A Breakthrough Protocol for Generating Functional Human Auditory Neurons

The resulting SGN-like neurons matched the appearance, molecular structure, electrical behavior, and functional characteristics of SGN cells in vivo.

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Finding the Middle Ground

The key is to introduce myself as usual and let people get to know my personality first. If I miss something during the conversation, I simply let them know: “Hey, I have hearing loss, do you mind saying that again?”

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The ADA Has Teeth: Your Complaint Will Be Heard

A review of recent Department of Justice resolutions shows a clear trend: Communication access failures now outnumber physical accessibility complaints.

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How to Protect Your Hearing at Concerts Without Missing the Music

Wear well-fitted protection, create distance from loudspeakers, take quiet breaks, and limit additional noise afterward.

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Age-Related Hearing Loss Limits Cue Use in Noise

Our results demonstrate that age-related changes in use of acoustic cues may begin in middle age.

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When Hearing Support Becomes Part of Your Personal Style

Sponsored content: Created for women and men who care about personal style, H·earrings Cuffs combine hearing technology with the look and feel of a contemporary accessory.

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Hearing Loss Doesn’t Define Me

I don’t always think my teammates understand that I have hearing loss. It’s because hearing loss is invisible. But I live with it every moment.

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How Does Sound Hurt?

This control experiment shows that the hearing organ must be intact for sound to produce pain-related behavior. This may seem obvious, but it’s important to understand that the pain you experience does not come only from your eardrum or outer ear.

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A Poem About Living With Hearing Loss Since Birth

Partial silence/Hours in thought and talk/My dog listened and understood/Time in hours on the old back porch/I was in my own safe, social world.

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What the First Month After Cochlear Implant Activation Can Tell Us 

Patients who started with low wear time and increased it by six months did just as well at one year as those who wore their processor consistently from the start. Patients whose use declined did measurably worse. A slow start is not a verdict.

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