Still Battling Turf Wars: 2022
Turf wars are sometimes disguised as SOP issues.
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Search Results for: Institute of Medicine
Researchers Study Mechanism of Antibiotic Hair Cell Death
Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine are developing new ways to study why an antibiotic causes hair cell death and permanent hearing loss in people.
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U of Miami Researchers to Study Hearing Loss in Usher Syndrome
The NIH grant will fund Miller School research aimed at developing and testing novel therapy approaches with gene editing. Gene editing is a group of technologies that allow scientists to change an organism’s DNA. CRISPR-Cas9 is a popular gene editing technology developed to treat genetic disorders.
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Synapse Breakdown Accelerates Age-related Hearing Loss
Gabriel Corfas, PhD, who serves as the director of Michigan Medicine’s Kresge Hearing Research Institute, says that one of the first events in “cochlear aging” that leads to hearing loss is the breakdown of synapses between inner hair cells, or IHCs, and spiral ganglion neurons, or SGNs.
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FDA Approves Fennec Pedmark Ototoxicity Drug
Fennec Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: FENC; TSX: FRX), a specialty pharmaceutical company, announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Fennec Pedmark (sodium thiosulfate injection) to reduce the risk of ototoxicity associated with cisplatin in pediatric patients one month of age and older with localized, non-metastatic solid tumors. This approval reportedly makes Pedmark “the first and only treatment approved by the FDA in this area of significant unmet medical need.”
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A Deeper Dive into Cognition & Audiology: 2022
Approximately 55 million people (globally) have acquired dementia and that number is expected to triple in the next 28 years (by 2050). Despite disappointment regarding the pharmacologic treatment of Alzheimer’s disease (there are as-of-yet no drugs which cure or reverse Alzheimer’s Disease, when cognitive disorders are screened, diagnosed, and managed early, the opportunity to positively alter the trajectory of cognitive decline increases. In this article, we’ll examine some lesser-known factors and recent peer-reviewed findings which may impact our understanding of the relationship between cognition and audition.
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The Power of Empathy and Compassion
Patient Care | September 2022 Hearing Review Giving voice to the unspoken pain...
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Why the One-Size-Fits-All Approach to Tinnitus is Not Successful
Even though there is no cure for tinnitus today, good approaches that significantly reduce the burden of affected individuals are available. Therefore, it is hoped that the message to sufferers that they have to “live with their tinnitus” will become less and less pronounced.
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ACI Alliance Interviews Voice of Lead Character In ‘El Deafo’
The American Cochlear Implant Alliance (ACI Alliance) published the story of Lexi Finigan, a cochlear implant recipient who voiced the title character in the 2022 streaming series “El Deafo.”
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Imaging Test May Pinpoint Age-related Hearing Loss
A well-known imaging test that radiologists use to monitor blood flow from the heart may soon be deployed to pinpoint what part of the ear is experiencing age-related hearing loss, according to an article published on the University of South Florida’s website.
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Non-auditory Effects of Environmental Noise
An insightful study of environmental noise and its potential impacts on health.
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Bimodal Best Practice Hearing Guidelines Published
An international group of audiology experts including University of Miami Miller School of Medicine faculty has authored “first-of-their-kind guidelines” of best practices for managing hearing loss in adults with bimodal hearing configurations.
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Cognivue Announces Audiology Advisory Committee Members
Neuroscience company Cognivue announced that it has recruited 16 national leaders for its new Audiology Advisory Committee.
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In Memoriam: Dr James Byron Snow, Jr, Past NIDCD Director
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), one of the National Institutes of Health, announced, with deep sadness, the passing of former NIDCD director Dr James Byron Snow, Jr, MD, who died on May 28, 2022. Dr Snow made significant contributions to research and clinical practice in otolaryngology (diseases of the ear, nose, throat, and related structures of the head and neck) and is considered a pioneer in the field.
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Starkey’s Achin Bhowmik Named AAIA Fellow
The AAIA gathers top scientists within different disciplines and seeks to connect them with entrepreneurs to help advance the development and deployment of AI technologies.
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