License agreement signed to commercialize intelligent hearing aid
...stem is its ability to integrate signals from each ear so that a listener can focus on a desired voice while canceling out background noise. The concept for the intelligent hearing aid was developed by a team of 12 researchers at the universitys Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. Pro......have found that children who are hospitalized with ear infections are much less likely to need further su...onjunction with the insertion of tiny tubes in the ear drums - instead of just tube surgery. Ear infections are the most common reason for visits by childr...UCSF begins clinical trials for new bionic ear for profoundly deaf adults
...and is designed to bypass the damaged parts of the ear and directly stimulate the hearing nerve at very high speeds. The external part of the Clarion CII Bionic Ear system converts speech and sound in the environment into digital code sending radio waves back to the surgically implanted bionic ear. Ani...Study discovers a way to keep infants safe from second-hand smoke
...ssive, or second-hand, smoke have a higher risk of ear infections, asthma, bronchitis and pneumonia than children of non-smokers. In the United States, surveys show that almost 40 percent of children under five live with a smoker. Yet there have been few studies of ways to protect children from the har...Meningitis in infancy linked to developmental problems
...an increased risk of mild disorders such as middle ear disease, squint, and behavioural problems. The researchers also found that children who had meningitis as newborns had more health and development problems than those infected after one month of age. The rates of disability also varied widely in chil...Pain, price, insurance delays for new vaccines concern kids' doctors
...nts and children against meningitis, pneumonia and ear infections was introduced last year, the public's response was overwhelming: parents clamored to get their children vaccinated, as advertising and media coverage touted the shot's effectiveness. Within months, supplies of the vaccine had become scarc...Glue ear could be caused by gastric juices
...lts in stomach proteins accumulating in the middle ear via the Eustachian tube, suggest authors of a rese...rch letter in this weeks issue of THE LANCET. Glue ear is common among children after middle-ear infections (otitis media); effusion, produced by mucus cel...New findings about brain's 'compass' offer clues about Alzheimer's
...tion of brain tissue slightly above and behind the ear known as the medial superior temporal area (MST) acts much like a compass, instantly updating your mental image of your bodys movements through space. In new research, Duffy and graduate student Michael Froehler show that the MST acts not only as a...THE man who grew a human ear on the back of a mouse has made a breakthrough tha...surgeon Vacanti, who in 1997 famously grew a human ear from cartilage cells on the back of a mouse. The idea the pair hatched involves copying the blood ve...More evidence of possible link between hearing loss and CVD
... The cochlea is a spiral-shaped organ in the inner ear that contains inner and outer hair cells, the sens...hlear response. He says there is a chance that an ear with normal hearing may not produce a response, but the technology is sufficiently accurate and is u...UCLA study shows many parents not getting antibiotic message
... correctly perceived that parents of children with ear pain, or those parents who were very worried about their childs condition, were significantly more likely to expect antibiotics. Doctors prescribed antibiotics 65 percent of the time if they perceived that parents expected them, 47 percent of the tim...Study finds full breastfeeding for six months boosts baby's resistance to respiratory illnesses
..., wheezing, and recurrent (three or more) colds or ear infections. The results were adjusted for age, bir... of full breastfeeding while the risk of recurrent ear infections was minimized twofold. The study is the first to demonstrate that an additional two mont...Emory vaccine study in South Africa achieves significant reductions in pneumonia
...n to pneumonia, pneumococcus can cause meningitis, ear infections and sinusitis. "With this reduction in the incidence of pneumonia, we could potentially save over 500,000 lives each year in the developing world," said Dr. Klugman. "In addition, no vaccine has previously been documented to prevent pneu...Location of gene for ear wax could increase understanding of apocrine-gland development
...overy of the location for the gene which codes for ear wax could be a useful step towards a better unders...the apocrine glands. There are two forms of human ear wax, wet and dry, determined by one specific gene. Wet ear wax is common in whites and African Ameri...Heart disease is a pediatric problem: New guidelines point to lifestyle 'training' in childhood
...reases the risk of asthma, respiratory illness and ear infections in children. If all smoking were eliminated in the United States, it's estimated that there would be 22 percent fewer infants born with low birth weights, 33 percent less heart disease, 41 percent fewer childhood deaths between one mon...Ear thermometry not reliable for precise measurement of infants body temperature
...est that measuring infants body temperature in the ear is not a reliable means of assessing precise body temperature. Infrared ear thermometry is frequently used in childrenthis is a quick method of taking temperature, and the ear ...Antibiotics not always beneficial for childhood ear infections
...t antibiotics help only one in eight children with ear infections. Dr. J. Owen Hendley, professor of pe...l of Medicine that placebo-controlled trials found ear infections had gone away in one week in 81 percent of placebo recipients, as compared with 94 percen...Vaccine shortage study exposes nations 'patchwork' system
...as introduced. The bacteria also cause millions of ear infections, or otitis media, each year, though they're responsible for only a fraction of all ear infections. An FDA panel recently recommended that Prevnar be approved to prevent ear infections cau...High cost of life-saving childrens vaccine may be keeping some doctors from giving it
...fections each year, and untold millions of painful ear infections. That's why parents have clamored to ge... children under the age of 5 who have a history of ear infections, who attend group day care, or who are of African-American, Alaska Native or American Ind...Sensory cells for hearing and balance are fast-developing, UVA researchers find
... functional development of hair cells in the inner ear that mediate hearing and balance takes place over ...ential elements for development in the mouse inner ear appear between day 16 and day 17 of gestation, roughly equivalent to the late second trimester or ea...