Thank you for doing the most good for hearing loss through Hearing Health Foundation (HHF)’s Good to Hear giving campaign earlier this month.
A Home for Hearing Research
The need for the NIDCD was first championed by Geraldine Dietz Fox, a Philadelphia preschool teacher who, at 27, had developed a sensorineural hearing loss in her left ear from the mumps virus.
Sharper Than They Expected: A Tribute to Nansie Sharpless, Ph.D.
Nansie Sharpless, Ph.D., was a biochemist who lived with bilateral hearing loss. HHF has chosen to highlight her victories this Women’s History Month. Her motivation to push barriers strengthened the confidence society has in women in science today.
Hearing Restoration Project Scientific Director to Lead University’s Research Enterprise
Peter Barr-Gillespie, Ph.D., will be Oregon Health & Science University’s (OHSU) first chief research officer and executive vice president, effective Jan. 1, 2019. Barr-Gillespie has served as interim senior vice president for research at OHSU since 2017.
Comfortable
Being uncomfortable can be nerve-wracking, strange, and sometimes scary. For my brother, Alex, 14, being uncomfortable is all of these things. Born with a hearing loss, Alex has felt uncomfortable so many times in his life it’s impossible to count them all.
ChEARs to Our Hearing
To extend our celebration of World Hearing Day (March 3), Hearing Health Foundation (HHF) has partnered with the innovative Class I hearing aid manufacturer Eargo to raise funds for hearing loss research and awareness.
In Memoriam: Noel Cohen, M.D.
Hearing Health Foundation (HHF) shares with great sadness the passing of Board of Directors member Noel Cohen, M.D., who dedicated his career to helping people hear.
Ears On Fire
A noise injury worsens readily. For hyperacusis sufferers such as myself, quiet makes the condition better; noise makes it worse. Among sufferers this is indisputable, but medical practitioners bizarrely treat quiet as harmful.
First Study to Examine Cognitive Development in Deaf Babies Finds Differences Begin in Infancy
A noise injury worsens readily. For hyperacusis sufferers such as myself, quiet makes the condition better; noise makes it worse. Among sufferers this is indisputable, but medical practitioners bizarrely treat quiet as harmful.
Becoming a Champion
At this point I can say Ménière's disease and my initial negative experiences in undergraduate school have impacted my life for the better. Ménière's is a lonely condition but it’s forced me to become much more self-reliant.