Sharon G. Curhan, MD, is an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School and a physician and clinical researcher at the Channing Division of Network Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, both in Boston. She is the lead author of a study on analgesic use and hearing loss in women published in American Journal of Epidemiology.
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