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By manipulating transcription factors—which promote the expression of certain genes and prevent the expression of others—a team of researchers led by Amrita Iyer and Andy Groves at Baylor are making progress in encouraging cells to regenerate hair cells in mature animals similarly to what happens during early development.
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The coalition letter, which includes AAA and ASHA as signatories, urges Congress to eliminate the entire expected 4.5% reduction to Medicare payment rates scheduled for January 1, 2023, citing the inflationary pressures the current economic climate is imposing on a myriad of practices across all affected provider types.
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Apple previously confirmed it will comply with EU rules to make a USB-C iPhone. Interestingly, the article states Apple's SVP of Worldwide Marketing Greg Joswiak says he "doesn't mind governments telling us what they want to accomplish," but offers the example that Apple's engineers made "an industry standard" hearing aid for iPhones after the US government made a regulation for mobile phones to meet a hearing aid compatibility that didn't work.
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- WHO lists hearing loss as a complication of Zika virus during pregnancy who․int
- Starkey Chief Technology Officer Achin Bhowmik, Ph.D., Named a 2022 Notable Leader in Health Care starkey․com
- Improving Child Development by Monitoring Noisy Day Cares | ASA Meeting Highlights newswise․com
- EUHA Extends Submissions Deadline for March Spring Digital Conference hearinghealthmatters․org
- HearingTracker Forum: OTC hearing aids forum․hearingtracker․com
Audio/Video
- Misophonia, Phonophobia, and Hyperacusis: Auditory Sensitivity Overlaps Anxiety and Mental Health youtube․com
- Dr. Cliff: BEST Receiver-in-Canal (RIC) Hearing Aids in 2023 youtube․com
Research
- Menstrual cycle found to have no effect on hearing tandfonline․com
- Clinical Trial: An Open-Label Study Evaluating Brexanolone in Adults With Tinnitus (Sage Therapeutics) clinicaltrials․gov
- Age-related changes in auditory temporal processing assessed using forward masking sciencedirect․com
- Establishment of Reference Values for Early Auditory Preverbal Skills of Children with Cochlear Implants journals․sagepub․com
- Sensory Inhibition and Speech Perception-in-Noise Performance in Children With Normal Hearing pubs․asha․org
- Prevalence of sensory impairments in home care and long-term care using interRAI data from across Canada bmcgeriatr․biomedcentral․com
- Speech comprehension in noise-considerations for ecologically valid assessment of communication skills ability with cochlear implants link․springer․com
- SpeedCAP: An Efficient Method for Estimating Neural Activation Patterns Using Electrically Evoked Compound Action-Potentials in Cochlear Implant Users journals․lww․com
- Evolution of the candidacy requirements and patient perioperative assessment protocols for cochlear implantation asa․scitation․org
- Temporal and regulatory dynamics of the inner ear transcriptome during development in mice nature․com