Accumulation of fat molecules is detrimental to the cell. Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), have made a breakthrough in ...

A 10-month-old Massachusetts girl can hear for the first time after receiving cochlear implant surgery in January.

The Carver's did as so many have done over recent decades. They turned to the talented doctors and researchers of the Cochlear Implant Program at University of Iowa Health Care in Iowa City.

Although others have proposed that OHC electromotility subserves cochlear amplification by acting as a "fluid pump", and evidence for this has been found using electrical stimulation of excised ...

The authors would like to thank the staff of the Mary Lyon Centre for animal husbandry, in particular Simona Oliveri, Elizabeth Joynson, Simon Gillard, Michelle Stewart and Heather Cater; Caroline ...

Hearing loss can affect these areas of development. When hearing aids don’t help enough, a surgically implanted hearing device called a cochlear implant may help children with severe hearing loss ...

If you wear cochlear implants, sound doesn’t enter through your ear, but rather from microphones above your ears. That means earbuds are useless and you have to resort to large and clumsy over ...