New nerve cell connections on sensory cells in mice could be at fault Conventional wisdom has long blamed age-related hearing loss almost entirely on the death of sensory hair cells in the inner ear, ...

It’s music to our ears. Approximately 11 million people in the US consider themselves deaf or severely hard of hearing. No medications have been approved to treat hereditary hearing loss, but cochlear ...

A research team led by Professor Choi Byung-yoon of the otolaryngology department at Bundang Seoul National University Hospital (new specialist) said that by measuring the degree of auditory nerve ...