Could an app help kids with severe ear condition avoid surgery?
A pair of special headphones plus a free app might help kids with hearing difficulty due to "glue ear," a new, small study suggests.
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A pair of special headphones plus a free app might help kids with hearing difficulty due to "glue ear," a new, small study suggests.
Oct 7, 2021
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A wireless kit, comprising headphones, a microphone, and an app might be a cheap alternative to the usual treatment of the common temporary hearing loss in kids, popularly known as 'glue ear,' finds a small study, published ...
Oct 4, 2021
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The cancer drug cisplatin can save children's lives, but often with the side effect of hearing loss. Now a new study shows that young children are especially vulnerable, and the hearing damage may begin early in the course ...
Sep 28, 2021
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The chemotherapy drug cisplatin is an effective cancer treatment for many children with cancer, but unfortunately it can cause permanent hearing loss. Results from a new study show that the hearing of very young children ...
Sep 7, 2021
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A University of Alberta research lab has helped identify a genetic variant that increases the risk of hearing loss in children with cancer who are treated with the widely used drug cisplatin.
Jul 28, 2021
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For years, researchers have known through numerous studies that hearing and other sensory systems of adults and children who have autism differ from children or adults without autism.
Nov 12, 2020
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When babies with hearing impairments get help very early in life, they are more likely to be "kindergarten-ready" when the time comes, a new study finds.
Sep 28, 2020
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(HealthDay)—Overall, 11.2 percent of the 2.6 billion children and adolescents worldwide had one of the following in 2017: childhood epilepsy, intellectual disability, vision loss, or hearing loss, according to a study published ...
Jun 17, 2020
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When we are born, our brains have a lot to learn. For the newborn baby, everything they learn about the world around them comes from their senses. Therefore, if a child's brain is deprived of sensory information, it will ...
Nov 6, 2019
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The first study investigating the independent impact of hearing impairment (HI) on school attendance for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children has been released today in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of ...
Oct 31, 2019
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