An experimental hearing loss drug that’s delivered directly into the eardrum moved to the next phase of drug testing, reported Massachusetts-based Frequency Therapeutics, the drug’s developer, in late 2019. The experimental drug is delivered viainjection into the middle ear, whereit is absorbed by the inner ear. The drug, dubbed FX-322, is given via injection into the… Read More »
Lucy Brown is an active 12-year-old who has just been accepted into her middle school’s medical program and dreams of one day becoming an ear, nose and throat doctor as well as a member of the Olympic gymnastics team. Perhaps the only difference between her and the other Level 8 USA gymnasts she competes against… Read More »
The first sign of illness in my Uncle Bob was his swollen, curled hands—the mark of rheumatoid arthritis. Then, not long after, type 2 diabetes. For a veteran and longtime auto mechanic, these illnesses in and of themselves were life changing. His wife and two children rallied around him, endlessly patient with a man who was… Read More »
Utah grandfather who’s played Santa Claus for 40 years can finally hear children’s Christmas wishes again after getting life-changing ear implant Mark Woodmansee of Provo, Utah, started playing Santa at 16 Almost 20 years ago, while dating his wife, she noticed he didn’t always hear her By 2016, Woodmansee was completely deaf in his left… Read More »
A cochlear dead zone is a rare type of hearing loss that results in a severe hearing loss in a narrow range of sound, because the corresponding sensory cells have been destroyed. The ear can be a delicate mechanism. Even though the most fragile parts are tucked deep inside your skull, your ear is still… Read More »
Over the past few years, as he headed into his mid-60s, Ted Tassos was starting to worry. Words didn’t make as much sense to him as they had in the past. “I could hear people’s voices, but could make out less and less of what they were saying,” says Tassos, of New Kensington, Penn. He wondered… Read More »