Protein Defects May Contribute to Usher Syndrome
Researchers have been able to demonstrate that defects in the SANS protein can lead to errors in the splicing of genes related to the Usher syndrome, which may provoke the disease.
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Author: Stefani Kim
Eargo Introduces Eargo 5 Hearing Aid
Eargo 5 is Eargo’s fifth-generation device and is a medical-grade, FDA Class II exempt hearing device designed to be “customizable by the user to their hearing preferences through all new Sound Match technology,” according to Eargo’s announcement. Through Sound Match, Eargo 5 “helps enable custom tuning with no clinic visits or waiting rooms.”
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Gallaudet Adds Deaf-friendly Businesses to Apple Maps
Gallaudet University and Apple have partnered on a new project that aims to make the Apple Maps feature more accessible to the deaf and hard-of-hearing community, according to an article on the “Forbes” website.
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Technology Can Improve Health Info Access for Deaf
Early in Dr Michael McKee’s career, one of his patients, who was deaf, died from a heart attack. It led him to study how to prevent it from happening to others. That tragic event might not have happened, he said, if there had been “accessible community health education programs to allow for deaf individuals to learn ways to improve their health and to recognize common danger signs of serious health conditions.”
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Common Ancestor for Cells Involved in Hearing, Touch
The sensory hearing cells in the inner ear and the touch receptors in the skin may have something in common according to a new study from the USC Stem Cell laboratory of Neil Segil published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences (PNAS), USC announced.
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Oticon More Rated ‘Best Product’ in Audiology Survey
Feedback from the audiologists participating in the 2021 Audiologist Survey noted that Oticon More had “great reliability, high fitting satisfaction, and excellent sound quality in both quiet and noisy settings.”
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Audigy Summit 2021 Took Place June 17-18
Audigy announced that 800 professionals representing independent hearing care and ear, nose, and throat practices across the US and Canada gathered for intensive learning and discussions about the future of the industry during Summit 2021: Momentum, June 17 and 18.
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Biden Executive Order Looks at Cost of Hearing Aids
According to “NPR,” the orders includes plans to allow hearing aids to be sold over the counter at pharmacies, much like Obama administration efforts that strived to make hearing aids less like pricy medical devices and as easy to purchase as reading glasses.
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AuDACITY 2021 Slated for October 25-27 in Portland
The Academy of Doctors of Audiology (ADA) will be holding its annual convention, AuDacity 2021, at the Marriott Downtown Waterfront Hotel in Portland, Ore, from October 25-27.
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Texas Deaf Chamber of Commerce Recognized as Nonprofit
The Texas Deaf Chamber of Commerce announced that it received a letter of determination from the IRS on June 10, 2021, recognizing the chamber as a 501 C (6) nonprofit organization.
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Act Expands Medicare to Cover Hearing Aids, Exams
US Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Chair of the House Ways & Means Health Subcommittee, announced that he is leading 76 Members of Congress in introducing the “Medicare Dental, Vision, and Hearing Benefit Act“ to expand the care Medicare provides.
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Cognivue to Study COVID-19 ‘Long-Haul Syndrome’
Neuroscience company Cognivue, Inc announced the initiation of COG-COVID19, an open-label, prospective, two-armed comparison clinical study to assess the impact of COVID-19 on cognitive function.
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Researchers Study Language Acquisition in Children
Small children learn language at a pace far faster than teenagers or adults. One explanation for this learning advantage comes not from differences between children and adults, but from the differences in the way that people talk to children and adults.
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Kaiser to Improve Access for Hearing Impaired
Southern California Permanente Medical Group and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals have agreed to resolve allegations that they violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by failing to provide at one of their facilities a qualified sign language interpreter or other appropriate form of auxiliary aid or service to a deaf patient, according to an announcement on the US Department of Justice (DOJ) website.
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Dopamine Plays Key Role in Songbird Sound Learning
Published in the “Journal of Neuroscience,” the finding that dopamine drives plasticity in the auditory pallium of zebra finches lays new groundwork for advancing the understanding of the functions of this neurotransmitter in an area of the brain that encodes complex stimuli.
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