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Researchers Pinpoint Possible Way to Prevent Permanent Hearing Loss Caused by Common Childhood Cancer Drug (Yuganov Konstantin/shutterstock.com)

Researchers Pinpoint Possible Way to Prevent Permanent Hearing Loss Caused by Common Childhood Cancer Drug

Amit Bhavsar from University of Alberta and his colleagues have identified a receptor in cells that could be…

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Study Finds No Association Between COVID-19 Vaccines and Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss (LookerStudio/shutterstock.com)

Study Finds No Association Between COVID-19 Vaccines and Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss

Between December 14, 2020, and March 2, 2021, the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) received a total…

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Prevalence of Sensorineural Hearing Loss in Pediatric Patients with Sickle Cell Disease: A Meta-Analysis (April stock/shutterstock.com)

Prevalence of Sensorineural Hearing Loss in Pediatric Patients with Sickle Cell Disease: A Meta-Analysis

The pathophysiology of sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) in children with sickle cell disease (SCD) is thought to be…

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United Kingdom Sees a Surge In Ear Damage Cases Among COVID-19 Patients (Fagreia/shutterstock.com)

United Kingdom Sees a Surge In Ear Damage Cases Among COVID-19 Patients

An increasing number of people in the United Kingdom have developed tinnitus for the first time or have…

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Detecting Early Signs of Dementia Through Driving Behaviors (sukiyaki/shutterstock.com)

Detecting Early Signs of Dementia Through Driving Behaviors

Driving is a complex task, requiring both perceptual motor control skills and cognitive processing. Recent findings from a…

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Testing Your Knowledge of Auditory Disorders (Prostock-studio/shutterstock.com)

Testing Your Knowledge of Auditory Disorders

Do you remember your days back in graduate school learning about different auditory disorders? Do you want to…

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