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Vestibular Prosthesis To Help Restore Balance For Those With Meniere's Disease
Many disorders of the inner hear which affect both hearing and balance can be hugely debilitating and are currently largely incurable. Cochlear implants have been used for many years to replace lost hearing resulting from inner ear damage. However, to date, there has not been an analogous treatment for balance disorders resulting from inner ear disease. One potential new treatment is an implantable vestibular prosthesis which would directly activate the vestibular nerve by electrical stimulation... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - June 18, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Ear, Nose and Throat Source Type: news

Apple Committed to Captioning of iTunes Movies and TV Shows
read more (Source: National Association of the Deaf)
Source: National Association of the Deaf - June 17, 2013 Category: Audiology Authors: admin Source Type: news

Comprehensive Medicare Coverage of Audiology Services Legislation Introduced in the House of Representatives
Contact your Representative to Sign on as a Cosponsor! (Source: ASHA Action Alerts)
Source: ASHA Action Alerts - June 17, 2013 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Source Type: news

Genetic Mutation Offers Clue To Hearing Loss
A novel genetic mutation was first identified in 2010 as causing hearing loss in humans. Researchers have now discovered that this mutation induces malfunction of an inhibitor of an enzyme commonly found in our body that destroys proteins. Published in the American Journal of Pathology, this inhibitor is known scientifically as SERPINB6. Dr Justin Tan of the University of Melbourne and lead author of the study said individuals who lack both copies of this good gene were reported to lose their hearing from 20 years of age... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - June 14, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Hearing / Deafness Source Type: news

Not So Perfect Pitch
People who think they have perfect pitch may not be as in tune as they think, according to a new University of Chicago study in which people failed to notice a gradual change in pitch while listening to music. When tested afterward, people with perfect, or absolute pitch, thought notes made out of tune at the end of a song were in tune, while notes that were in tune at the beginning sounded out of tune. About one out of 10,000 people has absolute pitch, which means they can accurately identify a note by hearing it... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - June 14, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Hearing / Deafness Source Type: news

Hearing Loss Associated With Hospitalization, Poorer Self-Reported Health
"Hearing loss (HL) is a chronic condition that affects nearly 2 of every 3 adults aged 70 years or older in the United States. Hearing loss has broader implications for older adults, being independently associated with poorer cognitive and physical functioning. The association of HL with other health economic outcomes, such as health care use, is unstudied," writes Dane J. Genther, M.D., of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, and colleagues, in a Research Letter... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - June 13, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Hearing / Deafness Source Type: news

Two-Step Mechanism Of 'Inner Ear Tip Link Regrowth' Offers Potential For Interventions That Could Save Hearing
A team of NIH-supported researchers is the first to show, in mice, an unexpected two-step process that happens during the growth and regeneration of inner ear tip links. Tip links are extracellular tethers that link stereocilia, the tiny sensory projections on inner ear hair cells that convert sound into electrical signals, and play a key role in hearing. The discovery offers a possible mechanism for potential interventions that could preserve hearing in people whose hearing loss is caused by genetic disorders related to tip link dysfunction... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - June 13, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Hearing / Deafness Source Type: news

Researchers Discover Two-Step Mechanism of Inner Ear Tip Link Regrowth
Source: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders - Related MedlinePlus Pages: Ear Disorders, Hearing Disorders and Deafness (Source: MedlinePlus Health News)
Source: MedlinePlus Health News - June 13, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Whole exome sequencing identifies recessive gene as cause of deafness
Baylor College of Medicine researchers have identified a recessive gene mutation associated with deafness by whole exome sequencing. (Source: Baylor College of Medicine News)
Source: Baylor College of Medicine News - June 13, 2013 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

New Mechanism Of Inner-Ear Repair Discovered
A new mechanism of inner-ear repair has been discovered by researchers at the University of Kentucky. The team developed a two-step mechanism which allows molecular structures within the ear to rebuild themselves after being damaged by exposure to extremely loud noises - which can cause hearing loss. The World Health Organization currently estimates that there are over 360 million people in the world living with disabling hearing loss. The latest findings were published in the journal PLOS Biology... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - June 12, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Hearing / Deafness Source Type: news

Social Toll of Hearing Loss Could Be Cause for Alarm
Title: Social Toll of Hearing Loss Could Be Cause for AlarmCategory: Health NewsCreated: 6/11/2013 4:36:00 PMLast Editorial Review: 6/12/2013 12:00:00 AM (Source: MedicineNet Hearing General)
Source: MedicineNet Hearing General - June 12, 2013 Category: Audiology Source Type: news

