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Hearing Loss Projected to be Commonplace Condition
Can you imagine a time when hearing loss would be commonplace? When it would be more prevalent than not in a social setting? When it would be the new normal? Given demographic trends, we may be rapidly approaching such a time. This is driven by three important factors — (1)...
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Hearing Loss May Be Early Symptom of Parkinson’s Disease
Queen Mary researchers funded by Bart's Charity used electronic primary healthcare records from over a million people living in East London between 1990 and 2018 to explore early symptoms and risk factors for Parkinson’s, according to an article on the ...
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Patients with POAG at a Higher Risk for Tinnitus
Tinnitus was significantly associated with pre-existing primary open-angle glaucoma, researchers reported in the Journal of Glaucoma. “The underlying mechanism relating glaucoma and tinnitus is not exactly clear,” Tung-Mei Kuang, MD, PhD, of the dep...
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Rare Cause Linked to Vertigo and Hearing Loss
Air bubbles trapped in a woman's inner ear caused her to develop severe dizziness, seemingly out of nowhere, and she required surgery to make the disorienting, spinning sensation go away. The 51-year-old woman initially went to the doctor after experiencing this strange spin...
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New Study Examines Therapy that Could Reverse Hearing Loss
The biotechnology company Frequency Therapeutics is seeking to reverse hearing loss — not with hearing aids or implants, but with a new kind of regenerative therapy. The company uses small molecules to program progenitor cells, a descendant of stem cells in the inner ear, t...
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Researchers Study Sudden Hearing Loss and COVID-19 Vaccines
No association was found between COVID-19 vaccination and the occurrence of sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL), according to a cross-sectional, population-based study published in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery. Previous research from Israel found ca...
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New Study Investigates Auditory Conditions Linked to Vestibular Migraines
For patients with vestibular migraine (VM), the mean age of headache and vertigo onset is 25 and 39 years, respectively, according to a study published in the April issue of Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery. Neşe Çelebisoy, M. D. , Ph. D. , from Ege University...
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STUDY SHOWS SLEEP AND TINNITUS DIRECTLY CONNECTED
Around 15 percent of the world's population suffers from tinnitus, a condition which causes someone to hear a sound (such as ringing or buzzing) without any external source. It’s often associated with hearing loss. Not only can the condition be annoying...
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Understanding Underwater Hearing Capabilities
Millions of years ago, all mammals lived on land, but at some point, several species left land and evolved to a life in the sea: think of seals and whales, which today are adapted to life underwater. The rest who remained on land have similarly adapted to a life on land, and it ca...
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New Study Visualizes Gene Associated with Hearing Loss
Researchers from Uppsala University have been able to document and visualise hearing loss-associated genes in the human inner ear, in a unique collaboration study between otosurgeons and geneticists. The findings illustrate that discrete subcellular structures in the human organ...
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