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UCSF Audiology Clinic Offers World's First Disposable Hearing Aids
October 5, 2000 The University of California, San Francisco Audiology Clinic will launch new research in October to study the world's first disposable hearing aids, costing about $40 and lasting ... > full story -
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Rare Hallucinations Make Music In The Mind
August 9, 2000 Some hear choruses singing folk songs, others hear Mozart or even the Glenn Miller Orchestra -- but there is no music; they are hallucinating. New research in the August 8 issue of Neurology, the ... > full story -
Helping To Better Understand The Development And Maturation Of The Auditory Pathway
July 3, 2000 Scientists at Johns Hopkins have discovered the function of a group of nerve fibers that originates in the brain stem and fires off signals even before newborn rats can hear. The signals may be a ... > full story -
Northwestern Researchers Clone Gene Responsible For Inner Ear Motor
May 12, 2000 In an unusual collaboration of hearing science and molecular biology experts, researchers have cloned a gene, named after the musical notation presto, that is critical to the functioning of the outer ... > full story -
UCSD Study Of Uncoordinated Fruit Flies Provides Molecular Clues To Hearing Problems In Humans
March 27, 2000 In an ingenious study of severely uncoordinated fruit flies, scientists at the University of California, San Diego have obtained the first molecular hints of how humans and other complex organisms ... > full story -
New Hearing Test Can Improve Diagnosis Of Middle Ear Disorders
November 23, 1999 A new test developed by a Nebraska researcher and studied by scientists at Ohio University could offer doctors a better diagnostic tool for middle ear infections and other hearing disorders than ... > full story -
Despite Effects On Perceived Health, Many Elderly Ignore Hearing Loss
November 4, 1999 Despite mounting evidence that hearing loss affects health, a significant number of elderly people don't seek treatment for the problem, even when their hearing loss is substantial, University of ... > full story -
Gene Mutation Tied To Deafness Found In African-Americans And Caucasians
October 21, 1999 A new study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is the first to establish that a mutation in a gene associated with about 20 percent of all cases of hereditary deafness found in Whites ... > full story -
Aspirin Component Prevents Antibiotic-Induced Deafness
July 14, 1999 University of Michigan scientists have found that salicylate---the active component of ordinary aspirin---can prevent deafness in guinea pigs exposed to a common class of antibiotics that destroy ... > full story -
Gene Triggers Formation Of Sensory Cells In The Ear
June 14, 1999 Using an advanced microscope facility, a researcher at the University of Illinois at Chicago has identified a key step in the development of sensory cells in the inner ear known as hair cells. The ... > full story
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