Research
Early review draws blank on COVID-19 effects on audio-vestibular system - more research needed
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- Published on 15 June 2020
COVID-19
Hurried UK research into potential long-term hearing health associations among COVID-19 cases has found only insignifant evidence. The Manchester University team investigating will carry out higher-quality studies in the near future.
How Ida Institute approaches hone person-centred care work...even online and in pandemics
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- Published on 27 May 2020
hearing care
For the Denmark-based guardians of person-centred care in audiology, COVID-19 lockdowns have been just as testing as for any organisation trying to fit the old world to the new. The head of the Ida Institute explains how adapting might even sharpen the skills of rapport.
Bone conduction walkie-talkie developed
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- Published on 19 March 2020
communications
A London start-up has used technology common to audiology to make a two-way bone conduction headband for hands-free communication in noisy environments such as construction sites.
The "chemical earmuffs" that could bring hearing protection in a pill
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- Published on 02 March 2020
drugs
A molecular route to a drug that provides hearing protection—"chemical earmuffs"—may have been discovered by a team of biologists at the University of Iowa (UIowa) and Washington University, St. Louis.
California research closing in on cochlear implant with pitch detection
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- Published on 01 March 2020
cochlear implants
Not detecting pitch is one of the great limitations of current cochlear implants (CIs), but research at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) is advancing towards a device that can send pitch data.
Beethoven finally gets his hearing back for the 9th!
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- Published on 05 February 2020
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In the year celebrating the 250th anniversary of Ludwig Van Beethoven's birth, the great Bonn composer's hearing has been semi-restored, at the expense perhaps of some of his kudos as a martyred great.
Is pupil dilation as reliable as standard hearing tests?
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- Published on 15 January 2020
testing
A test relying on tracking pupil dilation as evidence of the subject hearing a sound has been put through its paces by a team of neuroscientists in Oregon, USA, who got the idea 20 years back when studying owls.
Tinnitus and sudden deafness risk raised by non-migraine headaches
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- Published on 03 January 2020
headaches
Patients suffering non-migraine headache are at a significantly greater risk for tinnitus, sensorineural hearing impairment, and sudden deafness than those without chronic headache, recent research in Taiwan suggests.
US Cochlear implant test disparities risk excluding valid candidates
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- Published on 23 December 2019
implants
Clinical testing for cochlear implant (CI) candidacy in the US is inconsistent and lacks proper guidelines, possibly filtering out valid cases, a new study has revealed.
US and UK tinnitus forces team up for January meet
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- Published on 03 December 2019
tinnitus
The American Tinnitus Association (ATA) is to host a joint networking event with the British Tinnitus Association (BTA). The evening will take place on January 25, 2020 at the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO) Mid-Winter Meeting in San Jose, California.