A Johns Hopkins Medicine study of about 50 people with Alzheimer’s disease has added to evidence that damage to the inner ear system that controls balance is a major factor in patients’ well-documented higher risk of falling.
Heuser Hearing Institute, a Louisville nonprofit, announced that Dr Ingrid Edwards has been chosen as a 2021 Health Care Hero from Louisville Business First. These annual awards recognize professionals who have made an impact on healthcare in their community through their concern for patients, research and inventions, management skills, innovative programs for employees, and service to the poor and uninsured.
Researchers at the Amsterdam University Medical Centers (UMC) have created a Dutch version of the Balance Retraining interactive website and researched its effectiveness. This builds on the success of an English version of the site which has been running for over two years—helping 3,500 patients to date.
The study was a literature search and meta-analysis of 10 studies published in PubMed, Web of Science, and Embase from 1973 to 2017 on the association between the rate of hearing recovery and vertigo.
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The aim of this project is to develop a specific gene therapy program aimed at correcting an inherited monogenic form of deafness caused by a mutation in the gene encoding for the Otoferlin protein (DNBF9).
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The aim of this project is to develop a specific gene therapy program aimed at correcting an inherited monogenic form of deafness caused by a mutation in the gene encoding for the Otoferlin protein (DNBF9).
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An eight-year veteran of the Institute, Grace is said to have been pivotal to its growth and advancement in diagnosing and treating patients with vestibular dysfunction and hearing loss.
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An eight-year veteran of the Institute, Grace is said to have been pivotal to its growth and advancement in diagnosing and treating patients with vestibular dysfunction and hearing loss.
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Using a zebrafish model, researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have found that artemisinin, an anti-malarial drug, may help treat forms of hereditary hearing and vision loss associated with clarin1 mutations like Usher syndrome.
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Using a zebrafish model, researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have found that artemisinin, an anti-malarial drug, may help treat forms of hereditary hearing and vision loss associated with clarin1 mutations like Usher syndrome.
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The site is said to offer basic information about a variety of audiologic and vestibular conditions along with treatment options, and provides consumers with step-by-step guidance and resources on how to best address their concerns and their condition.
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For the majority of people with Meniere’s disease who had fast horizontal eye movements, the goggles were able to diagnose the type of vertigo accurately with a sensitivity of 95% and a specificity of 82%.
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The clinicians will outline how they perform comprehensive balance evaluations and various methods of vestibular rehabilitation, including the use of virtual reality, in an audiology setting. They will also discuss outcome statistics following treatment and share case studies.
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The Hearing Industries Association (HIA), in partnership with the Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA), the American Academy of Audiology (AAA), the Academy of Doctors of Audiology (ADA), and the International Hearing Society, has launched a public awareness campaign to promote better hearing called “Hear Well. Stay Vital.”
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The five webinars cover topics such as ASSR, vestibular dysfunction, catch‑up saccades, and REM.
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Starkey has released its new Fall Detection and Alert feature in Livio AI hearing aids to a limited number of hearing professionals, and plans to offer the feature to all dispensing professionals and their clients in late February. Using integrated sensors, the Fall Detection and Alert feature is designed to automatically detect falls and send messages to as many as three contacts.
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The data, if collected properly, will help allow a physician to better identify why a patient has episodes of dizziness. Recordings from the application—including video, motion, and pupil tracking—are all said to be automatically uploaded to the DizzyDoctor website. For a fee, this data can be processed for the purpose of diagnosing.
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The 2018 Association of Adult Musicians with Hearing Loss (AAMHL) web conference, Coping with Hearing Loss: Strategies for Musical People, will be held on November 17, 2018, 2:00-3:30 pm EST.
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