Background. There are about 1.6 billion GSM cellular phones in use throughout the world today. Numerous papers have reported various biological effects in humans exposed to electromagnetic fields ...

The advent of auditory prostheses has revolutionised the management of profound hearing loss. Cochlear implants (CIs) have long been established as an effective treatment for individuals with ...

The Audiology group in the UAB Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery includes three main components: diagnostic testing, hearing aid services, and implantable technologies. Impedance ...

Experts from the University of the Philippines Manila have developed the country’s first locally manufactured Automated ...

A child with profound genetic hearing loss was dosed with the investigational otoferlin gene therapy (DB-OTO), becoming the first patient dosed in a phase 1/2 trial evaluating the treatment, and ...

An auditory brainstem implant converts sound into an electrical signal and sends it to the brainstem, so your brain can create the sense of sound. An auditory brainstem implant (ABI) is a treatment ...

Nov. 30 (UPI) --People with persistent ringing in their ears, or tinnitus, are suffering from auditory nerve loss that goes undetected in standard hearing tests, a new U.S. study has found. The ...

Doctors may diagnose hearing loss using a range of techniques, such as audiometry tests, brainstem auditory evoked response tests, and otoacoustic emissions tests. Hearing loss can affect one or both ...

Increasing the expression of a protein responsible for maintaining neuron health led to better-than-normal processing of auditory information, according to a new study. The findings open the door to ...