A cochlear implant is a surprisingly small electronic device that can be placed into the inner ear in a relatively short surgery. These devices were initially created to rehabilitate hearing loss in ...

Cochlear implants offer patients a life-changing opportunity to improve hearing loss in both ears — and North Texas is home ...

The 24-layer middle and inner ear surgery took two and half-hours to be completed. "Freedom Cochlea implant is the latest technology in this field and we hope by the time the kid is four years ...

Applegate, professor of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at the Keck School of ... suggesting that the inner ear does not ...

Mr. Shankar, a 24-year-old man, faced years of undetected hearing loss caused by otosclerosis, where the stapes bone hardens, ...

Conductive hearing loss, which most commonly happens in childhood, occurs when sounds do not reach the inner ear. Sound waves are blocked in the outer or middle ear due to ear infections ...

Researchers have developed a method that shows how the nervous system and sensory organs are formed in an embryo. By labeling stem cells with a genetic 'barcode', they have been able to follow the ...

It was at the Nakuru Rift Valley Provincial General Hospital that Mureithi went through a successful surgery by a team of otolaryngologists who are specialists in inner ear surgery, during a free ...