Pulses of light restored hearing in gerbils. Could that lead to higher-tech cochlear implants?
Could light one day be used to restore hearing? To try to answer that question, a team of German bioengineers surgically installed coiled strips of optical fibers in the ears of deaf gerbils. Read the rest…
‘I was panicked’: Deaf patients struggle to get interpreters in medical emergencies
The chest pain was bad enough. Then John Paul Jebian asked staff at Baptist Hospital of Miami for an American Sign Language interpreter. They instead brought a video screen with an internet link to a remote interpreter to help him understand what the doctors and nurses were sayin
Hearing loss may affect children infected with Zika in the womb, study finds
As many as 6 percent of children born with Zika-induced microcephaly may have hearing loss, a new study from Brazil suggests. And the authors warn that other children who were infected with the virus in their mothers’ wombs may be born with or may develop hearing prob
