Here are the references for the Spring 2018 issue of Hearing Health magazine.
“You Are a Masterpiece,” page 6:
Dale, Alex. “ProQR Tackles Blindness Caused by a Rare Genetic Disease.” Labiotech, Feb. 13, 2018.
Globe Newswire. “Foundation Fighting Blindness Will Provide up to $7.5 Million in Funding to Develop ProQR’s Candidate QR-421a for Usher Syndrome Type 2A.” Feb. 12, 2018.
Giorgianni, Anthony. “Best and Worst Charities for Your Donations.” Consumer Reports, Dec. 9, 2017.
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD).
1960 National Temporal Bone Banks Program:
1970s Cochlear implant technology:
William Dobelle, University of Utah:
Deseret News (Utah). “William Dobelle, 62, Dies.” Oct. 16, 2004.
Richard A. Walloch, Oregon Health Sciences University:
Clark, Graeme. “Cochlear Implants: Fundamentals and Applications.” AIP Press/Springer-Verlag: New York, 2003.
John M. Fredrickson, University of Toronto:
Fredrickson, John M. Implantable Electromagnetic Hearing Aid. U.S. Patents, July 18, 1972.
Fredrickson, J.M.; Tomlinson, D.R.; Davis, E.R.; Odkvist, L.M. “Evaluation of an Electromagnetic Implantable Hearing Aid.” Canadian Journal of Otolaryngology, 1973.
Chasin, Marshall. “Bone Anchored and Middle Ear Implant Hearing Aids.” Trends in Amplification, June 2002.
William House:
Martin, Douglas. “Dr. William F. House, Inventor of Pioneering Ear-Implant Device, Dies at 89.” The New York Times, Dec. 15, 2012.
Stark, Rachel. “Dr. William House, Creator of Cochlear Implant, Continues Working at 88 to Give Gift of Hearing.” The Oregonian, June 1, 2012.
1977 Outer hair cell motility:
Brownell, William E. “Cochlear Transduction: an Integrative Model and Review.” Hearing Research, April 1982.
Brownell, William E. “Outer Hair Cell Electromotility and Otoacoustic Emissions.” Ear and Hearing, April 1990.
1985 Tinnitus Registry Database:
Meikle, Mary B.; Vernon, Jack; Johnson, Robert M. “The Perceived Severity of Tinnitus: Some Observations Concerning a Large Population of Tinnitus Clinic Patients.” Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, January 1985.
1987 Chickens can spontaneously regenerate hair cells:
Cotanche, Douglas A. “Regeneration of Hair Cell Stereociliary Bundles in the Chick Cochlea Following Severe Acoustic Trauma.” Hearing Research, February 1987.
Cruz, R.M.; Lambert, P.R.; Rubel, E.W. “Light Microscopic Evidence of Hair Cell Regeneration After Gentamicin Toxicity in Chick Cochlea.” Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, October 1987.
Late 1980s Hair cell research:
Balak, K.J.; Corwin, J.T.; Jones, J.E. “Regenerated Hair Cells Can Originate From Supporting Cell Progeny: Evidence From Phototoxicity and Laser Ablation Experiments in the Lateral Line System.” Journal of Neuroscience, August 1990.
Corwin, J.T.; Cotanche, D.A. “Regeneration of Sensory Hair Cells After Acoustic Trauma.” Science, June 24, 1988.
Cotanche, D.A.; Henson, M.M.; Henson Jr., O.W. “Contractile Proteins in the Hyaline Cells of the Chicken Cochlea.” Journal of Comparative Neurology, Oct. 15, 1992.
Girod, D.A.; Duckert, L.G.; Rubel, E.W. “Possible Precursors of Regenerated Hair Cells in the Avian Cochlea Following Acoustic Trauma.” Hearing Research, November 1989.
Rubel, Edwin W.; Oesterle, Elizabeth C.; Weisleder, Pedro. “Hair Cell Regeneration in the Avian Inner Ear.” Novartis Foundation Symposium, Ciba Foundation, 1991.
Ryals, B.M.; Rubel, E.W. “Hair Cell Regeneration After Acoustic Trauma in Adult Coturnix Quail.” Science, June 24, 1988.
Salvi, R.J.; Saunders, S.S.; Hashino, E.; Chen, L. “Discharge Patterns of Chicken Cochlear Ganglion Neurons Following Kanamycin-Induced Hair Cell Loss and Regeneration.” Journal of Comparative Physiology, March 1994.
Saunders, J.C.; Torsiglieri, A.J.; DeDio, R.M. “The Growth of Hearing Loss in Neonatal Chicks Exposed to Intense Pure Tones.” Hearing Research, September 1993.
Tsue, Terance T.; Oesterle, Elizabeth C.; Rubel, Edwin W. “Diffusible Factors Regulate Hair Cell Regeneration in the Avian Inner Ear.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 1994.
