Some babies born with congenital CMV who experience hearing loss may have been born with the hearing loss, while others may have developed it during childhood. When your baby is not feeling well or ...

Over the years, we've seen more than our fair share of attempts to reverse hearing loss. While many options are more focused on finding new types of gene therapy solutions to help individuals ...

Mutations in a gene known as CPD play a crucial role in a rare form of congenital hearing loss, an international team of researchers has discovered. Scientists from the University of Chicago, the ...

The main cause for congenital bilateral hearing loss is genetic, while the major cause of congenital unilateral hearing loss is cochlear nerve deficiency. A diagnosis of congenital hearing loss can be ...

Researchers have understood for decades that some forms of deafness are inherited, yet until now, few of those genetic clues have led the way to therapy. That is beginning to change. An international ...

Youth with congenital deafness treated with gene therapy showed better progress on certain hearing measures than counterparts treated with cochlear implantation in a cohort study from China. Gene ...

An analysis conducted in an integrated healthcare system provided insights into the long-term healthcare burden of cCMV ...

One of the great successes of public health in the US is the newborn screening program, which tests infants in every state for more than 30 serious but treatable congenital diseases. For the four ...

Your best friend’s voice on the phone. Crashing waves at the beach. Music festivals and the roar of the subway. Sound makes the world go ’round. If you’ve noticed that you can’t hear as well as you ...