Social Toll of Hearing Loss Could Be Cause for Alarm
Higher rates of hospitalization, illness and depression for seniors reported in study Source: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Pages: Hearing Disorders and Deafness, Seniors' Health (Source: MedlinePlus Health News)
Source: MedlinePlus Health News - June 11, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

One of a kind: The two-year-old who suffers from illness so rare it doesn't have a name
Alfie Jones, from Bridgend, Wales, baffled doctors with his unprecedented number of health problems, which include a hole in the heart, deafness and blindness. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - June 11, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Bionic eye promises vision for the blind
Monash University is preparing to launch technology that should allow blind users to make out objects and other peopleWorld-leading technology that could help restore vision to a large number of Australia's 45,000 blind people is set to emerge from a Melbourne university.The Monash Vision system, developed by a team of 60 at Monash University, allows blind users to make out objects and other people with the aid of a brain implant that connects wirelessly to a camera which can be housed in a pair of glasses or even on the end of the user's finger.The camera captures and sends images via a digital processor to a chip implant...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 7, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Oliver Milman Tags: News guardian.co.uk Medical research Technology Australia Science World news Source Type: news

#NADHandwave - June 2013
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” -- Harriet Tubman Juanita Candida "Candy" Johnson definitely has the passion to be part of a changing world. She dreams of the day when people who are not part of the deaf and hard of hearing community are nevertheless educated on how to work with deaf and hard of hearing people. Ignorance is one great barrier to making progress in the community. read more (Source: National Association of the Deaf)
Source: National Association of the Deaf - June 6, 2013 Category: Audiology Authors: admin Source Type: news

Acoustics
A hearing-impaired therapist teaches me to speak up, and to listen.read more (Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center)
Source: Psychology Today Anxiety Center - June 4, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Abby Sher Tags: Anxiety Therapy afterthought CBT childhood illness chunks deafness dr sinclair eating disorders exposure halloween candy hallowell center heaing impaired hearing hearing aids highlights magazine intake appointment irish b Source Type: news

We are only as Mad as the Other is Deaf
How to empathize and listen well.read more (Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center)
Source: Psychology Today Parenting Center - June 2, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Molly S. Castelloe, Ph.D. Tags: Child Development Creativity Evolutionary Psychology Parenting Relationships Adam Phillips anger anxiety attune aware bingo boundary caregiver certainty childhood cohesion deaf distress ego embarrassment emotion e Source Type: news

Youth Ambassador Program: Preliminary Round Begins this Summer!
Are you a young adult who is passionate about a social issue? Got innovative solutions? Then an exciting opportunity awaits you! The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) is pleased to announce that the preliminary round of the Youth Ambassador Program (YAP) competition will begin this summer! read more (Source: National Association of the Deaf)
Source: National Association of the Deaf - May 30, 2013 Category: Audiology Authors: Allie.Rice Source Type: news

Babies will be born deaf and blind if teenagers don't get MMR to prevent rubella timebomb, warns leading scientist
Professor Colin Blakemore, former chief executive of the Medical Research Council, is urging teenagers who missed their jabs in childhood to get vaccinated. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - May 30, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Babies will be born blind if teens don't get MMR jab, scientist warns
Failing to vaccinate teenagers with the MMR jab will lead to babies being born deaf and blind, a leading scientist has warned. (Source: Telegraph Health)
Source: Telegraph Health - May 30, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: deaf blind babies mmr jab Source Type: news

Giant Synapses Discovered In The Brain That Allow Us To Efficiently Process Auditory Information
Humans and most mammals can determine the spatial origin of sounds with remarkable acuity. We use this ability all the time - crossing the street; locating an invisible ringing cell phone in a cluttered bedroom. To accomplish this small daily miracle, the brain has developed a circuit that's rapid enough to detect the tiny lag that occurs between the moment the auditory information reaches one of our ears, and the moment it reaches the other. The mastermind of this circuit is the "Calyx of Held," the largest known synapse in the brain... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - May 29, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Hearing / Deafness Source Type: news

Novel Target For Developing Drugs That Block The Induction Of Tinnitus
An epilepsy drug shows promise in an animal model at preventing tinnitus from developing after exposure to loud noise, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. The findings, reported this week in the early online version of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reveal for the first time the reason the chronic and sometimes debilitating condition occurs... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - May 29, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Hearing / Deafness Source Type: news

The Language of Lyricals
“I love my language of lyricals, my second tongue. When others speak, I and millions of others like me hear only the contours of an elusive language to which, in the rapid course of conversation, we endeavor to give meaning.” Gerald Shea, who lost much of his hearing at age 4, writes about how he negotiated a high-powered world under unimaginably difficult circumstances.read more (Source: Psychology Today Work Center)
Source: Psychology Today Work Center - May 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Katherine Bouton Tags: Health Work andover audiologist boys boarding school chicken pox chip law columbia law school contours debevoise and plimpton gerald shea hearing test high frequency international lawyer memorial day memorial day weekend ra Source Type: news

