ORAN, Mo. -- For months Lorrie Duckworth has been debating whether the benefits of cochlear implants would be worth putting her 8-year-old hearing-impaired daughter, Torrie, through surgery. The ...

Cochlear implants have long represented a transformative intervention for individuals with severe sensorineural hearing loss by directly stimulating spiral ganglion neurons. Nonetheless, the ...

Jonathan Brilling has a high school memory that still makes him smile more than a decade later. At Riverside Military Academy in Gainesville, he was part of a competitive drill team that moved to ...

Deaf since birth, Caroline Yuk of Crystal Lake can't remember a time when she couldn't hear. “I was implanted when I was 2 years old,” says Yuk, referring to her cochlear implants, devices surgically ...

Youth with congenital deafness treated with gene therapy showed better progress on certain hearing measures than counterparts treated with cochlear implantation in a cohort study from China. Gene ...

An auditory brainstem implant converts sound into an electrical signal and sends it to the brainstem, so your brain can create the sense of sound. An auditory brainstem implant (ABI) is a treatment ...

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Leah and Sophie Salzberg, now 5 and 3, were born with a hearing loss disorder. Cochlear implants were "a light at the end of the tunnel" for their family Wendy Grossman Kantor is an award-winning ...

Jammu has added yet another milestone to its growing clinical capabilities, performing its first cochlear implant surgery—marking the start of much-needed specialised, advanced ENT and hearing ...