Many disorders of the inner hear which affect both hearing and balance can be hugely debilitating and are currently largely incurable. Cochlear implants have been used for many years to replace lost hearing resulting from ...
Jun 13, 2013
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Disabling hearing loss affects one in every ten people and up to 25% of people over 60, according to the World Health Organization, and can have both genetic and environmental causes such as infections and noise exposure. ...
Jan 31, 2023
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An inner-ear implant may help people with a debilitating balance disorder get steady on their feet again, an early study suggests.
Feb 11, 2021
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Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have identified a group of progenitor cells in the inner ear that can become the sensory hair cells and adjacent supporting cells that enable hearing. Studying these ...
Feb 26, 2013
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(HealthDay)—Most adult patients have statistically significant postoperative improvements in speech recognition after receiving cochlear implants, according to a study published online Jan. 7 in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head ...
Jan 14, 2021
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Cochlear implants enable people with profound hearing impairment to gain a great deal in terms of quality of life, including understanding spoken words and developing normal speech. However, background noises are problematic; ...
Apr 26, 2021
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Clinical-researchers from University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center report that cochlear implantation provides an effective and safe way of restoring hearing in patients with far advanced otosclerosis (FAO), a hereditary ...
Apr 21, 2012
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Children learning to speak depend on functional hearing. So-called cochlear implants allow deaf people to hear again by stimulating the auditory nerve directly. Researchers at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) are ...
Dec 2, 2013
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Researchers at UNSW Australia have for the first time used electrical pulses delivered from a cochlear implant to deliver gene therapy, thereby successfully regrowing auditory nerves.
Apr 23, 2014
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Researchers at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (UCL GOS ICH) have grown "mini eyes," which make it possible to study and better understand the development of blindness in a rare genetic disease called Usher ...
Nov 18, 2022
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