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The first study to map the prevalence of bilateral hearing loss in the United States by state and county finds that rates of hearing loss are higher among men, non-Hispanic whites, and residents of rural areas. Bilateral ...
Jan 29, 2024
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Gene therapy has allowed several children born with inherited deafness to hear.
Jan 28, 2024
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Computational models that mimic the structure and function of the human auditory system could help researchers design better hearing aids, cochlear implants, and brain-machine interfaces. A new study from MIT has found that ...
Dec 13, 2023
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Recent technological advancements have opened invaluable opportunities for assisting people who are experiencing impairments or disabilities. For instance, they have enabled the creation of tools to support physical rehabilitation, ...
Professor Pavel Jungwirth and his colleagues from the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IOCB Prague) and the cochlear implant company MED-EL, based in Austria have come up with ...
Nov 22, 2023
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A global survey put out by York University's Faculty of Education and the Cochlear Implant International Community of Action (CIICA), a user advocacy organization, shows that most deaf and deafened adults who have cochlear ...
Nov 10, 2023
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Evan Nix, MD, and colleagues in the division of Otology/Neurotology and Skull Base Surgery and the division of Auditory Research in the UNC Department of Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery have been studying the functional ...
Oct 3, 2023
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Adolescents with cochlear implants (CIs) have better outcomes in terms of language, academic performance, and quality of life, according to a study published online June 29 in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery.
Jul 3, 2023
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For the first two weeks of life, mice with a hereditary form of deafness have nearly normal neural activity in the auditory system, according to a new study by Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists. Their previous studies indicate ...
Jun 27, 2023
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Humans have five senses to perceive their environment: Sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste. If a person loses one of these, the remaining senses partially compensate for the loss. People born deaf then have enhanced visual ...
May 3, 2023
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