This is the first time such results have been achieved in both children and adult patients born with a specific type of ...

Gene therapy has been effective for young children with genetic hearing loss, but this is the first study to show promising ...

Melanin can either protect or worsen hereditary hearing loss depending on genetic context, as reported by researchers from ...

A growing number of young adults are grappling with a health issue they once thought was decades away: hearing loss.

Elon Musk says Neuralink could help restore hearing, even for people deaf since birth. Three patients have received implants ...

A recent study of outcomes in infants and young deaf children with cochlear implants (implanted electronic hearing device), ...

In addition to a careful exam, hearing testing and an MRI of the brain is generally recommended. Early treatment with ...

DURHAM, N.C. (WNCN) — Dementia is a difficult diagnosis for patients and families, and according to the National Institutes ...

Elon Musk's Neuralink faces backlash from the deaf community after proposing brain implant technology to restore hearing, with deaf adults calling for inclusion in the research process.

I can blame my hearing loss on the Cream concert I attended years ago where I was just a few feet from the giant speaker blasting Eric Clapton’s guitar riffs — it took me days to recover.

TOPLINE: Audiometry-measured hearing loss in older adults accounted for up to 32% of incident dementia cases over 8 years in new research, significantly larger than previously reported estimates.

Overall, 1,947 participants (66.1%) had audiometric hearing loss and 1,097 people (37.2%) had self-reported hearing loss. Incident all-cause dementia was identified using a standardized algorithm.