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Scaling the wall of deafness

Despite modern medicine, a baby born in 1000 American deaf. The number increases significantly with age, with more than 50% of seniors in the United States for a form of hearing impairment. But the time for hearing aids, and called on Aging in the laws, can be completed soon. A pioneering new study of a [...]

Cochlear implant surgery safer for seniors

The risk of complications related to anesthesia is not particularly high for older people with a cochlear implant for deafness good, according to a new report.
Cochlear implants are devices under the skull, directly translate sound into electrical impulses to the auditory nerve, and can contribute to man, when the conventional hearing aids do not help.
“Physicians [...]

Cochlear implant surgery is safe for the elderly

Unlike conventional medicine wisdom, a new study by NYU Langone Medical Center, researchers show that elderly patients in good health with a profound hearing impairment may be a surgery to get cochlear implants with a minimum of risk. “Due to concerns about the effects of general anesthesia, many older people with hearing loss are not [...]

Many children with hearing loss also have eye disorders

More than one fifth of children with a hearing impairment also Sensoineural eye diseases, according to a report in the February edition of Archives of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, one of the JAMA / Archives magazines. An estimated one to three per 1,000 children have some degree of hearing loss, which is the result of [...]

Type Of Supporting Cells Resistant To Notch Signaling Discovered

In a new study in the 20th January issue of Developmental Cell, House Ear Institute (HEI) Researchers have shown that by blocking a signal pathway of Notch, to the support of most cells in the ear Internal young mice, induced to change into hair cells.
“It is interesting that the new study showed that all the [...]