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Patient Older Age Not an Issue in Revision Cochlear Implantation
 Sometimes patients with coclear implants need to have a second or "revision" implantation surgery because of device failure. A new study finds that adults age 65 and older do just as well in speech perception after revision cochlear implantation as those younger than 65. |
Released: 22-Jan-2015 2:55 PM EST
University of North Carolina School of Medicine |
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Scientists Discover Blocking Notch Inhibition Pathway Provides a New Route to Hair Cell Regeneration for Hearing Restoration
 Scientists from Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School and Fudan University have shown that blocking the Notch pathway plays an essential role that determines cochlear progenitor cell proliferation capacity. |
Released: 22-Dec-2014 3:00 PM EST
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary |
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Quiet as a Mouse, but So Much to Hear
Micheal L. Dent, a University at Buffalo psychologist, listens to what is inaudible to others. And what she’s hearing might one day help us better understand human hearing loss. |
Released: 4-Dec-2014 2:00 PM EST
University at Buffalo |
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TSRI Researchers Find How Mutant Gene Can Cause Deafness
 Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have discovered how one gene is essential to hearing, uncovering a cause of deafness and suggesting new avenues for therapies. |
Released: 20-Nov-2014 5:00 PM EST
Scripps Research Institute |
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Are Ear Infections Overtreated in White Children?
 Black children are less likely to be diagnosed with and less likely to receive broad-spectrum antibiotics for ear infections than white children are, a new study has found. But the discrepancy in prescribing fewer broad-spectrum antibiotics means black children actually are more likely to receive care that aligns with the recommended guidelines for treating ear infections. Possible behaviors explaining the trend are overdiagnosis and overtreatment in white children and underdiagnosis and undertreatment in black children. The report appears in Pediatrics online on November 17, 2014. |
Embargo expired: 17-Nov-2014 12:05 AM EST
Released: 13-Nov-2014 2:10 PM EST
University of Utah Health Sciences |
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Ears and Hearing Effects Continue to Reverberate after Boston Marathon Bombing
 Boston researchers detail the types of otologic injury suffered by victims of the Boston Marathon bombing and report on the outcomes of patients undergoing otologic treatment in this paper in Otology & Neurology. |
Embargo expired: 14-Nov-2014 11:00 AM EST
Released: 14-Nov-2014 10:00 AM EST
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary |
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High Rate of Ear and Hearing Injuries after Boston Marathon Bombings
After the Boston Marathon bombings, more than 100 people were treated for trauma affecting the ears and hearing—with many having persistent or worsening hearing loss or other symptoms, reports a study in the December issue of Otology & Neurotology. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health. |
Released: 14-Nov-2014 10:15 AM EST
Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins |
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Best Supporting Actors – in Your Ears? U-M Research Points to Potential Way to Restore Hearing
 There’s a cast of characters deep inside your ears -- many kinds of tiny cells working together to allow you to hear. The lead actors, called hair cells, play the crucial role in carrying sound signals to the brain. But new research shows that when it comes to restoring lost hearing ability, the spotlight may fall on some of the ear’s supporting actors – and their understudies. |
Released: 12-Nov-2014 7:00 AM EST
University of Michigan Health System |
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Novel Tinnitus Therapy Helps Patients Cope with Phantom Noise
 Patients with tinnitus hear phantom noise and are sometimes so bothered by the perceived ringing in their ears, they have difficulty concentrating. A new therapy does not lessen perception of the noise but appears to help patients cope better with it in their daily lives, according to new research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. |
Embargo expired: 30-Oct-2014 4:00 PM EDT
Released: 30-Oct-2014 11:00 AM EDT
Washington University in St. Louis |
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Hearing Loss in One Infant Twin Affects Mother’s Speech to Both Babies
Is it possible that hearing loss in one infant from a pair of twins can affect the mother’s speech to both infants? A new acoustics study zeroes in on this question and suggests that not only is this alteration of speech entirely possible, but that mothers speak to both infants as if they are hearing impaired. |
Embargo expired: 29-Oct-2014 3:00 PM EDT
Released: 23-Oct-2014 7:05 PM EDT
Acoustical Society of America (ASA) |