Digital Hearing Aids

Lip-Read Me Now, Hear Me Better Later

admin — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:00:00 +0000

Experience hearing a person’s voice allows us to more easily hear what they are saying. Now research by UC Riverside psychology Professor Lawrence D. Rosenblum and graduate students Rachel M. Miller and Kauyumari Sanchez has shown that experience seeing a person’s face also makes it easier to hear them. [click for full article]

Study Shows Isolation Of Stem Cells May Lead To A Treatment For Hearing Loss

admin — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Have you ever walked by someone listening to their i-Pod loud enough for you recognize the song? Studies have shown noise-induced hearing loss is going to become the next big epidemic affecting our younger generation though the effects won’t show until it is too late to treat. In addition to loud noise, certain cancer drugs or genetic factors can cause hearing loss in humans due to loss or faulty development of the sensory ‘microphones’ (hair cells) inside the ear - the cochlea. [click for full article]

Nutrients Might Prevent Hearing Loss, New Animal Study Suggests

admin — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:00:00 +0000

Soldiers exposed to the deafening din of battle have little defense against hearing loss, and are often reluctant to wear protective gear like ear plugs that could make them less able to react to danger. [click for full article]

A Thin Structure In The Inner Ear Responds To Different Frequencies, Suggests New Research - May Change Design Of Hearing Aids

admin — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:00:00 +0000

Modern hearing aids, though quite sophisticated, still do not faithfully reproduce sound as hearing people perceive it. New findings at the Weizmann Institute of Science shed light on a crucial mechanism for discerning different sound frequencies and thus may have implications for the design of better hearing aids.Research by Dr. [click for full article]

Anti-Epileptic Drugs Could Help Prevent And Treat Noise-Induced Hearing Loss

admin — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:00:00 +0000

On the battlefield, a soldier’s hearing can be permanently damaged in an instant by the boom of an explosion, and thousands of soldiers returning from Iraq have some permanent hearing loss. But what if soldiers could take a pill before going on duty that would prevent damage to hearing?Research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests a medicinal form of hearing protection may someday be a possibility. A group headed by Jianxin Bao, Ph.D. [click for full article]

Low-Pitch Treatment Alleviates Ringing Sound Of Tinnitus

admin — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 11:00:00 +0000

For those who pumped up the volume one too many times, UC Irvine researchers may have found a treatment for the hearing damage loud music can cause.Fan-Gang Zeng and colleagues have identified an effective way to treat the symptoms of tinnitus, a form of hearing damage typically marked by high-pitched ringing that torments more than 60 million Americans. [click for full article]