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Improving Sound Quality In Hearing Aids
March 27, 2007 — Modern hearing aids, though quite sophisticated, still do not faithfully reproduce sound as it is perceived by hearing people. New findings at the Weizmann Institute of Science shed light on a ... > full story -
Viral Enzyme Recruited In Fight Against Ear Infection
March 23, 2007 — Parents might one day give their children a weekly treatment with a nasal spray of virus enzymes to prevent them from getting a severe middle ear infection, based on results of a study done in mice ... > full story -
Hearing Loss In Children Leads To Substantial Meningitis Risk
March 20, 2007 — Children who are stricken with severe hearing loss are five times more likely to contract meningitis, according to a new study. The study, conducted over a nine year period, monitored 663,963 ... > full story -
Why Computers Frustrate Older Adults
March 16, 2007 — A number of evolving social changes highlight the importance of making computer technology accessible and usable for older adults. For instance, older adults are using email increasingly to keep up ... > full story -
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Anti-Epileptic Drugs May Help Prevent And Treat Noise-Induced Hearing Loss
March 14, 2007 — On the battlefield, a soldier's hearing can be permanently damaged in an instant by the boom of an explosion, and thousands of soldiers returning from Iraq have some permanent hearing loss. But what ... > full story -
Making Sense Of The World Through A Cochlear Implant
March 13, 2007 — Scientists can now explain how the brain makes sense of speech in a noisy environment, such as a pub or in a crowd. Recent research suggests that various regions of the brain work together to make ... > full story -
Sign Language At Your Fingertips, Anytime, Anywhere
March 7, 2007 — The world's first sign language dictionary available from a mobile phone is launched today by the University of Bristol's Centre for Deaf Studies. Mobilesign.org is a video dictionary with over 5,000 ... > full story -
Genetic Hearing Loss May Be Reversible Without Gene Therapy
February 22, 2007 — A large proportion of genetically caused deafness in humans may be reversible by compensating for a missing protein. Researchers have found that in mice, increasing the amount of the protein ... > full story -
Doctors Uncover Treatment For Advanced ALD Patients
February 20, 2007 — Continuing with more than a decade of research, doctors at the University of Minnesota have discovered a treatment to help patients with advanced cases of adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD), a rare disorder ... > full story -
Sense And Sensibility In Short-Term Memory: Auditory And Visual Memory Use Similar Neural Mechanisms
February 20, 2007 — More than three centuries ago, Sir Isaac Newton reflected on the similarities between the sense of hearing and the sense of sight. Newton's speculations were impossible to test scientifically, until ... > full story
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