A new study reveals that binaural pitch fusion, crucial for understanding speech in noisy environments, continues to develop later than thought in children, presenting new opportunities for treatment and intervention.
Rinri Therapeutics has developed a minimally invasive surgical method that advances neural hearing loss treatment.
The International Hearing Society (IHS) has provided a set of guidelines for when/how often individuals should check their hearing.
Merri Rosen, PhD, director of Hearing Research at Northeast Ohio Medical University, has been...
In an article published on the ”Discover Magazine” website, author Sarah Katz challenges the view in the scientific community that deafness is a problem that needs to be cured, potentially by new CRISPR technology that could eliminate a TMC1 gene mutation.
Akouos, Inc announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) Committee for Orphan Medicinal Products (COMP) issued a positive opinion on the company’s application for orphan drug designation for AK-OTOF, a gene therapy intended for the treatment of otoferlin gene-mediated hearing loss. The positive opinion was subsequently adopted by the European Commission.
A new product designed to treat eardrum perforations developed by a Harvard doctoral student, Nicole Black, has just won the “Cure It!” Lemelson-MIT Student Prize.