Grant for brain tumor and deafness research
Researchers at the Peninsula Medical School have 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 therapies using in vitro models. These tumours and a variety of other ...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 hair-like protrusions, and their associated neurons. The transplantation of stem cells that are capable of prod...Wound Healing Accelerated By Mutation In Deafness Gene
Dr. Stella Man, from the Institute of Cell and Molecular Sciences, Queen Mary's University, London, UK, says that a mutation in a gene that is linked to deafness// could have a major part to play in wound healing. Dr Man is to present these findings at the annual conference of the European Society ...Aspirin to Prevent Deafness caused by Antibiotics
A recent study has shown that aspirin when taken along with gentamycin can prevent the latter’s side effect- permanent hearing loss//. The results of the study are especially important in the developing countries where the amino glycosides family of antibiotics, which includes gentamycin, is co...Calls to combat deafness after chemotherapy
The Royal National Institute for Deaf people (RNID) has asked drug companies to find ways of reducing the occurrence of deafness among cancer patients who survive chemotherapy. // The Institute is looking mainly at the effects of the anti-tumor agent cisplatin, which has been successfully used...New Study May Help Prevent Hereditary Deafness
A new study by scientists in Japan may help to prevent a certain type of hereditary// deafness, reports UPI. Richard Smith, a research professor in otolaryngology at the University of Iowa, and scientists from Okayama University gave a genetically deafened mouse interfering RNA (Ribonucleic Ac...Cure For Deafness Leads Scientist To Find How Fishes Can Hear And Hum Sounds At Same Time
Researchers at Cornell University have discovered how a fish found along the West Coast can hum and hear outside // sounds at the same time!!. In an endeavor to find difficult cures for diseases can sometimes lead scientist to look the way animals of different kingdom function and in this c...Gene Therapy To Treat Deafness
Replacing lost sensory hair cells in the inner ear may restore partial hearing ability of the deaf mammals, say a recent study// published in Nature Medicine. Scientists are of the opinion that viral vector found in a developmental regulatory gene called Atoh1 can be used to encourage new ...Understanding Reasons for Tone deafness
Montreal: A new study has found that brains of people who are victims of tone-deafness do not have enough of white matter. // The study, available in the current issue of Brain, was conducted by a team of researchers from the Université de Montréal, the Montreal Neurological Institute and the New...Red Wine May Reduce The Risk Of Age Related Deafness
Researchers had claimed yesterday that age related deafness, and hearing loss caused by loud noise, may be reduced by the antioxidants in red wine, green tea and aspirin. // Explaining that moderate amounts of red wine or aspirin could help slow the development of age-related deafness, the re...Tone Deafness Explained, from the Harvard Health Letter
BOSTON, Aug. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Do people cringe when you sing? You've got company. But researchers have found that only 1 in 20 people truly has amusia, the technical term for tone deafness. Tests have shown that some people with bad singing voices hear music just fine. Amusics are...Pivotal Data Showed SYMBICORT(R) Improved Lung Function in Adults with COPD
...oster]. CHEST, Oct. 25- 30, 2008, Philadelphia. Poster #302. (6) SYMBICORT Prescribing Information. (7) Spasmodic Dysphonia. National Institute on deafness and Other Communication Disorders. Retrieved 2 October 2008. http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/voice/spasdysp.asp . (8) COPD Learn More Breathe Bette...Kevin McHale Instrumental in Forming the 'Help Me Hear Foundation'
...ever be able to obtain one. Dr. William House, the "true" inventor of the cochlear implant, also sits on the Board of Directors. While the burden of deafness on an individual of any age is substantial, the burden on infants and developing children is debilitating. The first three years of life are considere...UI researcher studies deafness in fruit flies, humans
University of Iowa Biological Sciences Professor Daniel F. Eberl and his colleagues at Duke University have uncovered genetic defects leading to deafness in fruit flies that may shed light on deafness in humans. Their research paper, "Myosin VIIA Defects, which Underlie the Usher 1B Syndrome in Hum...Diminuendo -- New mouse model for understanding cause of progressive hearing loss