A Different Way of Hearing: The Language of Lyricals
“I love my language of lyricals, my second tongue. When others speak, I and millions of others like me hear only the contours of an elusive language to which, in the rapid course of conversation, we endeavor to give meaning.” Gerald Shea, who lost much of his hearing at age 4, writes about how he negotiated a high-powered world under unimaginably difficult circumstances.read more (Source: Psychology Today Work Center)
Source: Psychology Today Work Center - May 28, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Katherine Bouton Tags: Health Work andover audiologist boys boarding school chicken pox chip law columbia law school contours debevoise and plimpton gerald shea hearing test high frequency international lawyer memorial day memorial day weekend ra Source Type: news

Audiologists Recommend Smart Phone Apps To Monitor Noise Levels
After studying noise in one French Quarter neighborhood of New Orleans to determine whether or not noise levels exceeded municipal ordinances, Annette Hurley, PhD, Assistant Professor of Audiology at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, and Eric Arriaga, a third-year LSUHSC doctor of audiology student, recommend that people use today's technology to protect their own hearing health. Their case study is published online in the current issue of Advance for Hearing Practice Management... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - May 28, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Hearing / Deafness Source Type: news

Health Tip: Devices to Help You Hear Better
Title: Health Tip: Devices to Help You Hear BetterCategory: Health NewsCreated: 5/27/2013 8:35:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 5/28/2013 12:00:00 AM (Source: MedicineNet Hearing General)
Source: MedicineNet Hearing General - May 28, 2013 Category: Audiology Source Type: news

Health Tip: Devices to Help You Hear Better
Gadgets for the phone, TV or doorbellSource: HealthDay Related MedlinePlus Pages: Hearing Aids, Hearing Disorders and Deafness (Source: MedlinePlus Health News)
Source: MedlinePlus Health News - May 27, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Please do try this at home
(Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center) After studying noise in one French Quarter neighborhood of New Orleans to determine whether or not noise levels exceeded municipal ordinances, Annette Hurley, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Audiology at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, and Eric Arriaga, a third-year LSUHSC doctor of audiology student, recommend that people use today's technology to protect their own hearing health. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - May 24, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Girl, 4, born with just one ear is denied hearing aid due to 'postcode lottery'
Ellie Sanders, from Truro, Cornwall, was born without a right ear. This means she needs a bone anchored hearing aid implant to allow her to hear clearly on her first day of school. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - May 23, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Blind People May Be Able To Locate Their 'Inner Bat'
New research from the University of Southampton has shown that blind and visually impaired people have the potential to use echolocation, similar to that used by bats and dolphins, to determine the location of an object. The study, which is published in the journal Hearing Research, examined how hearing, and particularly the hearing of echoes, could help blind people with spatial awareness and navigation... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - May 22, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Hearing / Deafness Source Type: news

Video: Say What!? The Invisible Hearing Aid
TUCSON, Ariz. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Hearing loss is the third most common physical condition after heart disease and arthritis. Hearing aids used to be the only option for those with moderate to severe hearing loss, but now an invisible device is giving patients a new choice. (Source: Medical Headlines From Ivanhoe.com)
Source: Medical Headlines From Ivanhoe.com - May 22, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Baby disabled after jaundice error
A baby was left deaf and blind because a trainee midwife did not recognise signs of jaundice within days of his birth, a health trust admits. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - May 20, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Purdue Innovation Could Help People With Severe Hearing Loss
Mel Chua, a Purdue University doctoral candidate in engineering education, received her current set of hearing aids in May 2012. She has severe hearing loss but has not worn hearing aids most of her adult life because they did not offer a significant improvement to her hearing. "I got my first hearing aids before I started kindergarten," she said. "I refused to wear them in fifth grade, and I more or less went without them except for brief interludes at ages 16 and 20. I tried them at those times and decided they weren't helping me... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - May 16, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Hearing / Deafness Source Type: news

Bernie's cancer taught me you must live life to the full and that means beating my deafness: Maureen Nolan reveals how her sister's fight inspired her to begin her own
As Bernie Nolan bravely confronts the final stages of breast cancer, her sister Maureen is determined to tackle her hearing problem which has left her nearly deaf. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - May 11, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Dealing with the Telephone!
Do we still need telephones? Its a mixed blessing, especially for those with hearing loss. read more (Source: Psychology Today Work Center)
Source: Psychology Today Work Center - May 8, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Katherine Bouton Tags: Health Work 3G bluetooth system caller id cellphone closest thing cochlear implant half the time hearing loss human voice immediacy iPhone negative attitude peers phonak hearing aid phone book road noise smartlink spe Source Type: news

