UnitedHealthcare to Expand Cochlear Implant Coverage for Children
UnitedHealthcare has expanded its coverage of cochlear implants to include children as young as 6 months effective Sept. 1, 2024.
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Frequency Appoints Jeffery T. Lichtenhan to Clinical Development Team
Frequency Therapeutics, Inc (Nasdaq: FREQ) announced the expansion of its clinical development team with the addition of Jeffery T. Lichtenhan, PhD, an expert in hearing diagnostics and measurement.
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Bone Density Loss Drugs May Help Treat Sensorineural Hearing Loss
The scientists administered bisphosphonates to mice 24 hours after noise exposure. They found that the medication had a dramatic effect at regenerating the synapses between inner hair cells and spiral ganglion neurons found in the ear, and restoring cochlear function.
Predicting the Intent of a Hearing Aid Wearer
The number-one desire of people with hearing loss is not to make sound louder; it’s to hear well in noise. Improving the signal-to-noise ratio in hearing aids has evolved rapidly in the last several years. The evolution now continues with new viable and pragmatic combinations of hearing aids, Internet, smartphones, multiple wireless protocols, GPS, and more, opening up entirely new avenues for truly personalized hearing care.
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Rinri Therapeutics Secures $1.78 Million Seed Funding for SNHL Cell Therapy
Rinri’s underlying technology, based on innovative stem cell research, seeks to reverse neuropathic sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) through the repair of the damaged cytoarchitecture in the inner ear.
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Audion Therapeutics and Regain Consortium Report Positive Phase I Results from Drug to Treat SNHL
LY3056480 mediated Notch inhibition is aimed at regeneration of inner ear sensory hair cells that are lost with advancing age.
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Dichotic Listening in Elderly, Hearing-Impaired Persons: An Exercise in Pattern Recognition
It is well known that a patient’s audiometric configuration does not, and cannot, always describe the true impact of a hearing loss. Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) is often accompanied by a decline in cognitive function and/or deficits in central auditory processing. This article by James Jerger, PhD, shows how the Dichotic Sentence Identification (DSI) Test can help differentiate between simple SNHL and those hearing losses involving cognitive decline or auditory processing disorder (APD) in older adults.
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Strekin AG Publishes Data on Drug to Treat Sensorineural Hearing Loss
The paper “Pioglitazone represents an effective therapeutic target in preventing oxidative/inflammatory cochlear damage induced by noise exposure” was published in “Frontiers in Pharmacology.”
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Cord Blood Infusions May Improve ABRs in Pediatric SNHL Patients, Reports CBR
The study is said to have demonstrated that the cord blood infusions were safe, feasible, and well-tolerated. In addition, 45% of participants showed improvements on Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) after their infusion.
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Using Audiology To Extend a Musician’s Career
Recently there have been news reports about famous musicians who can no longer perform their music and have chosen to retire. “By hook or by crook, that should not happen,” says Marshall Chasin, AuD.
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Effects of Amplification on Cortical Electrophysiological Function
There has been great interest in using speech-evoked cortical auditory evoked potentials (CAEP) as an objective hearing aid validation measure, because CAEPs allow us to assess the audibility of speech sounds at the highest (cortical) levels. Here is a review by Sridhar Krishnamurti and Larry Wise, as well as results from a study they conducted that suggests there is clinical value of CAEPs for assessing cortical changes from amplification, as well as using this data in audiology services to demonstrate patient benefit.
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Researchers Find Connection Between Protein Mutation and Hearing Loss
A trio of researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) found mutations in a master-switch protein called Epithelial Splicing Regulatory Protein 1 (ESRP1) in individuals with SNHL.
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Auditory Deprivation, Brain Changes Secondary to Hearing Loss, and More: An Interview with Anu Sharma, PhD
For this installment of Inside Clinical Research, Dr Doug Beck discusses with researcher Anu Sharma, PhD, her work in cross modal plasticity of the brain and cortical resource allocation as related to hearing loss. Dr Sharma also discusses other aspects of auditory deprivation on the human brain.
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BrainHearing: Maximizing Hearing and Listening
BrainHearing endeavors to help the brain orient, separate, focus, and recognize sounds in order to apply meaning through the use of modern and highly sophisticated technologies and improved hearing aid fitting protocols to maximize hearing and listening.
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