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Study Shows New Genetic Cause of Hearing Loss
A gene called GAS2 plays a key role in normal hearing, and its absence causes severe hearing loss, according to a study led by researchers in Penn's Perelman School of Medicine.The researchers, whose findings are published online in Developmental Cell, d...
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Study Shows Link Between Hearing Loss, Tinnitus and COVID-19
Some viruses, such as measles, mumps and meningitis, can cause hearing difficulties, but what about SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19?In the first few months of the pandemic, a rapid systematic review of COVID-19 and hearing difficulties revealed a possib...
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Study Finds Younger Children More Vulnerable to Hearing Loss from Chemotherapy
A chemotherapy drug known to cause hearing loss in children is more likely to do so the earlier in life children receive it, new UBC research has found.Cisplatin is a life-saving treatment for many children with cancer, but the study published today in Cancer shows that...
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Combination of Sound and Silence May Help Prevent Permanent Hearing Loss
A combination of sound and silence may be a key in helping slow the progression of permanent hearing loss. Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center found intermittent broadband sound played over an extended period of time preserved sensory cells in the ear, while...
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Study Examines Link Between Hearing Loss, Tinnitus and Migraines
An independent association may exist between migraine with subjective hearing loss (HL) and tinnitus, while otologic migraine—defined as the effects of migraine on the ear—may be partly responsible for the association between HL, tinnitus, neck pain and migr...
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3 New Innovations Could Change Lives of Individuals with Hearing Loss
Although hearing loss is a very common sensory loss — affecting one-third of all American adults between the ages of 65 and 74 and nearly half of those older than 75 — solutions to hearing problems have been slow to materialize. Until recently, hearing...
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New Technique Allows Humans to Hear Ultrasonic Sources
Humans can observe what and where something happens around them with their hearing, as long as sound frequencies lie between 20 Hz and 2,000 Hz. Researchers at Aalto University have now developed a new audio technique that enables people to also hear ultrasonic sources that gener...
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Untreated Hearing Loss Tied to Poor Mobility
Hearing impairment is associated with significantly poorer physical function and faster declines in physical function among older people over time compared with those with normal hearing, according to a study published online June 25 in JAMA Network Open.Pablo Martinez-Amezc...
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Poor Hearing and Vision May Increase Risk of Dementia
Losing some hearing or eyesight is often a part of getting older, but a new study says losing function in both senses may put you at greater risk of dementia and cognitive decline years later. The research is published in the April 7, 2021, online issue of Neurology. The stu...
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Reducing Brain Inflammation Could Reduce Hearing Loss and Tinnitus Symptoms
Inflammation in a sound-processing region of the brain mediates ringing in the ears in mice that have noise-induced hearing loss, according to a study publishing June 18 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Shaowen Bao of the University of Arizona, and colleagues...
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