Hearing Impairment News
July 26, 2024
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July 12, 2024 Researchers have used gene editing to restore hearing in adult mice with a type of inherited hearing loss. They showed that shutting down a damaged copy of a gene called a microRNA (miRNA) enabled the animals to regain hearing. The approach may ...
July 11, 2024 The human brain is remarkably adept at adjusting what we hear based on contexts, like our current environment or priorities, but it's still unknown how exactly the brain helps us detect, filter and react to sounds. Now, biologists are a step closer ...
June 28, 2024 A new study tracked a cohort of testicular cancer survivors who received cisplatin-based chemotherapy for an average of 14 years, revealing that 78% experience significant difficulties in everyday listening situations, negatively impacting their ...
June 26, 2024 A new study documents the first case of Down syndrome in Neanderthals and reveals that they were capable of providing altruistic care and support for a vulnerable member of their social ...
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June 11, 2024 Researchers have found that the maturation of the senses for smell and touch is closely linked in mice and that this strong interaction takes place within a narrow developmental time window. These ...
New Gene Therapy Trial Shows Restored Hearing and Speech in Children Born Deaf, Treated in Both Ears
June 5, 2024 A new clinical trial of five children with inherited deafness found administering gene therapy in both ears led to restored hearing and speech, and ...
May 30, 2024 A new study has compared the amount of music and speech that children hear in infancy. Results showed that infants hear more spoken language than music, with the gap widening as the babies get ...
May 16, 2024 Noise-canceling headphones automatically identify background sounds and cancel them out for much-needed peace and quiet. However, typical noise-canceling fails to distinguish between unwanted ...
May 24, 2024 Engineers have developed an artificial intelligence system that lets someone wearing headphones look at a person speaking for three to five seconds ...
May 22, 2024 What factors lead older adults to stop driving? A new study followed older adults who had no memory or thinking problems to examine this ...
May 7, 2024 Researchers have debunked a 75-year-old theory about how humans determine where sounds are coming from, and it could unlock the secret to creating a ...
May 6, 2024 About 79% of clinical trial participants experienced measurable improvement after receiving experimental, CRISPR-based gene editing that is designed to fix a rare form of blindness, according to a ...
Apr. 5, 2024 The sense of smell is highly influenced by the cues from other senses, while the sense of sight and hearing are affected to a much lesser extent, shows a new ...
Mar. 6, 2024 Axons that are regularly stimulated do not pass on increases in performance to their neighbors, study on mice ...
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Mar. 6, 2024 Certain factors associated with developing age-related hearing loss differ by sex, including weight, smoking behavior, and hormone exposure, according to a new ...
Feb. 26, 2024 While it's not surprising to spot teens wearing headphones and earbuds, it's also becoming a widespread trend among younger children, a national poll ...
Feb. 12, 2024 Drugs that trap excess zinc in the inner ear could help restore lost hearing or, if administered before an expected loud sound exposure, can protect from hearing loss, study ...
Feb. 8, 2024 People with aphasia have more trouble coming up with words they want to use when they're prompted by images and words that carry negative emotional meaning, new research ...
Jan. 24, 2024 A novel gene therapy for hearing loss was administered to six children in China in a clinical trial. Each child had an inherited deafness caused by mutations in the OTOF gene, called DFNB9. The ...
Jan. 24, 2024 In a new study, researchers combined OCT retinal imaging, genetics and big data to estimate how likely a person is to develop eye and systemic diseases in the future. They found significant ...
Jan. 19, 2024 One in three children who suffer from bacterial meningitis live with permanent neurological disabilities due to the ...
Jan. 16, 2024 This month, a group of stroke survivors in British Columbia will test a new technology designed to aid their recovery, and ultimately restore use of their limbs and hands. Participants will wear a ...
Jan. 8, 2024 A person's hearing can be damaged by loud noise, aging and even certain medications, with little recourse beyond a hearing aid or cochlear ...
Jan. 5, 2024 In a new study featuring data from 573,088 people, researchers have found a link between hearing loss and the development of dementia. The study is the largest of its kind to ...
Jan. 4, 2024 A new study shows that adults with hearing loss who regularly used hearing aids had a 24% lower risk of mortality than those who never wore ...
Jan. 3, 2024 The temporary, repeated hearing loss caused by chronic ear infections can affect language skills years ...
Dec. 27, 2023 Researchers have identified a wide range of risk factors for young-onset dementia. The findings challenge the notion that genetics are the sole cause of the condition, laying the groundwork for new ...
Dec. 13, 2023 In the largest study yet of deep neural networks trained to perform auditory tasks, researchers found most of these models generate internal representations that share properties of representations ...
Nov. 30, 2023 Researchers have uncovered that tinnitus, an incurable persistent ringing or other sounds in the ears, might result from underlying auditory nerve damage that can't be detected on conventional ...
Nov. 22, 2023 Scientists can now pinpoint where someone is looking just by listening to their ears. Following a discovery that the ears emit subtle sounds when the eyes move, a new report finds that decoding the ...
Nov. 21, 2023 A team of researchers employed hearing tests and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to determine whether hearing impairment is associated with differences in specific brain regions and affects dementia ...
Nov. 9, 2023 Researchers have developed deep-learning algorithms that let users pick which sounds filter through their headphones in real time. Either through voice commands or a smartphone app, headphone wearers ...
Nov. 1, 2023 A new study finds that solitary time does not closely correlate with feelings of loneliness -- unless a person spends 75% of their time ...
Oct. 5, 2023 As we age, many of us will eventually need hearing aids. In some cases, the reason for this may be a signaling pathway that controls auditory sensory cell function and is downregulated with ...
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