Salvaging The Hearing of Mice With Genetic Hearing Loss Brings Hope to People With Hearing Loss

Research teams at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital are using an innovative approach to the problem of genetic hearing loss. This new research uses a gene-editing method to salvage the hearing of mice with hereditary hearing loss. In a process that targets a bad copy of a gene while sparing the good gene,… Continue reading Salvaging The Hearing of Mice With Genetic Hearing Loss Brings Hope to People With Hearing Loss

The Importance of Child Hearing Screenings

If you are an adult with hearing loss, you have probably noticed some ways hearing loss has affected your life. For example, participating in social events may be more difficult, some tasks at your job may be affected, or maintaining personal friendships and relationships may be more complicated. Hearing loss can affect many aspects of… Continue reading The Importance of Child Hearing Screenings

New Study Reveals That Wearing a Hearing Aid Could Protect Your Brain

If you are new to research on age-related hearing loss, it may come as a surprise that this type of hearing loss has been linked to several other health conditions. For example, age-related hearing loss has been connected to depression, anxiety, and a greater risk of falls. For several years now, researchers and audiologists have… Continue reading New Study Reveals That Wearing a Hearing Aid Could Protect Your Brain

Study Reveals New Information about the Relationship between Antibiotics & Hearing Loss

Modern medicine is often referred to as a miracle, and that is frequently true. We can now treat diseases and conditions that were once fatal to many, and new advances are made every day in the field of medicine. Antibiotics, vaccines, and other life-saving drugs are changing the world as we know it. However, modern… Continue reading Study Reveals New Information about the Relationship between Antibiotics & Hearing Loss

Children and Balance

by: Melanie Dunne More than 1 in 20 (nearly 3.3 million) children between the ages of 3 and 17 have a dizziness or balance problem, according to an analysis of the first large-scale, nationally representative survey of these problems in U.S. children. Research was led by investigators at the National Institute on Deafness and Other… Continue reading Children and Balance

Your EAR is not just for hearing.

Your ears aren’t just for hearing;  they aid in balance as well.  Several structures in the inner ear, together called the vestibular system, send signals to the brain that help you orient yourself and maintain balance. Sensory information about motion, equilibrium, and spatial orientation is provided by the vestibular apparatus, which in each ear includes the… Continue reading Your EAR is not just for hearing.

WHAT DID YOU STICK UP THERE?

Picture this…..you are having a nice time coloring with your toddler, watching your little Picasso blossom before your eyes.  Suddenly you realize there is a piece of the red crayon missing.  Where did it go?  You search, you look in your child’s mouth, it is nowhere to be found.  Then you see it….or at least… Continue reading WHAT DID YOU STICK UP THERE?

Groundbreaking New Study Could Bring New Hope to Tinnitus Patients

If your parents ever told you to turn down the volume on the TV or radio to avoid “hurting” your ears, they were right. Exposure to loud noises – whether over time or due to a single, very loud noise – can indeed lead to hearing loss. In fact, according to surveys, it is estimated… Continue reading Groundbreaking New Study Could Bring New Hope to Tinnitus Patients