Grant for brain tumor and deafness research

... received a grant of over 39,000 from the charity deafness Research UK, to investigate the role of brain tumours causing deafness in children and adults and the development of ... of them can overwhelm a patient, often leading to deafness and eventually to death. Patients can suffer from ...

Deafness Research Foundation 50th Anniversary Celebration

... NEW YORK, April 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The deafness Research Foundation (DRF) is hosting a special ... commitment to future endeavors. The deafness Research Foundation is one of the largest and ... -- Collette Ramsey Baker, Founder of the deafness Research Foundation; -- Lucille B. Beck, PhD, ...

Deafness and seizures result when mysterious protein deleted in mice

... a particular protein in the brain have profound deafness and seizures. The finding suggests a pathway, they say, for exploring the hereditary causes of deafness and epilepsy in humans. More broadly, the ... other variations may be the underlying cause of deafness or epilepsy in humans, according to the ...

Stanford researcher's discovery of ion channel turns ear on its head

... in Otorhinolaryngology at Stanford. "Many forms of hearing loss and deafness are due to disturbances in the molecular biology of the hair cell," said ... fix it." The study was funded by grants from the National Institute on deafness and Other Communicative Disorders. Other scientists have attempted similar ...

Cochlear Americas Announces FDA Clearance of the Cochlear(TM) Baha(R) BP100 Sound Processor, the Industry's First Programmable Bone Conduction Hearing Solution

... solutions are a proven medical option for adults and children with conductive hearing loss, mixed hearing loss, and single-sided sensorineural deafness meeting the candidacy criteria. The Baha(R) system sends external sounds to the inner ear through the bone by passing the outer and middle ear. ...

Vaccine May Someday Thwart Ear Infections

... release. More than 80 percent of children experience at least one ear infection before age 3. More information The U.S. National Institute on deafness and Other Communication Disorders has more about ear infection . -- Robert Preidt SOURCE: ...

SoundBite(TM) Hearing System by Sonitus Medical Receives First Acceptance for Publication in Otology & Neurotology Journal

... in an upcoming issue of the esteemed Otology & Neurotology professional journal. The new bone conduction device is intended for single sided deafness (SSD), an acquired and usually permanent condition. Lead author of the article encompassing a preliminary evaluation of this novel device was ...

Breakthrough in combating the side effects of quinine

... this devastating disease. But the drug is associated with a long list of side effects which can range from sickness and headaches to blindness, deafness and in rare cases death and until now no one knew why. Scientists at The University of Nottingham have made a discovery that may explain many of ...

Video: New Biological Therapy Ilaris(R) Approved in US to Treat Children and Adults with CAPS, a Serious Life-Long Auto-Inflammatory Disease

... present from birth or infancy, and occur daily throughout patients' lives. Long-term consequences may be serious and potentially fatal, and include deafness and amyloidosis resulting in renal failure and early death. Ilaris, previously known as ACZ885, is a fully human monoclonal antibody that ...

Parents key in new measure to evaluate language in children with autism

... appears in the June 2009 issue of the Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research . The report was commissioned by the National Institute of deafness and Other Communication Disorders. "This is very exciting news," said UW professor Daniela O'Neill, a developmental psychologist who created the ...

TV Interferes With Infants' Language Development

... study appears in the June issue of the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine . More information The U.S. National Institute on deafness and Other Communication Disorders outlines speech and language milestones . -- Robert Preidt ...

It's How You Listen That Counts

... number of people affected by Noise Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL)," Currently NIHL affects over 26 million Americans (National Institute on deafness and Other Communication Disorders). Damage is caused by an overexposure to sounds in a sudden spurt or through long and/or repeated exposure to ...

Sonitus Medical Secures Strategic Investment and Technology Advancement Agreement From In-Q-Tel

... (ITM) hearing & communication platform is initially intended as a simple and non-invasive treatment for hearing disorders such as single sided deafness and tinnitus. Potential future applications include consumer and covert communications. Founded in June 2006, Sonitus Medical is headquartered in San ...

Pediatric Ear Infection Vaccine Shows Promise

... will have at least one ear infection by the time they're 3, according to the news release. More information The U.S. National Institute on deafness and Other Communication Disorders has more about ear infections . -- Robert Preidt SOURCE: ...

BTIG To Hold 7th Commissions for Charity Day

... Speaks - www.autismspeaks.org Catch 25 - www.joegirardi.com Capital For Kids - www.capitalforkids.org The deafness Research Foundation - www.drf.org The Eli Manning Pediatrics Fund G.O.A.L. (Giving Open Access to Learning) - ...

Viral Infection Might Trigger High Blood Pressure

... The effort to develop a CMV vaccine has concentrated on childbirth, since infection during pregnancy is the leading cause of mental retardation and deafness in children, Schleiss said. "Now there is an urgency to develop a vaccine for men as well as women," he said. More information The dangers of ...

BMJ Award for NHS Choices Guide to the Medical Science in the News

... by the British Medical Journal. Stories analysed on NHS Choices in the past week include claims that scientists had found a cure for deafness through stem cell research, http://www.nhs.uk/news/2009/04April/Pages/Stemcellsfordeafness.aspx , to research that claimed to have found evidence ...

Cochlear Americas Hosts Celebration 2009 for Cochlear Implant Recipients and Their Families

... in their environment and often to understand speech without reading lips. The cochlear implant is recognized as a standard treatment for profound deafness by the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Otolaryngology -- Head and Neck Surgery. For more information about cochlear ...

NIH will use $60 million in Recovery Act funds to support strategic autism research

... with participation from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute on Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the National Institute on deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), and the National Institute on ...

New stem cell therapy may lead to treatment for deafness

... Sheffield, England March 23, 2009 - deafness affects more than 250 million people worldwide. It typically involves the loss of sensory receptors, called hair cells, for their "tufts" of ...

