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Nov

New Study Investigates Auditory Conditions Linked to Vestibular Migraines

For patients with vestibular migraine (VM), the mean age of headache and vertigo onset is 25 and 39 years, respectively, according to a study published in the April issue of Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery.Neşe Çelebisoy, M.D., Ph.D., from Ege University...

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28

Nov

STUDY SHOWS SLEEP AND TINNITUS DIRECTLY CONNECTED

Around 15 percent of the world's population suffers from tinnitus, a condition which causes someone to hear a sound (such as ringing or buzzing) without any external source. It’s often associated with hearing loss.Not only can the condition be annoying...

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28

Nov

Understanding Underwater Hearing Capabilities

Millions of years ago, all mammals lived on land, but at some point, several species left land and evolved to a life in the sea: think of seals and whales, which today are adapted to life underwater.The rest who remained on land have similarly adapted to a life on land, and it ca...

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28

Nov

New Study Visualizes Gene Associated with Hearing Loss

Researchers from Uppsala University have been able to document and visualise hearing loss-associated genes in the human inner ear, in a unique collaboration study between otosurgeons and geneticists. The findings illustrate that discrete subcellular structures in the human organ...

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28

Nov

Everyday Loud Noises Can Cause Fluid Buildup in Ear

Exposure to loud noise, such as a firecracker or an ear-splitting concert, is the most common preventable cause of hearing loss. Research suggests that 12% or more of the world population is at risk for noise-induced loss of hearing.Loud sounds can cause a loss of auditory nerve...

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28

Nov

Connecting Hearing Loss and Cognitive Issues

Hearing loss doesn't just mean an older adult needs to turn up the TV. It’s been linked to a range of health problems, including dementia.The latest aging research not only shows the two are connected, it’s also leading scientists to believe that hearing loss m...

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28

Nov

More Trials Needed to Develop Hearing Loss Treatments

Over 5% of the world's population (430 million people) require rehabilitation to address their “disabling” hearing loss, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The organization predicts that nearly 2.5 billion people worldwide (1 in 4 people) will be...

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28

Nov

Scientists Studying Cadavers to Understand Coronavirus Link to Hearing Loss

In a narrow medical school hallway, Matt Stewart opened a large cabinet to reveal dozens of shelves stacked with wooden boxes and trays, some at least 100 years old.Stewart, tall and silver-haired, pulled out one of the trays and showed off its contents: Thin slices of human skul...

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28

Nov

New Gene Therapy on the Horizon for Hearing Loss

As lewd and crude and rude as it sounds, it is the general response for the person on the street, even if muttered underneath his or her breath, when dealing with someone—friend, family, co-worker, etc.—who suffers from mild to moderate hearing loss.Aside from some su...

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28

Nov

New COVID-19 Variant Could Cause Tinnitus

A new study by audiologists at the University of Manchester - supported by the NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) – has found that a significant number of patients reported a deterioration in their hearing when questioned eight weeks after discharge...

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