Promising drug proves ineffective as treatment for hearing loss
...eat hearing loss in patients with autoimmune inner ear disease (AIED), proved no more effective than pla... dose steroids, 63% responded to Prednisone in one ear while 37% responded in both ears, and the researchers observed that long-term Prednisone was well to...Standard treatment for rare form of deafness no more effective than placebo
...rs, for managing hearing loss in autoimmune inner ear disease (AIED), a progressive disease caused by antibodies or immune cells damaging the inner ear. The hearing loss occurs over a few months and is often accompanied by ringing, hissing or roaring sounds. AIED is rare and accounts for less than 1 pe...Hearing aid research gets federal boost
...l engineer, has used a tiny structure found in the ear of the fly as a model to develop the world's smallest directional microphones. "This important award is an indication of the level of research going on at Binghamton University," said Bahgat Sammakia, interim vice president for research. "Attracting ...Wanted: Help through the jungle of hospital care
... staff who provide support, education, and an open ear for any concerns and problems. But this scheme is only the first step to the wider use of patient liaison personnel within a multidisciplinary team. 2-3 people for a whole Trust are simply inadequate. Every single ward that has responsibility for ser...UB, military collaborate on design, testing of first drug to prevent noise-induced hearing loss
...ke and Henderson then set out to determine why the ear became more damage-resistant with so-called prophy... free-radical-destroying antioxidants in the inner ear in much the same way that inoculation with weakened disease-causing organisms primes the body's immu...UF research adds to evidence that unborn children hear 'melody' of speech
...m implanting a tiny electronic device in the inner ear of a fetal sheep that tapped into the signal the ear sends to the brain dovetail with what other researchers have concluded based on less invasive studi...Call for increase in flu vaccination among young children
...nths and two years of age, children with recurrent ear infection or upper respiratory-tract infection, and healthy children attending day-care centres or elementary school. Recent studies have suggested that paediatric influenza is a greater medical problem than usually thought because it can cause exces...Risk of infection higher for piercing ear cartilage than lobe piercing
...t), and several were cosmetically deformed. Upper ear cartilage piercing was more likely to result in ei...otential auricular chondritis (inflammation of the ear cartilage) and consider Pseudomonas a possible cause pending culture results," the authors conclude....Scientists raise caution about effects of HRT on hearing
...on a test aimed at measuring not just how well the ear actually detects a sound, but also how well the brain processes that information. A large portion of age-related hearing loss, called presbycusis, involves the brain's faltering ability to process information. It's not much different from the work yo...Vaccinating children protects adults as well
...tions. In its less severe forms it can also cause ear and throat infections. Pneumococcus bacteria can be found colonizing many people's noses and throats without causing infection. Why it suddenly invades the body and causes disease is unknown. A vaccine against pneumococcal disease has been availa...Tiny molecular motors shed light on cell function, say Stanford researchers
...e rigidity needed by the tiny sensors in the inner ear in order to respond to sound. They found that this motor creates the proper amount of tension in the sensors and anchors itself to maintain that tension. "Our general feeling is that tension-sensitive machines are at the heart of the dynamic city pla...Key to proper blood vessel growth in eye and ear discovered
...kably similar blood vessel problems in the eye and ear as seen in an earlier study of mice missing Norrin, which is faulty in Norrie [sic] disease. Both diseases are characterized by problems in blood vessel development in the retina; people with Norrie disease also go deaf over time. Because of the sim...Mild noise damage can be detected by cells in the inner ear
Damage to the inner ear as a result of environmental noise is a major caus... that the delicate sensory hair cells of the inner ear might react to being damaged by triggering calcium signals in surrounding tissues. The findings help...Human rights abuses common in southern Iraq between 1991 and 2003
...nshot wounds, kidnappings, being held hostage, and ear amputation, among others. Seventy percent of abuses were reputed to have occurred in homes. Baath party regime-affiliated groups were identified most often (95 percent) as the perpetrators of the abuses; 53 percent of the abuses occurred between 1991...High-tech 'phrenology' to identify children with fetal alcohol syndrome
...stablish. Those measurements include distance from ear to ear, facial arcs, and others that will result in a proportional scale. By creating the 3-D model, scientists can apply this assessment tool to children from various cultures. That is where the expertise of Richard Ward, Ph.D., professor of anthro...Supplement use growing among children and adolescents
...h is used to treat colds and upper respiratory and ear infections, has not been shown to be effective. The side effects of the supplement include rashes, hypersensitivity reactions and severe itching. "The bottom line is that parents should not equate 'natural' with 'safe,'" Kemper said. "Parents should...Electronic nose device proves effective for diagnosing pneumonia and sinusitis
...e and cirrhosis of the liver, otitis media (middle ear infections) in children, or even detection of chemicals and biological agents. Manufactured by Smiths Detection of Pasadena, CA, the machines cost approximately $8,000 USD, and still require approval from the federal Food and Drug Administration bef...Merging hearing technologies sounds good to researcher
...up sounds, then processors send the signals to the ear canal and through the auditory nerve to the brain ...r and transmitter are placed on the outside of the ear similar to a hearing aid. The microphone picks up sounds from the environment so the speech processo...American genetic abnormality also discovered in the Netherlands
...s in the throat, kidney abnormalities and external ear abnormalities. Kemperman discovered that the syndrome also causes inner ear abnormalities and that the hearing loss increases with age. The researcher also investigated the fir......HBROOK, IL, May 10, 2004) Children with recurrent ear infections may have an increased risk of developin...ts showed that children with a history of multiple ear infections were twice as likely to suffer from asthma than children with no prior history of ear inf...