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Last-ditch GOP effort to replace ACA: 5 things you need to know

Republican efforts in Congress to "repeal and replace" the federal Affordable Care Act are back from the dead. Again.

19 Sep 2017

Scientists take important step toward gene therapy for deaf patients

Scientists at Oregon State University have taken an important step toward gene therapy for deaf patients by developing a way to better study a large protein essential for hearing and finding a truncated version of it.

19 Sep 2017

Without price breaks, rural hospitals struggle to stock costly, lifesaving drugs

Hospital pharmacist Mandy Langston remembers when Lulabelle Berry arrived at Stone County Medical Center's emergency department last year.

18 Sep 2017

Prognosis communication may be helpful to older adults with disabilities

Prognosis is the term for the most likely outcome of a medical condition. When it comes to health care, talking about your prognosis can be difficult for you, your family/friends, and even your healthcare providers.

15 Sep 2017

Study highlights complexity of childhood cancer survivors’ medical needs

Survivors of childhood cancer may experience, on average, nearly twice as many chronic health condition by the age of 45, compared to the general population, according to a new study led by St Jude Children’s Research Hospital (USA) and published in The Lancet.

15 Sep 2017

IUPUI cell biologist receives $1.9 million grant to tackle age-related hearing loss

Cell biologist Benjamin J. Perrin of the School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis is advancing knowledge of age-related hearing loss with the goal of informing possible therapeutic cell-regeneration approaches to the often-debilitating problem.

14 Sep 2017

Research finds serious visual impairment among children with congenital Zika syndrome

Although one of the most serious consequences of the Zika virus (ZIKV) in infants is microcephaly, there is a broad collection of anomalies now known as congenital Zika syndrome (CZS). Some of the most serious are ophthalmologic, including macular scarring, retinal defects, low visual acuity, strabismus, and nystagmus.

13 Sep 2017

Insmed reports top-line data from Phase 3 study of new treatment in patients with NTM lung disease

Insmed Incorporated, a global biopharmaceutical company focused on the unmet needs of patients with rare diseases, today announced top-line data from its Phase 3 CONVERT study.

13 Sep 2017

Congress’ tight timetable complicates renewal of children’s health plan

A popular federal-state program that provides health coverage to millions of children in lower- and middle-class families is up for renewal Sept. 30.

8 Sep 2017

Insurance commissioners say help offered by Congress is not enough to save market

A key Senate committee Wednesday launched a set of hearings intended to lead to a short-term, bipartisan bill to shore up the troubled individual health insurance market, but a diverse group of state insurance commissioners united around some solutions that were not necessarily on the table.

8 Sep 2017

5 governors press Congress for fast bucks to secure Obamacare market in 2018

Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) has a problem — and not much time to solve it. The chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee wants to turn the page on the divisive health debate of this summer. He's been working with the panel's top Democrat, Patty Murray (D-Wash.), to craft a bipartisan bill aimed at shoring up the individual health insurance market.

7 Sep 2017

Lawmakers debate how much wiggle room to give states in health care

One of the few things that Republicans and Democrats broadly agree on is that states should have some flexibility to experiment with different ways to pay for and deliver health care.

7 Sep 2017

Salk professor awarded $950,000 NSF grant to explore how the brain processes complex sounds

Salk Associate Professor Tatyana Sharpee has been awarded a grant of approximately $950,000 over 4 years by the National Science Foundation to study how the brain processes complex sounds. This grant is part of a multi-national project together with groups in France and Israel.

7 Sep 2017

Four year $1.4 million Air Force grant supports WVU biologists to explore moths’ olfactory systems

As humans walk and talk, we sense our own movements or sounds. Yet, we can distinguish our actions from everything else in our environment that affects our senses.

7 Sep 2017

Mild pain killer blocks action of key protein required for hearing

A Rice University study has found that the aspirin-like drug diflunisal blocks the action of prestin, a key protein that is required for hearing.

5 Sep 2017

MIT study offers new approach to evaluate risk of preterm birth

Up to 18 percent of babies born worldwide arrive before they are full-term, defined as 37 weeks of gestation. About 1 million of those babies do not survive, and those who do can face developmental problems such as impaired vision or hearing, defects in the heart or lungs, or cognitive impairments.

5 Sep 2017

Scientists identify and target specific brain area related to ‘hearing voices’ in schizophrenia

For the first time, scientists have precisely identified and targeted an area of the brain which is involved in "hearing voices", experienced by many patients with schizophrenia.

5 Sep 2017

Psychotic experiences double risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors, study finds

Otherwise healthy people who experience hallucinations or delusions are more likely to have later suicidal thoughts or attempts, an international study has found.

30 Aug 2017

SLU-led project receives NIH funding for clinical trial on potential treatment for MDR-TB

Saint Louis University is leading a multi-national clinical trial of what could become a regimen for drug resistant tuberculosis (TB) that does not require injectable medications. The project is funded by a $6.4 million task order from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health.

26 Aug 2017

Pitch intonation in voices identified by special neurons

When a word is being emphasized upon during speech, we tend to raise our pitch. Studies of voice modulation and intonations have shown that the pitch can change the meaning of the word. So, it is not always what is said, but how it is said, find researchers of a new study appearing in the latest issue of Science.

24 Aug 2017

Hearing News and Research

Last-ditch GOP effort to replace ACA: 5 things you need to know

Scientists take important step toward gene therapy for deaf patients

Without price breaks, rural hospitals struggle to stock costly, lifesaving drugs

Prognosis communication may be helpful to older adults with disabilities

Study highlights complexity of childhood cancer survivors’ medical needs

IUPUI cell biologist receives $1.9 million grant to tackle age-related hearing loss

Research finds serious visual impairment among children with congenital Zika syndrome

Insmed reports top-line data from Phase 3 study of new treatment in patients with NTM lung disease

Congress’ tight timetable complicates renewal of children’s health plan

Insurance commissioners say help offered by Congress is not enough to save market

5 governors press Congress for fast bucks to secure Obamacare market in 2018

Lawmakers debate how much wiggle room to give states in health care

Salk professor awarded $950,000 NSF grant to explore how the brain processes complex sounds

Four year $1.4 million Air Force grant supports WVU biologists to explore moths’ olfactory systems

Mild pain killer blocks action of key protein required for hearing

MIT study offers new approach to evaluate risk of preterm birth

Scientists identify and target specific brain area related to ‘hearing voices’ in schizophrenia

Psychotic experiences double risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors, study finds

SLU-led project receives NIH funding for clinical trial on potential treatment for MDR-TB

Pitch intonation in voices identified by special neurons

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