Jan. 9 -- FRIDAY, Jan. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Music therapy can aid speech development in hearing-impaired toddlers after they receive cochlear implants, researchers have found. Cochlear implants can ...

The American Academy of Pediatrics estimates three per 1,000 babies are born with moderate to profound hearing loss. But thanks to newborn hearing screenings, deaf and hard of hearing infants can be ...

Cochlear implant services provided by audiologists and Au.D. students in the clinics continue to expand thanks to recent grants from the Carls Foundation. Referrals for cochlear implant assessments, ...

Researchers have demonstrated a new way to restore lost hearing: with a cochlear implant that helps the auditory nerve regenerate by delivering gene therapy. Growth factor: The cochlear nerve ...

Latent remains unknown until the fire strikes the wood. In a country like India, people always need directing hands from a trusted source to carry on the righteous path. The healthcare industry has ...

Researchers have for the first time used electrical pulses delivered from a cochlear implant to deliver gene therapy, thereby successfully regrowing auditory nerves. Researchers have for the first ...

Youth with congenital deafness treated with gene therapy showed better progress on certain hearing measures than counterparts treated with cochlear implantation in a cohort study from China. Gene ...

The student is now in 10th grade, but her memories from kindergarten are still vivid. Back then, when this student would try to communicate using sign language, her teacher would clasp her hands ...

The video touched millions: An 8-month old boy smiles with unabashed adoration at his mother as he hears her voice, seemingly for the first time, thanks to a new cochlear implant.Posted on YouTube in ...

The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content. Bolstering cochlear implants with gene therapy may help people with varying degrees of deafness ...