Nearly two million people worldwide have lost the simple ability to feel steady. Now researchers have developed an ...

Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) is the most prevalent form of permanent hearing loss, affecting over 6% of the global ...

Andre Hoelz, the Mary and Charles Ferkel Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, learned ...

For me, the most fascinating part is the fact that such a group of animals managed to adapt to different habitats, which ...

Medically reviewed by William Truswell, MD Hearing loss is classified into three types: conductive, sensorineural, and mixed (when conductive and sensorineural hearing loss co-occur). Conductive ...

Discover why vision provides 80% of balance information and how eye exercises can solve stability issues better than balance training.

Researchers at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) and the Göttingen Cluster of Excellence "Multiscale Bioimaging" (MBExC) have shown how a minimal change in a single ion channel increases ...

Have you ever felt like your dog had a sixth sense? We know they have outstanding hearing (they’re at our door waiting when ...

Middle ear infection in children is much more common than in adults, in part because of how this part of the ear is designed.

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Ear pressure can result from sinus congestion, infections, or TMJ damage, among other conditions. It can also be caused by situational factors, such as changes in altitude or a foreign body stuck ...

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