Five children who were born completely deaf have had some reversal of hearing loss after receiving a “groundbreaking” gene therapy. The clinical trial, which was co-led by Mass Eye and Ear in Boston ...

Consuming foods high in carotenoids appeared to be modestly linked to a reduced risk for pediatric hearing loss, according to a poster presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) 2025 Meeting.

Dr. Ana Anzola, an audiologist at Hearing Doctors Audiology and Balance Experts in Fairfax, promotes safe listening by educating families on “the dangers of hearing loss in children” who play video ...

Ten children who received DB-OTO for profound genetic hearing loss due to variants of the otoferlin gene showed notable improvements in hearing, according to initial results of the CHORD trial. The ...

A novel gene therapy designed to target a form of inherited deafness caused by mutations in the OTOF gene restored hearing function in all five children who were treated in both ears. The clinical ...

Children from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) families are more likely to have hearing loss compared to their ethnic majority peers, research led by The University of Queensland has found ...

There are few things more heartwarming than videos of children with deafness gaining the ability to hear, showing them happily turning their heads at the sound of their parents' voices and joyfully ...

A Tulsa lawmaker is pushing for a new law that would require public schools to begin conducting routine hearing tests for ...

An AI model using deep transfer learning—the most advanced form of machine learning—has predicted spoken language outcomes ...

Recent news stories reveal that hearing loss is a risk factor for dementia. As an autistic person, I have long been aware that differences in our sensory systems can be terribly disabling. Hearing is ...