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Otosclerosis

Otosclerosis is an abnormal remodeling of bone near the middle ear that can cause hearing impairment. Otosclerosis usually affects the stapes bone, which rests its footplate exactly on the oval shaped membrane that covers the inner ear.

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Dysfunctional Gene Linked to Hearing Loss

Dysfunctional Gene Linked to Hearing Loss

Inherited MINAR2 gene mutations cause deafness, revealed researchers. The gene variation mostly affects the inner ear hair cells, which are critical to hearing. The authors believe the progressive nature of this hearing loss, in some affected ...

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Nanogel May Protect Cancer Kids From Hearing Loss

Nanogel May Protect Cancer Kids From Hearing Loss

Nanogel may protect patients using chemotherapy from hearing loss. Ninety percent of children survive cancer but around half will have permanent hearing due to toxicity of chemotherapy drugs. Efficacy of Nanogel in Preventing Hearing Loss ...

Ten Genes Linked to Hearing Loss Identified

Ten Genes Linked to Hearing Loss Identified

Ten new genes associated with hearing loss were discovered by King’s College London researchers. The findings, published today in American Journal of Human Genetics, cast doubt on the understanding that age-related hearing impairment ...

Scientists Discover Master Gene that Restores Hearing Loss

Scientists Discover Master Gene that Restores Hearing Loss

A single master gene that programs ear hair cells into outer or inner ones has been discovered. The new finding helps prevent the development of these cells from restoring hearing. "Our finding gives us the first clear cell switch to make one ...

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New Technology may Restore Age-Associated Hearing Loss

New Technology may Restore Age-Associated Hearing Loss

Major hurdle of age-related hearing loss may now be overcome through gene technology as per a study at the Northwestern University, published in Nature . Most of the outer hair cells are dead due to aging, cancer therapy drugs, antibiotics, ...

Loud Music may Increase Hearing Loss Risk

Loud Music may Increase Hearing Loss Risk

Due to exposure to loud music and sounds, more than 1 billion adults aged 12 to 35 years risk losing their hearing, warned the World Health Organization. The theme this year is "to hear for life, listen with care". "Millions of ...

Hearing Loss Declines Among Older American Women

Hearing Loss Declines Among Older American Women

American women who were 65 years and older were found to have much better hearing than their counterparts nearly a decade ago, reveals a recent study published in Aging and Health Research. In 2008, 16.3% of older adults in the United States ...

New Gene Therapy Might Reverse Hearing Loss

New Gene Therapy Might Reverse Hearing Loss

A first-of-its-kind gene therapy technique developed at Boston Children’s Hospital successfully replaced the mutated protein, stereocilin, in the inner ear and reversed the severe hearing loss in mice to normal levels of hearing. The findings were ...

Cochlear Implants may Consequently Drive Hearing Loss

Cochlear Implants may Consequently Drive Hearing Loss

Highlights: Clinical advancements have enabled the ready availability of cochlear implantation to aid hearing loss However, the technical advancements have also provided insights into the negative impacts of cochlear implants New bone ...

New Device to Treat Hearing Loss Discovered

New Device to Treat Hearing Loss Discovered

As a step toward an advanced artificial cochlea, researchers in ACS Nano reported about a conductive membrane, which translated sound waves into matching electrical signals when implanted inside a model ear, without requiring external power. ...

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Rare Genetic Hearing Loss Condition Linked With Infertility

Rare Genetic Hearing Loss Condition Linked With Infertility

A common link between Perrault syndrome, a rare genetic condition resulting in hearing loss in men and women, and early menopause or infertility in women has been identified by a team of researchers. The research led by the NHS Foundation Trust ...

Cancer Treating Drug Cisplatin Increases Hearing Loss Risk

Cancer Treating Drug Cisplatin Increases Hearing Loss Risk

The chemotherapy drug cisplatin is an effective treatment for children with cancer, but unfortunately it can also cause permanent hearing loss. A new study published in CANCER , a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society show that ...

New Online Tool for Hearing Loss Research Data Launched

New Online Tool for Hearing Loss Research Data Launched

A new online tool that enables easy access to genetic and other molecular data from hundreds of technical research studies involving hearing function and the ear promotes the medical discoveries to reverse hearing loss. The research portal called ...

Losartan Helps Reduce the Risk of Hearing Loss Among Vestibular Schwannoma Patients

Losartan Helps Reduce the Risk of Hearing Loss Among Vestibular Schwannoma Patients

Losartan, a popular medication used to treat hypertension, could improve hearing in patients who developed hearing loss due to vestibular schwannoma (VS). Researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Massachusetts Eye and Ear have ...

New Microplasma Treatment to Treat Ear Infections

New Microplasma Treatment to Treat Ear Infections

Ear infections are common among children, and the use of antibiotics is recommended in most cases. This leads to the problem of antibiotic resistance among bacterial pathogens. "Middle ear infections and the over-prescription of antibiotics to ...

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Impedance / Immittance Audiometry

Impedance / Immittance Audiometry

Impedance audiometry, or tympanometry, includes the measurement of air pressure in auditory canal and middle ear and identify lesions in auditory neural pathway.

Autoimmune Inner Ear Disease

Autoimmune Inner Ear Disease

Autoimmune inner ear disease is a condition that causes progressive deterioration of hearing and hearing loss. This is a serious condition that needs prompt medical attention.

Hearing aid is an electronic device that helps people with hearing loss to hear more and communicate more effectively. Only 1 out of 5 people benefit from a hearing aid.

Hearing Loss in Young Children and Early Intervention

Hearing Loss in Young Children and Early Intervention

Early identification of hearing loss in infants and young children and treating hearing impairment can go a long way to integrate them into the society of talking people.

Presbycusis (age related hearing loss) is the gradual loss of hearing that occurs as people get older. Presbycusis involves progressive sensorineural hearing loss.

Audiometry or the hearing test helps to determine the ability of a person to hear various sounds and consequently identify the location of damage in a person with diminished hearing sensitivity.

Anatomy of Ear and Hearing - Animation

Anatomy of Ear and Hearing - Animation

Ear converts sound waves into electrical impulses that are transmitted to the temporal lobe of the brain through the auditory nerve. It consists of outer, inner and middle sections.

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