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Meredith Levine

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Meredith Levine is an award-winning, multimedia journalist and full-time faculty member with the graduate journalism program at Western University. She became interested in reporting on chronic vertigo after living with it for a year and a half and then, luckily, recovering. This project is supported, in part, by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Tier 1 Journalism Award and by the faculty of information and media studies at Western University.

    Latest from Meredith Levine

    Misunderstood and often misdiagnosed, the mystery of vertigo

    A growing number of Canadians, especially older ones, are suffering from vertigo, a sometimes debilitating chronic dizziness that can result from viruses, sports injuries and certain medications, and is almost impossible to cure.
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    How gentamicin destroys the inner ear

    A popular, low-cost antibiotic developed in the 1960s, gentamicin has proved remarkably effective against a particular group of bacteria. But if not administered with caution it can also destroy the inner ear, the body's balance mechanism.
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    Perpetual motion: how to deal with chronic vertigo

    For those with chronic vertigo, there is hope. Studies show that rehabilitation exercises can often help the brain develop alternative pathways for motion sensing. But it's hard work, and the gains may not last with aging.
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