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The latest information on hearing research for individuals who are experiencing hearing loss, looking for hearing health information for their loved ones, or just desire to learn more about new discoveries in hearing research to make the right hearing health decisions.
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January 12, 2010 - Loss of spiral ganglion neurons or hair cells in the inner ear is the leading cause of congenital and acquired hearing impairment....
Bats don't see very well. But they eat a bunch of mosquitoes by employing a form of sonar ? echolocation ? to snatch skeeters right out of the sky ? in...
A recent study from the University of Utah, co-authored by the Chair of the Bioengineering Department, Dr. Richard Rabbitt, has demonstrated that the human ear actually has tiny,...
14 December 2009 - A new study into hearing has uncovered the secret of our extraordinary ability to perceive a range of sounds - from a pin dropping to the...
A serendipitous discovery of deaf zebra fish larvae has helped narrow down the function of an elusive protein necessary for hearing and balance. The work, led by Rockefeller...
A gene associated with a rare form of progressive deafness in males has been identified by an international team of researchers funded by the National Institute on Deafness and...
Humans use their whole bodies, not just their ears, to understand speech, according to University of British Columbia linguistics research. It is well known that humans...
Christiaan Leeuwenburgh, Ph.D., chief of the biology of aging division at UF's College of Medicine and a member of the Institute on Aging and Jinze Xu, Ph.D., a postdoctoral...
Squeak, Squeak ? Can You Hear Me Now? Illustration by Mitch...
ScienceDaily (Nov. 30, 2009) - Long-term survivors of testicular cancer who were treated with cisplatin-based chemotherapy had more severe side effects,...
Tai Chi has been under the microscope of the American Academy of Otolaryngology (ear, nose, throat specialists) as a beneficial remedy for dizziness. This ancient, Chinese art...
Cleveland, Oct. 29 - While the public has made accommodations for 54.4 million people with disabilities, many researchers regularly exclude people who cannot...
Naerum, DK November 30 - Ida Institute recently convened a gathering of hearing care opinion leaders representing the audiology departments of 19 leading U.S....
by Dave Tenenbaum Becoming "hard of hearing" is a standard but unfortunate part of aging: A syndrome called age-related hearing loss affects about 40 percent...
Your ability to make sense of Groucho's words and Harpo's pantomimes in an old Marx Brothers movie takes place in the same regions of your brain, says new research funded by the...
"NTID Speechreading: CID Everyday Sentences Test" is now available on DVD to help audiologists and speech pathologists determine lip reading ability. See full-size photo A DVD...
ScienceDaily (Oct. 23, 2009) - Deep in the ear, 95 percent of the cells that shuttle sound to the brain are big, boisterous neurons that, to date, have...
Ear problems involve hearing loss, right? Well, that's what most of us think because we hear with our ears ? complex collections of membranes, bones, organs and other...
One of the causes of dizziness that can sometimes lead to a fall is vestibular disorder. A series of fluid-filled canals in the inner ear, the vestibular system, when healthy,...
The recommendation to lay babies on their backs to sleep has reduced sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), but has led to an increased number of infants with a skull deformity called deformational...
A computer which automatically recognises sign language enables children who are deaf or hard of hearing to expand their sign language vocabulary more quickly. Jeroen Lichtenauer...
More than half of babies born in rich nations today will live to 100 years if current life expectancy trends continue. And we are not only living longer than before, but those...
Deafness Research UK has awarded a new grant to Dr M Albert Basson and Dr Yuichiro Yaguchi of the Department of Crainiofacial Development at King's College London, to study how a...
Research Looks at Listening Effort and the Effects of Background Noise and Noise Reduction Minneapolis, Oct. 23, 2009 - The Starkey Hearing...
Dr. Craig Formby stands before his roto-tilt chair, which will aid in the study of...
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