2013 Neonatal mice:
Cox, B.C.; Chai, R.; Lenoir, A.; Liu, Z.; Zhang, L.; Nguyen, D.H.; Chalasani, K.; Steigelman, K.A.; Fang, J.; Rubel, E.W.; Cheng, A.G.; Zuo, J. “Spontaneous Hair Cell Regeneration in the Neonatal Mouse Cochlea In Vivo.” Development, February 2014.
2016 Otitis media:
NIDCD. “Otitis Media.”
Santos-Cortez, Regie Lyn P., et al. “Rare A2ML1 Variants Confer Susceptibility to Otitis Media.” Nature Genetics, August 2015.
Santos-Cortez, Regie Lyn P., et al. “Middle Ear Microbiome Differences in Indigenous Filipinos With Chronic Otitis Media Due to a Duplication in the A2ML1 Gene.” Infectious Diseases of Poverty, Nov. 1, 2016.
“Mapping Our Impact,” page 14:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). “Hearing Loss in Children: Data and Statistics.” July 21, 2017.
Lin, Frank R. et al. “Hearing Loss Prevalence in the United States.” JAMA Internal Medicine. Nov. 14, 2011.
“Better Hearing Through the Ages,” page 18:
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). “Loud Noise Dangers.”
CDC. “EHDI Program Update: CDC’s Progress in Detecting Infant Hearing Loss.”
Chasin, Marshall. “The 80/90 Rule.” Hearing Health & Technology Matters, April 12, 2011.
Chou, R.; Dana, T.; Bougatsos, C., et al. “Screening for Hearing Loss in Adults Ages 50 Years and Older: A Review of the Evidence for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.” Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Evidence Synthesis, March 2011.
Johns Hopkins Medicine. “Hearing Loss Linked to Three-Fold Risk of Falling.” Feb. 27, 2012.
“How Modern Hearing Aids Make Hearing a Pleasant and Natural Experience Again,” page 22:
Lin, Frank R.; Ferrucci, Luigi. “Hearing Loss and Falls Among Older Adults in the United States.” Archives of Internal Medicine, Feb. 27, 2012.
World Health Organization. “Deafness and Hearing Loss.” March 2018.
“Try This at Home (or in a Restaurant),” page 28:
Schum, Donald J. “Intelligibility of Clear and Conversational Speech of Young and Elderly Talkers.” Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, 1996.
Schum, Donald J. “Making Speech More Distinct.” Audiology Online, March 10, 2014.
“Recent Research by Hearing Health Foundation Scientists, Explained,” page 39:
Chowdhury, Sarwat, et al. ““Phenotypic Optimization of Urea-Thiophene Carboxamides to Yield Potent, Well Tolerated, and Orally Active Protective Agents Against Aminoglycoside-Induced Hearing Loss.” Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Oct. 9, 2017.
Felix II, Richard A.; Gourevitch, Boris; Portfors, Christine V. “Subcortical Pathways: Toward a Better Understanding of Auditory Disorders.” Hearing Research, Jan. 31, 2018.
Jenkins Kimberly A.; Fodor, Calli; Presacco, Alessandro; Anderson, Samira. “Effects of Amplification on Neural Phase Locking, Amplitude, and Latency to a Speech Syllable.” Ear and Hearing, Dec. 27. 2017.
Mishra, Srikanta K.; Talmadge, Carrick L. "Sweep-tone Evoked Stimulus Frequency Otoacoustic Emissions in Humans: Development of a Noise-Rejection Algorithm and Normative Features." Hearing Research, February 2018.
Robinson, Erik. “Moving Toward a Future Free of Drug-Induced Hearing Loss.” Oregon Health & Science University News, March 6, 2018.
Steyger, Peter, et al. “Cellular Mechanisms of Ototoxicity.” Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, March 27, 2018.
“Promising Gene Therapy Results for Usher Syndrome,” page 44:
Kimberling, W.J., et al. “Frequency of Usher Syndrome in Two Pediatric Populations: Implications for Genetic Screening of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children.” Genetics in Medicine, August 2010.
Landegger, Lukas D.; Pan, Bifeng; Askew, Charles; Wassmer, Sarah J.; Gluck, Sarah D.; Galvin, Alice; Taylor, Ruth; Forge, Andrew; Stankovic, Konstantina M.; Holt, Jeffrey R.; Vandenberghe, Luk H. “A Synthetic AAV Vector Enables Safe and Efficient Gene Transfer to the Mammalian Inner Ear.” Nature Biotechnology, Feb. 6, 2017.
Lentz, Jennifer, and Keats, Bronya J.B. “Usher Syndrome Type I.” GeneReviews, University of Washington Press, Dec. 10, 1999; updated May 19, 2016.
Pan, Bifeng; Askew, Charles; Galvin, Alice; Heman-Ackah, Selena; Asai, Yukako; Indzhykulian, Artur A.; Jodelka, Francine M.; Hastings, Michelle L.; Lentz, Jennifer J.; Vandenberghe, Luk H.; Holt, Jeffrey R.; Géléoc, Gwenaëlle S. “Gene Therapy Restores Auditory and Vestibular Function in a Mouse Model of Usher Syndrome Type 1c.” Nature Biotechnology, Feb. 6, 2017.