In a nutshell Researchers successfully restored hearing in 10 deaf participants aged 18 months to 24 years using gene therapy ...

Andre Hoelz, the Mary and Charles Ferkel Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, learned ...

Learn how to prevent age-related hearing loss with practical steps like wearing ear protection, getting regular screenings, ...

Wearing ear protection at concerts and around loud sounds can prevent noise-induced hearing loss. Yearly hearing tests can catch it before it progresses.

Researchers tested a gene therapy that restored partial hearing in patients with OTOF gene mutations causing congenital ...

Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) is the most prevalent form of permanent hearing loss, affecting over 6% of the global ...

There’s no unilateral advice for how often you should clean your hearing aids, but most pros suggest doing so at least weekly ...

As noise becomes a daily health risk, hearing protection is emerging as the next wellness essential, fashionable, functional, ...

Melanin can either protect or worsen hereditary hearing loss depending on genetic context, as reported by researchers from ...

Tweens and teens are at high risk because they spend so much time using headphones or earbuds for gaming, listening to music ...

Loud sounds can damage the tiny hair cells in the inner ear that translate sound into electrical signals the brain can understand. Once those hairs are damaged, they won’t grow back, experts said.

A 5-year-old born with bilateral microtia had a priceless reaction when she received a new cochlear hearing implant, the ...