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.
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‘Speech Neuroprosthesis’ Helps Restore Words
Researchers at UC San Francisco have successfully developed a “speech neuroprosthesis” that has enabled a man with severe paralysis to communicate in sentences, translating signals from his brain to the vocal tract directly into words that appear as text on a screen.
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Study Shows How Our Brain Syncs Hearing with Vision
Every high-school physics student learns that sound and light travel at very different speeds. If the brain did not account for this difference, it would be much harder for us to tell where sounds came from, and how they are related to what we see.
NIU Receives $430K Grant for Pediatric Hearing Aid
Northern Illinois University (NIU) announced that Mohammad Moghimi received the Early Career Research (ECR) Award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) to develop a novel pediatric hearing aid.
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A Changing Audiology Landscape: Six Opportunities for Patients and Audiologists
Even before the worldwide pandemic, inevitable developments in our field were approaching, presenting both threats and opportunities. This article identifies six of the major developments and highlights the opportunities that could be nurtured for both patients and audiology practices.
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Flies Regenerate Sensory Hearing Cells, Research Finds
In a new study published in the journal “Development,” USC Stem Cell scientists describe how adult flies can regenerate sensory hearing cells in their antennae, and how studying flies can provide a new way to understand and develop treatments for the hundreds of millions of patients worldwide who live with hearing and balance disorders.
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NIH Awards Creighton $10.8 Million to Study Pediatric Hearing Loss Due to Antibiotics
Creighton University’s Translational Hearing Center has been awarded “the largest National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant in the university’s history,” according to an announcement from the Nebraska-based school.
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NIH Grant Supports New Cochlear Implant Technique
Cooling the sensitive tissues of the inner ear before and during a cochlear implant surgery may lead to better hearing outcomes, according to a University of Miami Health System and College of Engineering researcher who is leading a collaborative team developing this therapeutic approach.
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Frequency Therapeutics Appoints Kevin Franck as SVP
Dr Franck will lead pre-commercial strategy and launch planning for Frequency’s clinical pipeline, including its lead program aimed at developing a restorative treatment for sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL), the most common form of hearing loss.
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Widex Launches PureSound Technology for Moment
The company announced the launch of Widex PureSound technology, available in its new WIDEX MOMENT hearing aids, featuring two distinct signal processing pathways — a “classic” version and a new ZeroDelay Accelerator pathway that “dramatically changes how hearing aids sound,” according to the company.
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Dabrafenib May Help to Protect Hearing, Researchers Say
The findings are significant because no such FDA-approved drug currently exists, and the drug that has shown effectiveness to protect hearing in animal models in the study, dabrafenib, is an FDA-approved drug that is currently used in treating cancers.
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ASHA Appoints A. Lynn Williams as 2021 President
In her term, Williams will work to advance the objectives of ASHA and its more than 211,000 members and affiliates who are audiologists; speech-language pathologists; speech, language, and hearing scientists; audiology and speech-language pathology support personnel; and students in communication sciences and disorders.
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TAU Scientists Develop Gene Therapy for Deafness
A new study from Tel Aviv University (TAU) presents an innovative treatment for deafness, based on the delivery of genetic material into the cells of the inner ear. The genetic material “replaces” the genetic defect and enables the cells to continue functioning normally.
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Purifying Gentamicin Could Reduce Hearing Loss Risk
Gentamicin is used in US hospitals to treat a variety of bacterial infections, including infections in newborns and in other susceptible patients, such as those with cystic fibrosis. Yet researchers estimate that up to 20% of patients who are treated with it experience some degree of irreversible hearing loss.
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‘Earable Computing’ New Focus of Research
CSL’s Systems and Networking Research Group (SyNRG) is defining a new sub-area of mobile technology that they call “earable computing.” The team believes that earphones will be the next significant milestone in wearable devices, and that new hardware, software, and apps will all run on this platform
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UCSF Researchers Find Drug That Helps Reverse Age-related Declines
The drug, called ISRIB, has already been shown in laboratory studies to restore memory function months after traumatic brain injury (TBI), reverse cognitive impairments in Down Syndrome, prevent noise-related hearing loss, fight certain types of prostate cancer, and even enhance cognition in healthy animals.
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Mass Eye and Ear Experts Urge FDA to Allow OTC Hearing Aid Devices
In a new column published November 19, 2020 in “The New England Journal of Medicine,” the experts write that the FDA has remained silent after missing the statutory deadline to implement the Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Act of 2017.
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Frère Jacques, Are You Sleeping? Research Shows Lullabies In Any Language Relax Babies
Researchers at Harvard’s Music Lab have determined that American infants relaxed when played lullabies that were unfamiliar and in a foreign language.
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