Category: Hearing Disorders

Hearing Disorders

Technique Uses Vibration to Better Diagnose Balance Disorders

Researchers have developed a novel vibration-based technique to more accurately diagnose balance disorders like Meniere’s disease, especially in aging adults.

Hearing Disorders

Gold Standard Treatment for Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss

In this case study, a man with hearing loss after a stroke benefits from hyperbaric oxygen therapy and steroid treatments.

Hearing Disorders

Spiral Therapeutics Partners with the Vestibular Disorders Association on Patient-Centric Care in Neurotology

Spiral Therapeutics is partnering with the Vestibular Disorders Association to improve the lives of patients suffering from balance disorders.

Auditory Processing Disorders

Angela Loucks Alexander Discusses APD in TEDx Talk

In a recent TEDx talk called “Escaping the Hidden Prison of Auditory Processing Disorder,” Angela Loucks Alexander recalls being locked in a basement from the ages of 13-17 with no access to running water or a bathroom and not “talked to or touched,” apart from a twice-per-day sandwich delivery from her father.

Conductive

‘Discover Magazine’ Article Challenges Notion of Deafness as Something to Be ‘Cured’

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.

Sensorineural

Akouos’ AK-OTOF Receives Orphan Drug Designation

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.

Meniere’s, Mixed, Syndromic

PhonoGraft Product Designed for Eardrum Repair

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.