Hearing Loss Treatments

Respected medical journal publishes article validating treatment Sacramento, Calif., March. 7, 2007 A new study by Douglas Hetzler, M.D., an ear, nose and throat specialist Sut...

By Gwen Ericson March 8, 2007 -- On the battlefield, a soldier's hearing can be permanently damaged in an instant by the boom of an explosion, and thousands of soldiers returning...

A large proportion of genetically caused deafness in humans may be reversible by compensating for a missing protein, based on discoveries in mice. Emory University researchers...

Morgantown, W.Va. Children suffering from holes in their eardrums could have better success rates following surgery, thanks to findings from doctors at West University....

4/9/2007 - Have you ever walked by someone listening to their i-Pod loud enough for you recognize the song? Studies have shown noise-induced hearing loss is going to become the...

Former Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop Joins Pediatrics and Education Experts to Discuss How to Close Remaining Gaps Washington, D.C., May 9, 2007 - Hearing loss is the most...

Project funded by $900K grant from National Institutes of HealthHearing aids have existed, in one form or another, for hundreds of years. Wearable, electrical hearing aids have...

January 2, 2007 Annals of Internal Medicine Tip Sheet--In a three-year study, 728 older men and women with high blood homocysteine levels and no hearing loss were given either...

A recent meta-analysis combined individual data from children with acute otitis media as a means to identify groups of children who benefit from antibiotic management/treatment...

Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center are looking to develop a vaccination that would immunize young children and adults against Nontypeable Haemophilus...

It happened again last week. After a long day that included three extended conference calls and two group meetings, I crashed. This letdown wasn't the usual feeling afte...

Article on possible new targets for future gene therapy to restore hearing published in NATURELos Angeles - June 21, 2006 - Researchers at House Ear Institute have found a clue...

Seattle, June 12 /PRNewswire/ Sound Pharmaceuticals has started a 32 patient Phase 1 study of SPI-1005 in normal healthy volunteers. SPI-1005 is an oral capsule, and contains as...

Auris Medicals otoprotective drug AM-111 has been granted orphan drug status by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of acute sensorineural hearing loss...

University of Michigan Health System, Katie Gazella Around the world, inexpensive antibiotics known as aminoglycosides have been used for the past 60 years in the battles against...

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I would like to ask if a pediatric patient with a profound sensorinueral hearing loss would still have any chance of improving his hearing with the use of hearing aids? The patient in question is 5 years old.

I am very interested in joining the military. Since I was a kid, I have had my heart set on joining the Army Rangers. I now realize that it is impossible with any hearing loss at all (or is it?) What are my career options in the army?

My husband has hearing loss in both ears, the left more so than the right. He has had hearing aids for at least 4 years which seemed to help more at first but now it seems like he is having to turn them up more often to the point where one of them is beep

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If a person delays being fitted with hearing aids after being diagnosed with a hearing loss sufficient to require them, what negative effect could that have on the person's ability to hear as time goes by? Will replacement of hearing aids every 10 to 20 y

Restoration of inner ear hair cells damaged lost through disease, toxins or inherited problems is currently impossible in humans. However, studies in non-human animals show several areas of promise for treatment of hearing or vestibular loss.

I have had several sets of hearing aids--some costing over $2000.00 each. My major problem is that I have what is called Pilot's Ear. I can hear low tones fine, but above a certain octave my hearing goes to near -0-. None of the hearing aids I have had c

Coping with Hearing LossA person that loses their hearing may go through a myriad of emotions trying to understand their hearing loss. They may be in denial, feel anger, fe...

Bernafon Canada Kitchener, OntarioHearing in NoiseAudiologists are keenly aware of the problems people with hearing loss experience in background noise. These problems are...