“These are promising results because they suggest that hearing aids can play a protective role in people’s health and prevent premature deaths,” explains Choi. Previous studies have shown that ...

Regeneron’s gene therapy for otoferlin-related hearing loss – a genetic cause of deafness – has restored hearing to normal levels in one profoundly deaf child within just 24 weeks.

More than one-third. Getting old. Hearing aid time. Just in time for National Deaf Awareness Month. Say what? To begin with, "hearing aid" is an ugly description for a small, curved hunk of often ...

Rangel, who is deaf, has been ... to speak and to hear with hearing aids. “I felt at that point that there was no need for me to go to church at all. Lots of deaf people continue to feel this ...

It doesn’t matter if you decide to give your child a cochlear (implant)” — a surgically implanted device that helps people hard of hearing or deaf perceive sound. Iowa School for the Deaf ...