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Scientists Prevent Development of Deafness in Animals Engineered to Have Usher Syndrome
February 8, 2013 — Most cases of congenital deafness are due to a mutation in a gene that is required for normal development of the sensory hair cells in the inner ear that are responsible for detecting sound. To cure ... > full story -
Researchers Develop Rx for Deafness, Impaired Balance in Mouse Model of Usher Syndrome
February 4, 2013 — In a new study, researchers report that hearing and balance can be rescued by a new therapy in a mouse model of Usher syndrome (Usher) that contains the mutation responsible for type 1C Usher. The ... > full story -
Discovering the Missing 'LINC' to Deafness
January 28, 2013 — 50 percent of hearing loss is linked to genetic mutations. Now a researcher has discovered a significant mutation in a family of proteins that could lead to new treatments for hearing ... > full story -
FDA Approves Clinical Trial of Auditory Brainstem Implant Procedure for Children in U.S.
January 22, 2013 — The House Research Institute and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given final approval to begin a clinical trial of an Auditory ... > full story -
Hearing Loss Accelerates Brain Function Decline in Older Adults
January 21, 2013 — Older adults with hearing loss are more likely to develop problems thinking and remembering than older adults whose hearing is normal, according to a new ... > full story -
Hearing-Loss-Prevention Drugs Closer to Reality Thanks to New Test
January 17, 2013 — A new way to test anti-hearing-loss drugs in people could help land those medicines on pharmacy shelves sooner. Researchers have figured out the longstanding problem of how to safely create ... > full story -
Stress Makes Exhausted Women Over-Sensitive to Sounds
January 15, 2013 — Women suffering from stress-related exhaustion exhibit hypersensitivity to sounds when exposed to stress. In some cases, a sound level corresponding to a normal conversation can be perceived as ... > full story -
New Implant Replaces Impaired Middle Ear
January 14, 2013 — Functionally deaf patients can gain normal hearing with a new implant that replaces the middle ear. The unique invention has been approved for a clinical ... > full story -
Music from the Ear: Researchers Show How an Objective Audiometric Test Can Become Even More Reliable
January 10, 2013 — Not only can the human ear detect sounds, it can also generate them. If the ear hears the two upper tones of a major triad, it produces the fundamental of the chord which can then be measured. This ... > full story -
Sensory Hair Cells Regenerated, Hearing Restored in Noise-Damaged Mammal Ear
January 9, 2013 — Researchers have demonstrated for the first time that hair cells can be regenerated in an adult mammalian ear by using a drug to stimulate resident cells to become new hair cells, resulting in ... > full story
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