The antibiotic gentamicin has been used to successfully treat a rare illness that affects the inner ear. This was confirmed by Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences' retrospective evaluation of the results of treatment ...
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Exposure to loud noise, such as a firecracker or an ear-splitting concert, is the most common preventable cause of hearing loss. Research suggests that 12% or more of the world population is at risk for noise-induced loss ...
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Looking for answers about how the brain works amid age-related hearing loss, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they have found that old mice were less capable than young mice of "turning off" certain actively firing ...
Dec 22, 2022
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It's well known that exposure to extremely loud noises—whether it's an explosion, a firecracker or even a concert—can lead to permanent hearing loss. But knowing how to treat noise-induced hearing loss, which affects ...
May 7, 2018
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Scientists at Harvard Medical School say they have ended a 40-year-quest for the elusive identity of the sensor protein responsible for hearing and balance.
Aug 22, 2018
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Have you ever experienced a constant ringing in your ears that you can't pinpoint the cause? It might be tinnitus—the sensation of hearing a sound when no external sound is present. In most cases, tinnitus can be managed, ...
Jan 19, 2023
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New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine is shedding light on the biological architecture that lets us hear—and on a genetic disorder that causes both deafness and blindness.
May 26, 2020
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A cross-disciplinary team of researchers in the College of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) has discovered hearing impairment in a preclinical model of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). More specifically, ...
Dec 21, 2022
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On Christmas Eve, 2002, Bryce Faber was diagnosed with a deadly cancer called neuroblastoma. The 2-year-old's treatment, which, in addition to surgery, included massive amounts of radiation followed by even more massive amounts ...
Jan 2, 2015
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An international team of researchers has developed a new method to deliver drugs into the inner ear. The discovery was made possible by harnessing the natural flow of fluids in the brain and employing a little understood ...
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