Synchrotron Imaging Informs Customized Cochlear Implant Programming
The maps the research team created using the synchrotron could make a huge difference to the sound quality of cochlear implants.
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3D Printing Improves Cochlear Implants for Users
A team of engineers and clinicians have used 3D printing to create intricate replicas of human cochleae and combined it with machine learning to advance clinical predictions of ‘current spread’ inside the ear for cochlear implant (CI) patients. ‘Current spread’ or electrical stimulus spread, as it is also known, affects CI performance and leads to 'blurred' hearing for users, but no adequate testing models have existed for replicating the problem in human cochleae – until now.
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Researchers Design Tool to ‘Tune’ Cochlear Implants
A team of researchers from Western University, in collaboration with Uppsala University Hospital in Sweden, has designed a mathematical tool to help do just that -- program the implant with precision for each patient’s unique anatomy.
‘Molecular Handshake’ Between Tip Links in Ear Essential to Hearing, Balance
We hear sounds in part because tiny filaments inside our inner ears help convert voices, music, and noises into electrical signals that are sent to our brains for processing. Now, scientists have mapped and simulated those filaments at the atomic level, a discovery that shed lights on how the inner ear works and that could help researchers learn more about how and why people lose the ability to hear.
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COVID-19 May Damage Hearing Cell Function, Study Shows
At the end of two weeks, results showed that for the COVID-infected group, high-frequency pure-tone thresholds as well as the TEOAE amplitudes were significantly worse in the test group, indicating damage to outer ear hair cells.
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CILcare Partners with Vertidiag on Vestibular Solutions
Vertidiag is said to have developed a technical platform to induce controlled vestibular disorders and to measure their functional impacts. This platform uses behavioral pharmacology, along with a battery of cellular and molecular biology tools that support the understanding of the mechanisms of action of potential drug candidates.
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Frequency Therapeutics Announces Clinical Data from Auditory Drug
FX-322 is Frequency’s lead product candidate, designed to regenerate auditory sensory hair cells in the cochlea and improve hearing in patients with sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL).
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Cochlear Reveals Winners of Annual Scholarship Programs
Cochlear Limited (ASX: COH), a company that specializes in implantable hearing solutions,...
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Physician Reporting & Referrals in a Hearing Care Practice: An Interview with Sycle’s Ridge Sampson
Todays more competitive hearing care market makes it especially critical for practices to establish strong relationships with local physicians and heathcare providers.
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Cochlear Osia 2 System Receives FDA Clearance
Cochlear Limited (ASX: COH), an implantable hearing solutions company, announced the US Food and...
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Researchers Study Link Between Hair Cells and Genetic Factors in Zebrafish
Using zebrafish as a proxy, scientists have shed light on how changes to specific genes alter the coordinated direction that these cells are laid out.
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Frequency Therapeutics Announces Hearing Loss Drug Has FDA Fast-Track Designation
In a Phase 1/2 study, FX-322 demonstrated a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in key measures of hearing loss, including clarity of sound and word recognition, with no serious adverse events observed.
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October is ‘National Protect Your Hearing Month’
Nearly 24% of US adults ages 20 to 69 have features of their hearing tests in one or both ears that suggest hearing loss from loud noise, based on a 2017 study by researchers from the NIDCD and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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GN Hearing Announces Direct Streaming from Android to Hearing Devices
The new technology is based on a recent hearing aid specification, Audio Streaming for Hearing Aids (ASHA) on Bluetooth Low Energy Connection-Oriented Channels, which Google has developed in collaboration with GN Hearing and Cochlear.
Read MoreStrekin AG Secures Financing for Phase 3 Clinical Trial of Hearing Loss Drug
These funds will enable Strekin to conclude its ongoing Phase 3 clinical trial of STR001 in Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss, the RESTORE trial, and to prepare for a European filing.
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Researchers Find Proteins Associated with Hair Cell Formation
The proteins, described in a report published June 12 in “eLife,” may hold a key to future therapies to restore hearing in people with irreversible deafness. An article summarizing the research was published on the Johns Hopkins Medicine website.
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Purdue Researchers Find Noise-induced Trauma May Have Greater Impact on Hearing Loss
The researchers found that noise trauma causes substantially greater changes in neural processing of complex sounds compared with age-related metabolic loss, potentially explaining large differences in speech perception commonly seen between people with the same clinically defined degree of hearing loss based on an audiogram.
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Researchers Develop Virtual Model of Cochlea
Improved modeling for speech and music transduction could boost the performance of cochlear implants.
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