People who treat hearing loss with hearing aids or cochlear implants regain rich conversations, escape isolation, and may ...

We found that adults with hearing loss who used hearing aids or cochlear implants were more socially engaged and felt less ...

The researchers found that adults using hearing devices feel more socially connected and less limited in social situations.

Hearing loss is when you’re unable to partially or completely hear sound in one or both of your ears. It typically occurs gradually over time. NIDCD reports that about 25% of those between the ...

A cutting-edge gene therapy has significantly restored hearing in children and adults with congenital deafness, showing ...

Regeneron’s gene therapy for a profound form of deafness affecting children, DB-OTO, has shown the first signs that it can improve hearing in a clinical trial. The promising finding, in one ...

OTOF is mutated in a small percentage of cases of sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL), the most common form of deafness affecting up to two per 1,000 newborns.

The auditory system is the sensory system for hearing. It consists of the outer ear (the auricle and auditory canal), the middle ear (the tympanic membrane, malleus, incus and stapes), the inner ...