Researchers have taken an important step toward what may become a new approach to restore hearing loss. In a new study, out today in the European Journal of Neuroscience, scientists have bee... Read more
Usher Syndrome is the leading cause of combined deafness and blindness in the world, affecting one of every 6,000 babies born. The genetic defect is even higher in Acadian people here in Lou... Read more
A new way to test anti-hearing-loss drugs in people could help land those medicines on pharmacy shelves sooner. University of Floridaresearchers have figured out the longstanding problem of... Read more
Hearing loss is a significant public health problem affecting almost 50 million people in the United States alone. Sensorineural hearing loss is the most common form and is caused by the los... Read more
A new study offers proof that stem cells can reconnect the inner ear to the brain More than 275 million people have moderate-to-profound hearing loss, and many of those cases are caused by a... Read more
With Sony’s Entertainment Access Glasses, the hearing impaired can see private closed captions projected right in front of their eyes in movie theaters We’re smack in the middle... Read more
The hardware for its prototypes costs somewhere around $75 per device. There is no dearth of impressive student projects here at the finals of Microsoft’s Imagine Cup in Sydney, but one of t... Read more
Too often, communication barriers exist between those who can hear and those who cannot. Sign language has helped bridge such gaps, but many people are still not fluent in its motions and ha... Read more
The health and wellness industry is in serious need of disruptive innovation Recently, we saw a huge reaction to the story of how a patent lawsuit was threatening to silence a little girl by... Read more
Bionic Ears – Introduction to State of the Art Hearing Aid Technology The exciting thing about being present year after year at one of the world’s largest and most multi-disciplinary hacker... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Some 600 cases of noise-induced hearing impairment are reported by the Norwegian petroleum industry every year. A new, intelligent earplug is now set to alleviate the pro... Read more