Breaking news on hearing-deafness
Molecules Involved In Touch And Other Mechanically Activated Systems Identified published
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:00:00 PDT
Scripps Research Institute scientists have identified two proteins with potential to be important targets for research into a wide range of health problems, including pain, deafness, and cardiac and kidney dysfunction. The study was published in Science Express, the advanced, online edition of the journal Science...
Hearing-Aid.com Launches Today; Provides Tips, Tools For Hearing Loss published
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:00:00 PDT
Hearing loss affects millions of Americans, but finding out information about hearing loss and hearing help has been a challenge - until now. Hearing-Aid.com is a new resource designed to provide people with hearing loss, and those that love them, with all of the resources they need to attack hearing loss head-on...
Hooked On Headphones? Personal Listening Devices Can Harm Hearing published
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:00:00 PDT
Personal listening devices like iPods have become increasingly popular among young - and not-so-young - people in recent years. But music played through headphones too loud or too long might pose a significant risk to hearing, according to a 24-year study of adolescent girls...
Early In Life Cell Signals That Tell Where Sensory Organs Will Form Inside The Ear Disappear, But Could Possibly Be Recharged To Restore Hearing Loss published
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 PDT
Researchers have tracked a cell-to-cell signaling pathway that designates the future location of the ear's sensory organs in embryonic mice. The scientists succeeded in activating this signal more widely across the embryonic tissue that becomes the inner ear. Patches of sensory structures began growing in spots where they don't normally appear...
UK's First Cochlear Implant Operation To Give Sound In Both Ears published
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:00:00 PDT
The UK's first operation to fit a single cochlear implant capable of giving sound in both ears has taken place, thanks to the work of the South of England Cochlear Implant Centre (SOECIC), based at the University of Southampton. A cochlear implant is an electronic device that can help both adults and children who have a severe to profound hearing loss...
Auditory Neurons Simply Process The First Strong Signal, Ignoring The Echoes published
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:00:00 PDT
Voices carry, reflect off objects and create echoes. Most people rarely hear the echoes; instead they only process the first sound received. For the hard of hearing, though, being in an acoustically challenging room can be a problem. For them, echoes carry. Ever listen to a lecture recorded in a large room? That most people only process the first-arriving sound is not new...
Seeking Quality Education For Deaf Blind Children In Today's Environment published
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Deaf blind children can be isolated and disconnected from people and activities. Without individualized support, they cannot access visual and auditory information and often complete school unable to seek future education, employment, or independent living. Providing appropriate special education and related services for deaf blind children poses unique challenges...
Rolling Out The Best In Eye And Ear Care published
Thu, 26 Aug 2010 03:00:00 PDT
Prevent Blindness Mid-Atlantic, in partnership with the Richmond Eye and Ear Foundation and Stony Point Surgery Center, is pleased to roll out their mobile eye and ear screening unit, appropriately called WHEELS (Where Healthy Eyes and Ears Lead to Success)...
Panasonic Digital Hearing Instruments Now Available In The U.S. Hearing Care Market published
Thu, 26 Aug 2010 03:00:00 PDT
Panasonic Corporation of North America, announced that Panasonic Hearing instruments have been delivered to the U.S. market. The company is debuting three types of digital hearing instruments, including a new form factor that resembles the style of an MP3 player, a receiver-in-canal and behind-the-ear models. Panasonic is currently establishing a distribution network throughout the U.S...
Seeking Quality Education For Deaf-Blind Children In Today's Environment published
Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Deaf-blind children can be isolated and disconnected from people and activities. Without individualized support, they cannot access visual and auditory information and often complete school unable to seek future education, employment, or independent living. Providing appropriate special education and related services for deaf-blind children poses unique challenges...
New Norwegian Earplug Solution To A Deafening Problem published
Sat, 21 Aug 2010 02:00:00 PDT
Some 600 cases of noise-induced hearing impairment are reported by the Norwegian petroleum industry every year. A new, intelligent earplug is now set to alleviate the problem. Norway's largest company, Statoil ASA, is taking the problems associated with noise exposure seriously...
Hearing Loss In U.S. Adolescents More Prevalent published
Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:00:00 PDT
Hearing loss is now affecting nearly 20 percent of U.S. adolescents age 12-19, a rise of 5 percent over the last 15 years, according to a new Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) study co-led by Ron Eavey, M.D., director of the Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center and the Guy M. Maness Professor in Otolaryngology...
