Research
Search for cellular causal link between coronavirus and hearing damage heads to the morgue
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- Published on 14 January 2022
Covid
Attempts to link the novel coronavirus to hearing problems has so far led to patchy data. But an ear surgeon leading a research team at Johns Hopkins University may be cutting his way through cadavers towards plausible cellular mechanisms.
Noise-induced hearing loss study advances diagnosis and treatment possibilities
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- Published on 20 December 2021
hearing damage
The mysteries of hidden hearing loss—undetectable damage caused by exposure to loud noise—are closer to being fathomed after a study in California revealed that exposure to 100 decibels or more leads to a buildup of inner ear fluid, potentially treatable with the type of saline used for sinus disease.
Predictions for 2031: Gaby Saunders: The double boon of AI and Covid for personalisation and communication
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- Published on 17 December 2021
Future of Audiology: 2031
Ten years from 2021, the trials of the coronavirus pandemic will have left useful models for audiology in communication and patient care, foretells our twelfth soothsaying hearing specialist of the 15 AWN consulted.
"Highly reliable" scan study shows most cochlear implant recipients develop new bone formation, which adversely affects residual hearing
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- Published on 10 December 2021
implants
Huge implications for the cochlear implant industry loom unavoidably following CT-scan confirmation by a Dutch research team of histopathologic evidence that cochlear implantation leads to new bone formation (NBF) and negatively impacts long-term hearing outcome.
Could teachers screen children for hearing loss?
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- Published on 07 December 2021
hearing screening
In resource-limited settings, “teachers can effectively identify children with hearing loss for early intervention”. This conclusion of a recently published study has drawn echoes of endorsement from a key opinion former in the audiology sphere.
Predictions for 2031: Thomas Behrens: All-sensing, emancipating devices
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- Published on 06 December 2021
Future of Audiology: 2031
Another of our 2031 predictions is a logical outflowing from years of lab work at Oticon, and this one comes from the principal shaper of the Danish brand's BrainHearing philosophy.
Dogs are mentally uplifting and cost effective in the lives of deaf people, pioneering study affirms
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- Published on 03 December 2021
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Having an assistance dog significantly improves the wellbeing, mental health, and independence of deaf people, reducing social isolation and fearfulness. Who would've thought it?
London research envisages a future cochlear implant that self-curls into individual cochlea shapes
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- Published on 01 December 2021
implants
The intriguing concept of a cochlear implant (CI) that self-shapes on insertion has moved an early step closer to materialisation, having successfully met simulation and analysis studies by its Imperial College proposers.
Predictions for 2031: Christophe Micheyl: Earbuds morning to night, all of us, all ages
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- Published on 26 November 2021
Future of Audiology: 2031
One of our French sources from the 15 worldwide audiology experts we asked for visions of audiology in the year 2031, Christophe Micheyl, predicts a society in which everyone wears earbuds morning to night.
Predictions for 2031: Prof. Helen Cullington: The instant and total hearing fix
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- Published on 23 November 2021
Future of Audiology: 2031
Imagine a world in which we no longer stress any distinction between normal-hearing persons and those with hearing loss; could this happen by 2031?
