hearing loss
A Ménière’s drug shows hearing gains in a company’s new trial analysis
Sound Pharmaceuticals says a third of patients on its oral drug regained at least 10 dB of hearing, against about one in ten on…
Hearing-aid users died less often in a 64,000-person, four-country study
Across Australia, Iceland, the US and Norway, people with hearing loss who wore hearing aids had a 9 to 15% lower risk of death,…
One missing gene cost female mice their hearing early, not males
Without the energy-transport gene Slc16a5, female mice lost high-frequency hearing by 6 weeks while males kept theirs at 12, a UT Dallas team reports.
Hearing impairment tracked with dementia in a rural South African cohort
Among 567 older adults in Mpumalanga, 70% of those with dementia had impaired hearing against 36% of those with normal cognition, and the risk…
Hearing tests found four hearing-loss genes that diagnosis codes missed
A Vanderbilt team ran the same genetic search twice, once on billing codes for 61,469 people and once on audiograms from 16,057, and only…
How your ear turns air pressure into perception
From eardrum to a coiled piano keyboard inside the skull, with 15,000 hair cells that do not grow back, and a 2026 finding that…
Blocking one signal turns ear support cells into hair cells
Tel Aviv University and colleagues report in Science Advances that inhibiting the Notch pathway converts cochlear supporting cells into the sensory cells mammals cannot…