News on Hearing Research

Practical resource enhances ability to deliver patient-centered care Naerum, DK July 9 - Ida Institute today introduced the Reflective Journal, a practical tool to help hearing...

Millions unaware of danger from vestibular dysfunction; diabetes a risk factor, along with age May 20, 2009- A full third of American adults, 69 million men and women over age...

Pioneering research, being carried out in Nottingham, into the development of cochlear implants - hearing devices that convert sound into neural signals - and the future of this...

NIDCD Director James F. Battey, Jr., M.D., Ph.D., welcomed five new members to the National Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Advisory Council during the Council's...

Estrogen Found to Work Within Neurons to Facilitate Hearing and Memory Scientists at the University of Rochester have discovered that the hormone estrogen plays a pivotal role...

Finding May Lead to Better Understanding of How Body Responds to Mechanical Stimuli La Jolla, CA, May 13, 2009- Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute have elucidated...

An experimental vaccine applied to the surface of the skin appears to protect against certain types of ear infections. Scientists from the Research Institute at Nationwide...

Stanford, Calif. - Scientists thought they had a good model to explain how the inner ear translates vibrations in the air into sounds heard by the brain. Now, based on new...

When Uppsala researchers found immature stem cells in the inner ear of humans a few years ago, it caused a global sensation. They have also managed to grow hearing nerves from...

Hearing loss: A new class of genes has been identified as genetic cause for this clinical picture. Photo:...

April 21, 2009 - Utah and Texas researchers have learned how quiet sounds are magnified by bundles of tiny, hair-like tubes atop "hair cells" in the ear: when the tubes dance...

Study has potential to uncover new therapeutic approaches Cleveland - April 13, 2009 - Qing Yin Zheng, M.D., assistant professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and...

The National Temporal Bone Registry  is an organization tasked with maintaining a database of temporal bone donations and donors. Why the temporal bone? What's so important...

Despite modern medicine, one in 1,000 American babies are born deaf. The numbers increase markedly with age, with more than 50% of seniors in the United States experiencing some...

In parallel studies in human and mouse, two groups of researchers have come to the same conclusion: that a new kind of gene is associated with progressive hearing loss. The new...

Multi-Sensory Hearing You know those big floppy ears elephants have? Well, they've got those ears for a reason - to better capture sounds out on the savannah. But here's the...

Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine researchers have discovered that adult animals with hearing loss actually re-route the sense of touch into the hearing parts...

Findings: A study looking at the electronic medical records of 100 consecutive people who came to the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary for hearing tests that revealed...

A new study has successfully isolated human auditory stem cells from fetal cochleae Sheffield, England - March 23, 2009 - Deafness affects more than 250 million people...

Surgery at Loyola Makes it Possible to Attach Prosthesis with Magnets Maywood - To look at Matthew Houdek, you could never tell he was born with virtually no left ear. A...

New Haven, Conn. - Yale researchers investigating the genetic causes of blood pressure variation have identified a previously undescribed syndrome associated with seizures, a...

If the inner ear were a city, then stereocilia could be considered the flashy, high-rise buildings making up the skyline. Protruding from the tops of sensory cells, called hair...

Researchers at the University of Leeds have made a significant step forward in understanding the causes of some forms of deafness. The Leeds team has discovered that the myosin...

When you play a piano, the strings may supply the musical tones, but if it weren't for the wooden hammers striking the strings, you wouldn't hear a note. New research from the...

Anyone who has tried to carry on a conversation in a roomful of talkers knows how difficult it can be to concentrate on what one person is saying while tuning everyone else...