PATIENT CARE
Deafness and Death
Several syndromes involving hearing loss and deafness are relatively rare, but taken together justify thorough genetic studies of hard-of-hearing and deaf children. Recognizing inherited conditions can avoid blunders in educational preparation for careers. At the extreme, however, realizing that children and students carry a genetic anomaly that can cause death is the most compelling reason for routine genetic analysis.
Research Roundup
How to Refer Patients Successfully to Mental Health Professionals
Some problems are outside your scope of practice, particularly when it comes to psychological issues. Tips on how to refer people to a mental health professional—without alienating them.
Special "How-to" Section
Capture More of Your Market Share and Increase Your Business, Increase Your Sales by an Average of 24%, Perform Real-Ear Measurements on Open-Fit Hearing Aids, and more...
Mind the Ports! The Effect of Severe Microphone Inlet Occlusion
Maintaining microphone ports, ensuring they are free from occlusion, is very important to the function of the hearing aid. Severe occlusion of the rear microphone port may produce values of greater than 15 dB of increased output for non-frontally arriving sound that is otherwise attenuated by the directional processing.
Events and Calendar
First Ida Institute Educational Seminar To Convene Sept 25-27
Denmark conference to take a relationship-centered approach to theme of "Defining Hearing."
9/18/2008
Products
Beltone Reach Features New Tinnitus Breaker
New component helps individuals cope with
irritating symptoms.
9/18/2008
Research
15 Years Later: Landmark Hearing Study Follows Up On Farm Youth
Federal grant to allow same group to be studied to see if hearing protection continued to adulthood, preserved hearing.
9/18/2008
News: Around The (Acoustic) Horn
Cochlear Repair After Stem Cell Transplant May Restore Hearing
Study shows some transplanted stem cells migrated to the damaged cochlea and repaired sensory hair cells and neurons.
9/11/2008
Older chemotherapy regimens of little benefit for mesothelioma
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Two different chemotherapy regimens failed to prolong survival or improve quality of life in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM), according to results of the MS01 trial reported in the May 17 issue of The Lancet.
5/15/2008 6:30:23 PM
Interleukin 12/23 monoclonal antibody useful for psoriasis
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Ustekinumab, a human monoclonal antibody directed against interleukin 12 and 23, is an effective treatment for moderate-to-severe psoriasis, according to the results of the PHOENIX 1 and 2 trials appearing in the May 17th issue of The Lancet.
5/15/2008 6:30:15 PM
Amyloid beta plasma levels fail to predict Alzheimer's disease
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Plasma levels of two amyloid beta proteins -- Abeta1-40 and Abeta1-42, both of which are important components of senile plaque -- do not appear to be useful biomarkers for development of Alzheimer's disease (AD), according to research published in the May 6th issue of Neurology.
5/15/2008 3:21:14 PM
Intervention curbs pediatric ICU bloodstream infections
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A systematic series of measures produced a significant reduction in rates of central line-associated bloodstream infections in a pediatric cardiac intensive care unit, according to researchers.
5/15/2008 3:13:14 PM
Nerve block useful for hot flushes and sleep trouble in breast cancer survivors
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A stellate-ganglion block can safely reduce hot flushes and improve nighttime sleep in survivors of breast cancer, according to results of a small pilot study reported in the May 15th online issue of The Lancet Oncology.
5/14/2008 6:30:07 PM
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