...ave impaired hearing, according to estimates of the German Deaf Association (Deutscher Schwerhrigenbund). There are diverse causes for this, including deafness simply due to old age, hearing loss caused by infections and damage due to chronic noise. However, progressive hearing loss can also have genetic caus...Case Western Reserve University receives $1.66m grant from NIH for otoprotection research
...heterogeneous disorder characterized by congenital deafness and retinitis pigmentosa. It is the most common cause of deafness accompanied by blindness. *There are about 10-15,0... regeneration therapies have not really solved the deafness problem of ear diseases," said Zheng. "An alternat...New insights into progressive hearing loss
...oss. "We know of a number of genes involved in deafness in humans and mice but, to our great surprise, thi...he human mutations. Remarkably, then, cases of deafness in two different organisms are both tied to equiva...same genes have often been shown to be involved in deafness in both the mouse and humans. The research wa...Lehigh researcher awarded $1.8 million NIH grant
... grant from the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Institute on deafness and Other Communication Disorders for his research entitled "Efferent Inhib... the preliminary data he first collected under a grant he received from the deafness Research Foundation for his work on "Efferent Function in Sound Localizatio...Consumers desire more genetic testing, but not designer babies
...nhancements. The study found that the majority of respondents would elect for the screening of the following conditions: mental retardation (75%), deafness (54%), blindness (56%), heart disease (52%), and cancer (51%). The results indicate that less than half of population (49.3%) would choose testing fo...House Ear Institute, TGen and Belgian researchers identify gene in age-related hearing loss
... in presbycusis, but until now genetic research has lagged behind compared to other important diseases," said Guy Van Camp, director of the Hereditary deafness Laboratory and professor, University of Antwerp, Belgium. "The identification of GRM7 is a very exciting result, as it may provide insights in the de...Kidney function discovery sheds light on genetic complexity of disease
...t continues to occur, it is generally thought not to cause medical problems but previous cases have been linked to high blood pressure, kidney stones, deafness and problems in the brain. "Iminoglycinuria was observed to occur in families and the pattern of inheritance suggested that the cause might be due ...Genes that control cell death fingered in age-related hearing loss
...is, the team used two different methods to study gene expression, thanks to funding from the National Institute on Aging and the National Institute on deafness and Other Communication Disorders, both part of the National Institutes of Health. First, scientists put more than 300 genes through a broad gene-a...PTC Therapeutics Receives $2.6 Million in Government Grants
...Patients with NF2, a rare genetic disorder of the central nervous system, typically develop tumors that compress the auditory nerves, often leading to deafness and problems with balance. If unchecked, NF2-related tumors may eventually damage other cranial nerves and the brainstem, becoming life threatening. ...Otonomy Introduces Scientific Advisory Board
...ological Society and the NIH/National Institute of deafness and other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) where he...ll base. Dr. Harris is investigating the causes of deafness and other disorders such as acoustic neuromas, Men...the Advisory Council for the National Institute on deafness and Other Communication Disorders at the NIH, the ...Cochlear Americas Provides Support for Cochlear Implant Recipients to Pursue Higher Education
...unds 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 implants,...VIDEO from Medialink and Med-El: New Technology is Music to People's Ears
...rt some degree of hearing loss and three out of every 1000 children are born deaf or hard of hearing each year, according to the National Institute of deafness and Other Communication Disorders. For some, cochlear implants may be the only way to learn and interpret speech and other sounds. (See video from a...Midwest colleges strong contenders for NIH funds
...al and Skin Diseases (NIAMS established in 1986). National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR established in 1986). National Institute on deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCR established in 1988). National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI established in 1989). Natio...Oragene and DNA sequencing with ABI PRISM
...NA for sequencing applications such as HLA typing and prelingual deafness screening (ref. 1, 2) but they tend to have an appreciable failu...ations its clinical application to genetic testing in prelingual deafness screening for GJB2 mutations. Auris, Nasus, Larynx. 29: 231-239....