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  Allergy Drugs More Harmful Than Helpful For Chronic Ear Inflammation

  October 18, 2006 — Children who have persistent fluid in the middle ear, a condition called otitis media with effusion, are more likely to be harmed than helped by antihistamines and decongestants, a new review of ... > full story
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  Vision And Hearing Loss Often Occur Together In Older Age

  October 10, 2006 — Older adults with vision loss may be more likely to also have hearing loss, and the opposite appears true as well, according to a report in the October issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, one of the ... > full story
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  St. Jude Finds Clues To Hearing Loss From Chemotherapy

  September 23, 2006 — Children with cancer who suffer hearing loss due to the toxic effects of chemotherapy might one day be able to get their hearing back through pharmacological and gene therapy, thanks to work done ... > full story
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  Risk Factors Identified For Hearing Loss In Children With Bacterial Meningitis

  September 18, 2006 — Researchers have identified several risk factors that are associated with the development of hearing loss in children with bacterial meningitis, according to a study in the September issue of ... > full story
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  Early Hearing Tests Improve Children's Recovery From Meningitis

  September 18, 2006 — Hearing loss and its impact in social interactions can be potentially minimized in children with bacterial meningitis through early ... > full story
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  Hormone-Replacement Therapy Hurts Hearing, Study Finds

  September 5, 2006 — The largest study ever to analyze the hearing of women on hormone-replacement therapy has found that women who take the most common form of HRT have a hearing loss of 10 to 30 percent more compared ... > full story
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  Hearing Loss And High-Speed Dental Tools

  August 16, 2006 — Whether high-speed dental tools contribute to hearing loss is the subject of a study currently underway in the OHSU Tinnitus Clinic and the School of Dentistry. According to Robert Folmer, Ph.D., one ... > full story
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  Nicotine Exposure During Development Leads To Hearing Problems

  July 18, 2006 — Scientists know that children of women who smoke during pregnancy can develop hearing-related cognitive deficits. For the first time, researchers believe they have evidence that not only implicates ... > full story
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  Chronic Middle Ear Infections Linked To Resistant Biofilm Bacteria

  July 12, 2006 — Direct evidence of bacterial biofilms has been found on the middle ear tissue of children who suffer from chronic ear infections, according to a study published today in the Journal of the American ... > full story
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  With Cochlear Implants, Earlier Use Leads To Better Speech

  June 29, 2006 — "Bye-bye, bye-bye," said one 3 and a half-year old child, born deaf but with a cochlear implant that partially restored hearing nine months earlier. That's the most complex speech the child uttered ... > full story

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