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Read the latest medical research on hearing, hearing loss and related stem cell research. Genetic hearing loss could be reversed by compensating for a missing protein. Full text free. Total news: 43
Last news: August 31, 2007 04:00:00
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| Child Safety Often Depends On Caregivers Ability To Hear
August 31, 2007 07:00:00Parents who ask baby boomers or more elderly grandparents to care for their children for part of the day should be sure that the caregivers can hear well to assure that their children will be safe. "There is a direct correlation between a caregivers ability to hear, and the safety of the baby-sitting environment for the children," says Dr. Sergei Kochkin, Executive Director of the non-profit educational organization, the Better Hearing Institute (BHI). [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| Mild Hearing Loss Leaves Lasting Impact On Neurological Processes
August 31, 2007 04:00:00Mild to moderate forms of hearing loss can have a lasting impact on the auditory cortex, according to new findings. The results showed that the projection to auditory cortex had changed following a brief period of hearing loss. Specifically, the researchers found that the synaptic response of the auditory neurons adapted more rapidly and to a greater extent. They also found that auditory cortex neurons became more sensitive to stimulation. - [Read more] |
| Tone Deafness Explained
August 26, 2007 04:00:00Do people cringe when you sing? Youve got company. But researchers have found that only 1 in 20 people truly has amusia, the technical term for tone deafness. Tests have shown that some people with bad singing voices hear music just fine. Amusics are a smaller group with a perceptual problem: They cant pick out differences in pitch or follow the simplest tunes. - [Read more] |
| Tone Deafness Explained, From The Harvard Health Letter
August 24, 2007 07:00:00Do people cringe when you sing? Youve got company. But researchers have found that only 1 in 20 people truly has amusia, the technical term for tone deafness. Tests have shown that some people with bad singing voices hear music just fine. Amusics are a smaller group with a perceptual problem: They cant pick out differences in pitch or follow the simplest tunes, reports the September 2007 issue of the Harvard Health Letter. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| Quark Pharmaceuticals Extends Research Agreement With State University Of New York For Proprietary S
August 21, 2007 07:00:00Quark Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing novel RNA interference-based therapeutics, announced that it has expanded its relationship with the State University of New York at Buffalo, Center for Hearing & Deafness, which is the Companys primary site for the pre-clinical studies of its product candidate, AHLi-11, for the treatment of acute hearing loss. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| Brain Cells Work Differently Than Previously Thought
August 21, 2007 04:00:00Scientists know that information travels between brain cells along hair-like extensions called axons. For the first time, researchers have found that axons dont just transmit information -- they can turn the signal up or down with the right stimulation. This finding may help scientists develop treatments for psychiatric disorders such as depression and schizophrenia in which it is thought that different parts of the brain do not communicate correctly with each other. - [Read more] |
| Music To Audiologists Ears: Students Play On With Earplugs
August 18, 2007 09:00:00Student musicians who protect their hearing may still hear the beat of the drum after graduation, says a Purdue University audiologist. "A number of famous musicians, old and young, are living with hearing loss," says Lata Krishnan, a clinical associate professor of audiology and a band parent. "One study found that three out of every four rock and jazz musicians have a hearing disorder, and its estimated that 15 percent of American teenagers have permanently lost some hearing. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| Age Related Hearing Loss: A Common Occurrence
August 10, 2007 07:00:00For many people, hearing loss is part of aging. Hearing loss affects approximately one-third of people over age 65. Among people age 75 and older, 40 percent to 50 percent experience hearing loss. The August issue of Mayo Clinic Health Letter covers what changes occur with age-related hearing loss and when its time to visit a doctor to discuss ways to improve communication. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| Electrical Implant Steadies Balance Disorder In Animals
August 8, 2007 04:00:00Hearing and balance experts report successful testing in animals of an electrical device that partly restores a damaged or impaired sense of balance. Though human testing of the so-called multichannel vestibular prosthesis remains a few years away, the scientists say such a device, which is partially implanted in the inner ear, could aid the 30,000 Americans the experts own estimates show are coping with profound loss of inner ear balance. These people often suffer from unsteadiness, disequilibrium or wobbly vision. Problems with vestibular sensation can be inherited at birth or result from use of antibiotics, chemotherapy drugs, Ménières disease, viral infection, stroke or head trauma. - [Read more] |
| Alternative Treatment Brings Hearing To Both Ears
August 2, 2007 09:00:00Thomas Lynch, age 2, is now able to hear on both sides of his head with a device and surgical procedure pioneered by a surgeon-led team at Loyola University Medical Center. Born with no ear canal on his left side, Tom had significant hearing impairment and went to Loyola University Medical Center, where Dr. Sam Marzo surgically implanted a bone-anchored cochlear stimulator that delivers sound to the inner ear by bone conduction. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| Solving The Mystery Of Mammalian Ears
July 31, 2007 22:00:00 A 30-year scientific debate over how specialized cells in the inner ear amplify sound in mammals appears to have been settled more in favor of bouncing cell bodies rather than vibrating, hair-like cilia, according to investigators at St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital.The finding could explain why dogs, cats, humans and other mammals have such sensitive hearing and the ability to discriminate among frequencies. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| Mystery Of Mammalian Ears Solved
July 30, 2007 04:00:00A 30-year scientific debate over how specialized cells in the inner ear amplify sound in mammals appears to have been settled more in favor of bouncing cell bodies rather than vibrating, hair-like cilia, according to the latest research. The finding could explain why dogs, cats, humans and other mammals have such sensitive hearing and the ability to discriminate among frequencies. - [Read more] |
| New School Year, Routine Hearing Test
July 27, 2007 08:00:00As the new school year approaches, many parents are preparing their children by buying school supplies, new clothes, and organizing fall sporting events. But in order to help kids get a healthy head start to the school year, the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) also recommends that school-age children have a complete medical exam, including a routine hearing test. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
| Implant Of Cochlear Device May Cause Brains Hearing Center To Reorganize
July 25, 2007 19:00:00Cochlear implants -- electronic devices inserted surgically in the ear to allow deaf people to hear -- may restore normal auditory pathways in the brain even after many years of deafness.The results imply that the brain can reorganize sound processing centers or press into service latent ones based on sound stimulation. [click link for full article] - [Read more] |
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