Prenatal Screening Method to ID Risk for CMV-Related Hearing Loss
A new study suggests noninvasive prenatal screening can detect cytomegalovirus, a common cause of permanent hearing loss in newborns.
Category: Hearing Disorders
Hearing Disorders
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Hearing Disorders
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Research Reveals Why Some People Don’t Enjoy Music
Researchers have identified what causes “specific musical anhedonia”—a condition where people feel no pleasure from music.
Hearing Disorders
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COVID-19 and the Auditory System – Five Years Later
A look at what we now know about how COVID-19 has been found to affect the auditory system, based on a review of the literature.
Auditory Processing Disorders
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Cilcare Secures Funding to Advance Clinical Trials for Cochlear Synaptopathy Treatment
Cilcare raised €40 million in Series A funding to initiate two clinical trials in 2025 for treatment of cochlear synaptopathy.
Conductive
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‘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
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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.
Meniere’s, Mixed, Syndromic
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Sound Pharma Gets Positive Results from Meniere’s Disease Drug Clinical Trial
Sound Pharmaceuticals' Phase 3 trial of an anti-inflammatory drug for Meniere’s disease showed significant improvements in hearing loss.