A Pill to Prevent Hearing Loss?

... of the studies, said in a news release. About 26 million Americans have noise-induced hearing loss, according to the U.S. National Institute on deafness and Other Communication Disorders, which funded the two studies. Temporary noise-induced hearing loss typically goes away after a few hours or days ...

Vitamin supplements may protect against noise-induced hearing loss

... department of communicative disorders. About 26 million Americans have noise-induced hearing loss, according to the National Institute on deafness and Other Communication Disorders, the agency that funded the studies. In the first study, UF, University of Michigan and OtoMedicine scientists ...

New technique enables faster genetic diagnosis for hereditary diseases

... diagnosis With this new technology, the molecular diagnosis of genetic diseases − such as breast cancer, cystic fibrosis, and hereditary deafness − will be carried out much faster and more cost-effectively. It takes 3 to 6 months to receive a result with the techniques that are currently ...

Mutant Mouse Gene Offers Clues to Hearing Loss

... 70. Environmental causes can contribute to this hearing loss, but genetics also play a major role. More information The National Institute on deafness and Other Communication Disorders has more about hearing loss . -- Robert Preidt SOURCE: ...

Feinstein Institute: Researching a Family Tree of Autoimmune Disorders

... Amanda is now 62, almost two decades older than her cousin Mary. Elizabeth's grandmother was Mattie Majors. Amanda said that there is also a lot of deafness in the family, as well as asthma and thyroid disease. Her mother Elizabeth suffers from rheumatoid arthritis and had Graves' disease as a teenager. ...

Earthjustice/EIP Report: Dangerous Mercury Pollution From Unregulated Cement Kilns in U.S. About Twice as High as Levels Previously Projected by EPA

... child's brain is still developing and rapidly absorbing nutrients. Prenatal and infant mercury exposure can cause mental retardation, cerebral palsy, deafness and blindness. Even in low doses, mercury may affect a child's development, delaying walking and talking, shortening attention span and causing ...

Reading, math scores up for 4th and 8th graders, federal report shows

... infants (less than 5 pounds 8 ounces). Low birthweight infants are at increased risk for infant death and such lifelong disabilities as blindness, deafness and cerebral palsy. "This trend reflects an increase in the number of infants born prematurely, the largest category of low birthweight infants," ...

Brain's Olfactory Bulb Grows With Sense of Smell

... loss are limited, at present, this type of information is of high clinical significance." More information The U.S. National Institute on deafness and Other Communication Disorders has more about smell disorders . -- Robert Preidt ...

Study aims to improve sex education for deaf pupils

... sex education in a unique study that hopes to improve the way the subject is taught to deaf pupils. The University of Manchester's Audiology and deafness team is recruiting parents of both deaf and hearing primary school children for its research on children's sex and relationship education (SRE). ...

AAP Encourages Parents to Immunize Their Children

... damage. -- 6,100 people in the U.S. died of invasive pneumococcal disease each year. Many children developed long-term complications such as deafness or seizures. -- An estimated 20,000 infants born to infected mothers during a rubella epidemic in 1964-65 contracted congenital rubella syndrome, ...

£7.5m to transform patient care

... the Department of Health's National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) the BRUs will focus on 'translational' research into respiratory disease and deafness and hearing problems. They will be run by a partnership led by Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and the University of Nottingham and, for ...

Amateur Singers, Teachers Seldom Hear Sounds of Trouble

... Finally, those identifying themselves as gospel singers had worse scores than non-gospel singers. More information The National Institute on deafness and Other Communication Disorders has more about taking care of your voice . -- Kevin McKeever ...

Premature Birth Has Long-Lasting Effects

... according to Swamy. Sixty percent of babies born at 26 weeks of gestation have long-term disabilities, such as chronic lung disease, blindness, deafness and neurodevelopmental problems. For babies born at 31 weeks, that number drops to 30 percent, according to background information in the study. ...

Research to lead to brain tumor therapies

... the tumours are benign, they are frequent, can be inherited and come in numbers. The sheer number of them can overwhelm a patient, often leading to deafness and eventually death. Patients can suffer from 20 to 30 tumours at any one time, and the condition typically affects older children and adults. No ...

Zebrafish provide useful screening tool for genes, drugs that protect against hearing loss

... for genes and chemical compounds that protect against hearing loss from some medications. The study was funded in part by the National Institute on deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), one of the National Institutes of Health. The fishs lateral line contains sensory cells that are ...

This is your brain on jazz: researchers use MRI to study spontaneity, creativity

... published Feb. 27 in Public Library of Science (PLoS) ONE, the scientists from the Universitys School of Medicine and the National Institute on deafness and Other Communications Disorders describe their curiosity about the possible neurological underpinnings of the almost trance-like state jazz ...

In jazz improv, large portion of brain's prefrontal region 'takes 5' to let creativity flow

... But imaging researchers may now have a better picture of how the brain was helping to carry him there. Scientists funded by the National Institute on deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) have found that, when jazz musicians are engaged in the highly creative and spontaneous activity known as ...

Eyes a Window to Hearing Loss?

... is to see when a sound becomes detectable." About 28 million Americans have some degree of hearing loss, according to the National Institute on deafness and Other Communication Disorders. Approximately two to three out of every 1,000 children are born deaf or hard-of-hearing. Because hearing is so ...

Campaign Targets Noise-Induced Hearing Loss in Kids

... down the volume, and regular visits to an audiologist, hearing loss can be prevented." More information The U.S. National Institute on deafness and Other Communication Disorders has more about noise-induced hearing loss . -- Robert Preidt ...

NIH announces new initiative in epigenomics

... institutes including the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the National Institute on deafness and Other Communication Disorders, the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, the National Institute of Neurological ...