Missing critical auditory alarms in aeronautics: evidence for inattentional deafness? - Dehais F, Causse M, Régis N, Menant E, Labedan P, Vachon F, Tremblay S.
The inability of pilots to detect unexpected changes in the environment (e.g., auditory alarms) is a critical problem in aeronautics. The lack of response to alarms is not thought to be a perceptual/attentional issue, but rather that pilots choose to ignor... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - May 7, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Distraction, Fatigue, Chronobiology, Vigilance, Workload Source Type: news

'Bionic' Ear Has Potential To Restore Or Enhance Human Hearing
Scientists at Princeton University used off-the-shelf printing tools to create a functional ear that can "hear" radio frequencies far beyond the range of normal human capability. The researchers' primary purpose was to explore an efficient and versatile means to merge electronics with tissue. The scientists used 3D printing of cells and nanoparticles followed by cell culture to combine a small coil antenna with cartilage, creating what they term a bionic ear... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - May 6, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Hearing / Deafness Source Type: news

How The Brain's Auditory Center Transmits Information For Decisions, Actions
When a pedestrian hears the screech of a car's brakes, she has to decide whether, and if so, how, to move in response. Is the action taking place blocks away, or 20 feet to the left? One of the truly primal mechanisms that we depend on every day of our lives - acting on the basis of information gathered by our sense of hearing - is yielding its secrets to modern neuroscience. A team of researchers from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) today publishes experimental results in the journal Nature which they describe as surprising... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - May 5, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Hearing / Deafness Source Type: news

Eight Ways to Manage Up Effectively
A recent Gallup poll of more one million employed U.S. workers showed that the No. 1 reason people quit their jobs is a bad boss or immediate supervisor.read more (Source: Psychology Today Work Center)
Source: Psychology Today Work Center - April 29, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Beverly D. Flaxington Tags: Behavioral Economics Happiness Self-Help Work boss bully communication style compuserve deaf ears decisions difficult difficult boss effective management gallup poll Job Jobs manager managing your boss one million poo Source Type: news

Arizona Haven for Deaf Faces Discrimination Charges
A subsidized housing complex in Arizona that was meant to foster a sense of community among residents who use sign language now faces discrimination charges. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - April 28, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: By FERNANDA SANTOS Tags: Housing and Urban Development Department Deafness Real Estate and Housing (Residential) Federal Aid (US) Discrimination Public and Subsidized Housing National Assn of the Deaf Disabilities Arizona Source Type: news

Patient Receives Innovative New Hearing Implant
A patient from Edinburgh has become the first person in the UK to receive a breakthrough procedure to treat hearing loss. NHS Lothian carried out the first specialist Bonebridge implant in December 2012 at the Lauriston Building in Edinburgh. The innovative device is fitted within the ear and is used when a patient is unable to have a conventional external hearing aid fitted. Alex Bennett, an Ear, Nose and Throat Consultant for NHS Lothian performed the procedure on patient, Brian Hogg... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - April 27, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Hearing / Deafness Source Type: news

Cinema Subtitle System for the Hard of Hearing
Inventor, Jack Ezra, of 3D Experience, UK, has come up with a Cinema Subtitle System for the hard of hearing which is invisible to the general audience. (Source: Disabled World)
Source: Disabled World - April 25, 2013 Category: Disability Tags: Disability Product Investors Source Type: news

#NADHandwave - May 2013
You can find the video description and transcript on the YouTube page. In any gathering you attend, you will either see a wave of hands in the air from the audience or hear applause when time comes to recognize someone. The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) is excited to announce a new initiative to recognize people in the deaf and hard of hearing community by awarding them a #NADHandwave. read more (Source: National Association of the Deaf)
Source: National Association of the Deaf - April 25, 2013 Category: Audiology Authors: admin Source Type: news

Rib used to create ear for deaf man
A piece of rib and a bone conduction implant are used in a pioneering operation to treat an Edinburgh man's hereditary deafness. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - April 25, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Kenya: Deaf Society Slams Stigma
[The Star]THE Kenya Society for the deaf has decried the increasing discrimination of children with disabilities. Society chairman Francis Nganga said that looking down upon people with various challenges leads to stigmatisation. Speaking in Kisumu on the sidelines of the Kenya special schools sports association at Kisumu Polytechnic, Nganga said people with challenges also need to access services just like everybody. He has called on parents not to confine children who have hearing impairments since the government (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 19, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news