A single shot of gene therapy restored hearing in people born deaf, with most showing improvement within weeks and some ...

Medically reviewed by William Truswell, MD Hearing loss is classified into three types: conductive, sensorineural, and mixed (when conductive and sensorineural hearing loss co-occur). Conductive ...

Gene therapy can improve hearing in children and adults with congenital deafness or severe hearing impairment, a new study ...

Results Supplementation studies using single micronutrients and vitamins to determine efficacy in reducing acute or chronic otitis media provided some evidence for an association of middle-ear ...

In both cases, a probe is placed in the ear canal to present a constant 226 Hz probe tone. Similar to tympanometry, this procedure measures changes in impedance within the middle ear system.

The first description of Neuroendocrine Adenoma of the Middle Ear (NAME) as pathology was made in 1976 by Hyams and Michaels. 3 NAME emerges from a neuroendocrine differentiation of middle ear ...

TITLE: Bilateral Middle Fossa Floor Meningiomas Invading the Middle Ear AUTHORS: Nuwan T. Meegalla, Malini Suresh Nair, Michele Marie Gandolfi KEYWORDS: Conductive Hearing Loss, Multifocal Meningioma, ...

There was dural thickening within the middle fossa adjacent to the previously described hyperostotic bony changes. A mastoidectomy and excision of mass revealed extensive adhesive tissue throughout ...

Scientists have discovered the first case of Down syndrome among Neanderthals after analyzing a fossil found in Spain, which ...

An estimated 5 percent of U.S. adults experience built-up, or impacted, ear wax every year, though it can be more common in older adults or those who wear hearing aids. Dr. Kim said that people ...

We have developed a multiwavelength, video-rate fluorescence-based imaging device to detect the underlying biochemical changes of middle ear pathology. Critically, our device design used the existing ...