Research
Study in mice: over 50 new hearing genes found
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- Published on 01 November 2017
Genetics
An international group of researchers has found 52 novel candidate genes for hearing loss in the mouse model. These findings show that there is an even greater number of genes involved than was previously suspected.
Prevalence of otitis media infections among indigenous Australians
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- Published on 27 October 2017
Report
A recent report as part of an Australian parliamentary inquiry into hearing health has revealed that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are at critical risk from otitis media infections.
Audiology delivers most cost-effective tinnitus therapies
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- Published on 16 October 2017
Study
A study funded by the British Tinnitus Association (BTA) into the healthcare cost of tinnitus management in the UK has calculated that the average cost of tinnitus treatment per patient per year is £717, equating to an NHS healthcare bill of £750 million per year.
Universal newborn hearing screening not enough to improve language skills
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- Published on 16 October 2017
NHS
Universal newborn hearing screening (NHS) is not sufficient to improve language skills in children who are deaf or hard-of-hearing, according to a new study carried out by researchers at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Ohio (USA).
New data on potential hearing loss from common recreational noise
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- Published on 06 October 2017
Noise
A prospective study carried out by researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas, USA has found no evidence of auditory nerve injury or permanent hearing difficulties in young adults after they attended a loud event.
Sensorion’s Oral SENS-401 prevented cisplatin-induced hearing loss
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- Published on 02 October 2017
Preclinical data
In regulatory news reported by Business Insider, Sensorion, a biotech company developing novel treatments for inner ear diseases, recently published findings showing that orally administered SENS-401 significantly prevented cisplatin-induced hearing loss in preclinical models.
Sudden sensorineural hearing loss in children and adolescents
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- Published on 26 September 2017
SSNHL
Researchers from the Seoul National University Hospital and Medical Center recently published an article with novel findings on sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) in the pediatric population.
Standardized questionnaire for tinnitus developed in Japanese
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- Published on 06 September 2017
Tinnitus
Researchers from the Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku, and from Machida Municipal Hospital, Machida, Tokyo, Japan have developed a Japanese version of the standardized tinnitus questionnaire for evaluating the clinical characteristics of patients.
Visual speech can benefit cochlear implant users
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- Published on 29 August 2017
CI
Researchers working with the University of Nottingham in the UK have found that lip-reading may have a beneficial effect on the brain and on a person’s ability to hear with a cochlear implant, reports MedicalXpress.
In vivo manipulation of inner ear gene expression in mice
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- Published on 14 August 2017
Genetics
An international team of researchers from several institutes and universities, led by a group at the Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine, Foundation for Advanced Biomedical Research in Padua, Italy, recently published findings of their study to control gene expression in mice in vivo using viral vectors.
