Research
Aging and difficulty filtering out background noise
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- Published on 25 July 2017
Noise
A new study published in the journal Nature Communications has shown that aging affects neural modulation in the listening brain, explaining decreased speech comprehension.
New study links untreated hearing loss to dementia
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- Published on 24 July 2017
Research
Addressing hearing loss can play a major role in preventing dementia, a new international study published in The Lancet has found.
Understanding the potential of human echolocation
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- Published on 15 July 2017
Study
The results of research on human echolocation were recently presented at the third joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the European Acoustics Association, Acoustics ‘17, held in Boston, MA, USA in late June.
Assessing outcomes in mild-to-moderate congenital hearing loss
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- Published on 11 July 2017
Study
A team of researchers from various institutions including the University of Melbourne, Australia and the University of Auckland, New Zealand have carried out a comparative study to assess the benefits of early treatment for mild hearing loss.
Study on hearing loss among traffic police in India
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- Published on 04 July 2017
Traffic
Dayanand Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) and Christian Medical College, Ludhiana, Punjab intend to launch a research study investigating the ear health and hearing of traffic police in this large Indian city of nearly 3,000,000 people.
Best practices for cochlear implant hearing preservation
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- Published on 30 June 2017
CI
A group of researchers from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (USA) recently published the results of their study aimed at investigating short- and long-term rates of hearing preservation after cochlear implantation and at identifying factors that affect hearing preservation.
White noise after loud noise exposure to prevent hearing deficits
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- Published on 22 June 2017
Study
Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pennsylvania (USA) have shown in a mouse model that mild hearing loss as a result of brief noise exposure leads to pronounced reorganization of local excitatory and inhibitory circuits in the inferior colliculus.
Massachusetts Eye and Ear given a record grant to research hearing loss
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- Published on 20 June 2017
Donation
The Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary recently received a significant boost to expand its research into hearing loss: a USD 20 million gift from an anonymous donor.
Hormone replacement therapy and hearing loss
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- Published on 19 June 2017
HRT
A new study recently published in the journal Menopause reports evidence that older age at menopause and longer duration of postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy (HRT) are associated with a higher risk of hearing loss.
Handheld device to treat otitis media with effusion
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- Published on 16 June 2017
Innovation
Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) recently developed a novel handheld device, known as CLiKX, for the treatment of otitis media with effusion (OME), commonly also called “glue ear”, reports ScienceDaily.
