A single shot of gene therapy restored hearing in people born deaf, with most showing improvement within weeks and some ...

In people with more severe hearing loss, hyperbaric oxygen has been shown to improve outcomes compared to steroids alone.

Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) is the most prevalent form of permanent hearing loss, affecting over 6% of the global ...

For decades, hearing loss meant one thing: expensive, complicated hearing aids that required specialist appointments, ...

Treating idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss with injections of steroids directly into the ear appears to result in recovery of hearing that is not less than recovery obtained with the ...

Researchers have shown that bone marrow stem cells injected into a damaged inner ear can speed hearing recovery after partial hearing loss. Stem cell migration into the damaged area of the inner ...

Former Sentinel TV critic Noel Holston describes his hearing loss, recovery and insurance battles in the memoir 'Life After Deaf.' He shares what he has learned, and the first lesson is universal.

Age-related hearing loss is characterized by the progressive loss of the sensory hair cells of the inner ear, which are responsible for encoding sound into neural signals. 1,2 Unlike other cells ...

Globally, 34 million children have deafness or hearing loss, and genes are responsible for up to 60% of cases. ... "even a moderate hearing loss recovery in these kids is pretty astounding." ...

(HealthDay)—Patients with metabolic syndrome have a lower rate of recovery from sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) than those without, according to research published online Feb. 15 in ...

Within the group that received Vitamin E, there was at least a 75% hearing recovery in about 80% of the patients. In the control group, there was only about about a 45% recovery rate.” Yoachims and ...

Recovery prognosis poorer from SSNHL in patients with at least four factors of metabolic syndrome HealthDay News — Patients with metabolic syndrome have a lower rate of recovery from sudden ...