Digital Helpers For The Hearing Impaired published
Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Every fifth German is hearing impaired. In their private and in their work lives, they are restricted such as when making a telephone call. Researchers are now ready with a digital solution, one that can partially compensate for the hearing loss. Soon, the system will be integrated into devices such as telephone systems and cell phones...
First Test Of Sign Language By Cell Phone Performed By Deaf, Hard-Of-Hearing Students published
Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:00:00 PDT
University of Washington engineers are developing the first device able to transmit American Sign Language over U.S. cellular networks. The tool is just completing its initial field test by participants in a UW summer program for deaf and hard-of-hearing students...
Hearing Loss Among US Teenagers Increases By 31% published
Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:00:00 PDT
Hearing loss among American teenagers rose by approximately 31% from 1988-1994 to 2005-2006, according to a study published in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association). In the year 2005-2006 one fifth of all US kids had some level of hearing loss. The report states that hearing loss is a common sensory disorder that affects tens of millions of Americans of all ages...
Hope For A Cure For Tinnitus - 'Ringing In The Ears' published
Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:00:00 PDT
The NIH has granted a University of Texas at Dallas researcher and a university-affiliated biomedical firm $1.7 million to investigate whether nerve stimulation offers a long-term cure for tinnitus. Described as a ringing in the ears, tinnitus affects 20 percent to 40 percent of recently returned military veterans and about 10 percent of all people over 65 years old. The U.S...
Embracing The Challenges In NHS Audiology - Siemens Hearing Instruments Launches National Roadshow To Inform And Share Ideas To Enhance Productivity published
Thu, 05 Aug 2010 02:00:00 PDT
Siemens Hearing Instruments is running a series of 'Partner of Choice' roadshows at venues across the UK to reinforce its commitment to supporting NHS audiology departments in the face of growing pressures to increase efficiency...
Annual Meeting Supplement Now Available For Otolaryngology - Head And Neck Surgery published
Tue, 03 Aug 2010 03:00:00 PDT
The 2010 Annual Meeting & OTO EXPO of the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF), the largest meeting of ear, nose, and throat doctors in the world, will convene September 26-29, in Boston, MA. The official abstract supplement for the annual meeting is now available here with the regular August 2010 issue of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery...
Genetic Link Between Two Rare Diseases Established By Next Generation Sequencing published
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:00:00 PDT
Scientists have successfully used "next generation sequencing" to identify mutations that may cause a rare and mysterious genetic disorder...
30th Anniversary Of First Pediatric Cochlear Implant published
Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:00:00 PDT
This July, House Ear Institute (HEI) celebrates the 30th Anniversary of the first pediatric cochlear implant. HEI received FDA approval for a clinical trial in July 1980 to implant three patients under the age of 18 with the single-channel cochlear implant. The single-channel device had been developed at HEI by William House, M.D., in the 1960s and successfully implanted in adults...
Scientific Review Of How Music Training Primes Nervous System And Boosts Learning published
Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:00:00 PDT
Those ubiquitous wires connecting listeners to you-name-the-sounds from invisible MP3 players -- whether of Bach, Miles Davis or, more likely today, Lady Gaga -- only hint at music's effect on the soul throughout the ages...
Autism Detected In Unique Vocal Signature Of Baby Talk published
Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:00:00 PDT
Using a new type of "vocal signature" technology that focuses on sound patterns rather than words in child vocalizations and baby talk, researchers in the US say they have proved in principle that it is possible to screen for autism spectrum disorders in young children; they also hope the new method will greatly enhance the study of language development because it...
New York Rehabilitation And Nursing Center Agrees To Serve Patients Who Are Deaf Or Hard Of Hearing published
Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:00:00 PDT
Under an agreement announced by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing will be provided equal access to a nursing and rehabilitation facility in New York State and will be provided interpretation services when necessary for effective communication...
Gene Mutation Identified, Causes Rare Form Of Deafness published
Tue, 13 Jul 2010 01:00:00 PDT
Researchers have identified a gene mutation that causes a rare form of hearing loss known as auditory neuropathy, according to U-M Medical School scientists. In the study published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, U-M's Marci Lesperance, M.D., and Margit Burmeister, Ph.D...
New Discovery May Aid In Creation Of Therapies For Visual, Hearing Problems published
Thu, 08 Jul 2010 04:00:00 PDT
It's safe to say that cilia, the hairlike appendages jutting out from the smooth surfaces of most mammalian cells, have long been misunderstood - underestimated, even. Not to be confused with their whiplike cousins flagella, which propel sperm, one type of cilia has been known to serve as microscopic conveyor belts. (Picture cilia reaching up like concertgoers supporting a crowd-surfer...
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