the BBC suggests noise-cancelling earphones could to hearing loss. The BBC doctors and audiologists (hearing specialists) at audiology departments in five UK hospitals. The doctors reporters they are seeing many young people who are it more and more difficult to sounds. The young patients say they can sounds, but they're often not sure where the sounds are coming from. The doctors say noise-cancelling earphones could the problem.

The BBC to Dr Renee Almeida, an audiologist at London's Imperial College. She said there an increase in the number of young people complaining about poor hearing. She said people need to hear many kinds of sounds. One important listening skill to on and which sounds are helpful. Our ears must out sounds we don't think are important. Dr Almeida said: "There is a difference between hearing and listening. We can that listening skills are suffering." Another audiologist suggested that headphones can to bad listening habits. She said we can "" to hear important sounds, like cars beeping. Headphones may even problems in hearing spoken words.