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Researchers find possible treatment strategy for Meningitis without antibi
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Copenhagen [Denmark], October 19 (ANI): Despite widespread implementation of vaccines, bacterial meningitis is still associated with a high mortality rate and neurological consequences including hearing loss, focal neurological deficits and cognitive impairment, estimated to occur in close t
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Cochlear Foundation launches global partnership with Malala Fund to remove
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Mumbai [India], September 22 (ANI/PRNewswire): Malala Fund and hearing health not-for-profit Cochlear Foundation have partnered to raise awareness about the barriers keeping millions of young people with hearing loss from accessing a quality education.
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Delhi gets its first world-class Sound Centre for Hearing Care
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 6 (ANI/PNN): As per Industry statistics, nearly 470 million people, including children, require rehabilitation to address their 'disabling' hearing loss.
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Women with low bone density at increased risk of hearing loss: Study
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
London [UK], May 24 (ANI): Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital analyzed data from nearly 144,000 women who were followed for up to 34 years to find that risk of subsequent moderate or worse hearing loss was up to 40 per cent higher in study participants with osteoporosis or LBD.
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Researchers identify gene that causes canine hereditary deafness in puppie
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Helsinki [Finland], May 21 (ANI): Researchers at the University of Helsinki have been the first to determine the cause for the nonsyndromic early-onset hereditary canine hearing loss in Rottweilers. The gene defect was identified in a gene relevant to the sense of hearing. The study can also
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Dementia risk doubles if people have both vision, hearing loss: Study
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 8 (ANI): According to a new study, older adults who start losing both vision and hearing may be at an increased risk of developing dementia.
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Study reveals experimental hearing implant succeeds in registering brain w
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], March 30 (ANI): A team of researchers has succeeded for the first time in measuring brain waves directly via a cochlear implant. These brainwaves indicate in an objective way how good or bad a person's hearing is.
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Hearing loss strongly associated with COVID-19, finds study
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], March 27 (ANI): The findings of a novel study associates hearing loss and other auditory problems with COVID-19.
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Study suggests hearing loss strongly associated with COVID-19
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], March 22 (ANI): According to a new study, hearing loss and other auditory problems are strongly associated with COVID-19.
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NPPCD will target over 6 pc of India's population with disabling hearing l
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 3 (ANI): Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Harsh Vardhan on Wednesday said that National Programme for Prevention and Control of Deafness (NPPCD) will target over 6 percent of India's population with disabling hearing loss.
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No genetic evidence that hearing loss causes Alzheimer's disease
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 14 (ANI): New QIMR Berghofer and QUT research has found there is no strong genetic evidence that hearing loss causes Alzheimer's disease, despite both conditions sharing a significant number of genetic variants.
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Study suggests common inherited genetic variant is frequent cause of deafn
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 7 (ANI): A common inherited genetic variant is a frequent cause of deafness in adults, meaning that many thousands of people are potentially at risk, reveals recent research.
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