» Hooked On Headphones? Personal Listening Devices Can Harm Hearing
08/31/10 from Hearing/Deafness News From Medical News Today
Personal listening devices like iPods have become increasingly popular among young - and not-so-young - people in recent years. But music played through headphones too loud or too long might pose a significant risk to hearin..
» Early In Life Cell Signals That Tell Where Sensory Organs Will Form Inside The Ear Disappear, But Could Possibly Be Recharged To Restore Hearing Loss
08/31/10 from Hearing/Deafness News From Medical News Today
Researchers have tracked a cell-to-cell signaling pathway that designates the future location of the ear\'s sensory organs in embryonic mice. The scientists succeeded in activating this signal more widely across the embryonic tissue ..
» UK\'s First Cochlear Implant Operation To Give Sound In Both Ears
08/30/10 from Hearing/Deafness News From Medical News Today
The UK\'s first operation to fit a single cochlear implant capable of giving sound in both ears has taken place, thanks to the work of the South of England Cochlear Implant Centre (SOECIC), based at the University of Southampton. A cochlear ..
» Auditory Neurons Simply Process The First Strong Signal, Ignoring The Echoes
08/30/10 from Hearing/Deafness News From Medical News Today
Voices carry, reflect off objects and create echoes. Most people rarely hear the echoes; instead they only process the first sound received. For the hard of hearing, though, being in an acoustically challenging room can be a problem. For th..
» Seeking Quality Education For Deaf Blind Children In Today\'s Environment
08/28/10 from Hearing/Deafness News From Medical News Today
Deaf blind children can be isolated and disconnected from people and activities. Without individualized support, they cannot access visual and auditory information and often complete school unable to seek future education, employment, or in..
» Panasonic Digital Hearing Instruments Now Available In The U.S. Hearing Care Market
08/26/10 from Hearing/Deafness News From Medical News Today
Panasonic Corporation of North America, announced that Panasonic Hearing instruments have been delivered to the U.S. market. The company is debuting three types of digital hearing instruments, including a new form factor that resembles the ..
» Rolling Out The Best In Eye And Ear Care
08/26/10 from Hearing/Deafness News From Medical News Today
Prevent Blindness Mid-Atlantic, in partnership with the Richmond Eye and Ear Foundation and Stony Point Surgery Center, is pleased to roll out their mobile eye and ear screening unit, appropriately called WHEELS (Where Healthy Eyes and ..
» Seeking Quality Education For Deaf-Blind Children In Today\'s Environment
08/26/10 from Hearing/Deafness News From Medical News Today
Deaf-blind children can be isolated and disconnected from people and activities. Without individualized support, they cannot access visual and auditory information and often complete school unable to seek future education, employment, o..
» New Norwegian Earplug Solution To A Deafening Problem
08/21/10 from Hearing/Deafness News From Medical News Today
Some 600 cases of noise-induced hearing impairment are reported by the Norwegian petroleum industry every year. A new, intelligent earplug is now set to alleviate the problem. Norway\'s largest company, Statoil ASA, is taking the problem..
» Hearing Loss In U.S. Adolescents More Prevalent
08/18/10 from Hearing/Deafness News From Medical News Today
Hearing loss is now affecting nearly 20 percent of U.S. adolescents age 12-19, a rise of 5 percent over the last 15 years, according to a new Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) study co-led by Ron Eavey, M.D., direct..
» Digital Helpers For The Hearing Impaired
08/18/10 from Hearing/Deafness News From Medical News Today
Every fifth German is hearing impaired. In their private and in their work lives, they are restricted such as when making a telephone call. Researchers are now ready with a digital solution, one that can partially compensate for the hearing..
» First Test Of Sign Language By Cell Phone Performed By Deaf, Hard-Of-Hearing Students
08/18/10 from Hearing/Deafness News From Medical News Today
University of Washington engineers are developing the first device able to transmit American Sign Language over U.S. cellular networks. The tool is just completing its initial field test by participants in a UW summer program for deaf and h..
» Hearing Loss Among US Teenagers Increases By 31%
08/17/10 from Hearing/Deafness News From Medical News Today
Hearing loss among American teenagers rose by approximately 31% from 1988-1994 to 2005-2006, according to a study published in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association). In the year 2005-2006 one fifth of all US kids ha..
» Hope For A Cure For Tinnitus - \'Ringing In The Ears\'
08/12/10 from Hearing/Deafness News From Medical News Today
The NIH has granted a University of Texas at Dallas researcher and a university-affiliated biomedical firm $1.7 million to investigate whether nerve stimulation offers a long-term cure for tinnitus. Described as a ringing in the ear..
» Embracing The Challenges In NHS Audiology - Siemens Hearing Instruments Launches National Roadshow To Inform And Share Ideas To Enhance Productivity
08/05/10 from Hearing/Deafness News From Medical News Today
Siemens Hearing Instruments is running a series of \'Partner of Choice\' roadshows at venues across the UK to reinforce its commitment to supporting NHS audiology departments in the face of growing pressures to increase efficiency...
» Annual Meeting Supplement Now Available For Otolaryngology - Head And Neck Surgery
08/03/10 from Hearing/Deafness News From Medical News Today
The 2010 Annual Meeting & OTO EXPO of the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF), the largest meeting of ear, nose, and throat doctors in the world, will convene September 26-29, in ..
» Genetic Link Between Two Rare Diseases Established By Next Generation Sequencing
07/31/10 from Hearing/Deafness News From Medical News Today
Scientists have successfully used \"next generation sequencing\" to identify mutations that may cause a rare and mysterious genetic disorder...
» 30th Anniversary Of First Pediatric Cochlear Implant
07/22/10 from Hearing/Deafness News From Medical News Today
This July, House Ear Institute (HEI) celebrates the 30th Anniversary of the first pediatric cochlear implant. HEI received FDA approval for a clinical trial in July 1980 to implant three patients under the age of 18 with the single-chan..
» Scientific Review Of How Music Training Primes Nervous System And Boosts Learning
07/22/10 from Hearing/Deafness News From Medical News Today
Those ubiquitous wires connecting listeners to you-name-the-sounds from invisible MP3 players -- whether of Bach, Miles Davis or, more likely today, Lady Gaga -- only hint at music\'s effect on the soul throughout..
» Autism Detected In Unique Vocal Signature Of Baby Talk
07/21/10 from Hearing/Deafness News From Medical News Today
Using a new type of \"vocal signature\" technology that focuses on sound patterns rather than words in child vocalizations and baby talk, researchers in the US say they have proved in principle that it is possible to screen for autism spectr..