Health
Top priorities named in hearing loss research
Experts have published a list of the most urgent priorities for researching a debilitating condition that affects more than 10 million people in the UK.
Nov 26, 2015
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Health
Could a questionnaire identify hearing loss?
Twice as many people living in rural areas suffer hearing difficulties compared to urban residents, due to excessive noise exposure from agricultural industries.
Nov 20, 2015
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Medical research
Sound deprivation leads to irreversible hearing loss
Massachusetts Eye and Ear investigators have shown that sound deprivation in adult mice causes irreversible damage to the inner ear. The findings, published in PLOS ONE, suggest that chronic conductive hearing loss, such ...
Nov 18, 2015
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Health
Hospital ordered to pay $10M for late meningitis diagnosis
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has been ordered to pay $10 million to the mother of a boy whose bacterial meningitis wasn't promptly diagnosed despite multiple emergency room visits.
Nov 18, 2015
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Health
An effective integrated reproductive strategy for hearing loss
Hearing impairment is a major public health problem in the world, affecting over 5% of the world's population - 360 million people, including 328 million adults and 32 million children. Professor WANG Qiuju and her group ...
Nov 10, 2015
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Medical research
Genetic modification shows promise for preventing hereditary hearing loss
A mitochondrial defect is responsible for a type of human hereditary deafness that worsens over time and can lead to profound hearing loss. Using a genetically-modified mice model with a mitochondrial dysfunction that results ...
Nov 6, 2015
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Medical research
Noise-induced hearing loss—genetic cause and mechanism discovered
Scientists at the Institut Pasteur, Inserm, the Collège de France and Pierre & Marie Curie University, working closely with scientists at the University of Auvergne, have recently discovered the function of pejvakin, a molecule ...
Nov 5, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Chemotherapy-induced hearing loss affects cognition in pediatric brain tumor survivors
More children are surviving malignant brain tumors than in the past, thanks to the use of intense treatments using platinum-based chemotherapy (cisplatin and high-dose carboplatin). Unfortunately, the therapy has a known ...
Nov 4, 2015
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Pediatrics
First-of-its-kind study shows kids with hearing loss benefit from early intervention
Hearing well impacts every area of a child's life—language and speech development, social skills, and future academic and life success.
Oct 27, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Babies' babbles reflect their own involvement in language development
'Dada' is a first word for many babies. Babbling sounds with consonant-vowel repetitions, such as 'dada,' are common among infants once they reach 8 months old; however, these sounds are not prevalent among infants who have ...
Oct 22, 2015
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