Four decades have passed since cochlear implants gave infants born deaf the ability to hear. Now, gene therapy promises to ...

Gene therapy has successfully restored hearing in some children born with inherited deafness, health officials say. A study in China and another at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia documented ...

Medical technology company MED-EL announced Thursday that the US Food and Drug Administration has approved expanding the use of its Synchrony cochlear implants to children as young as 7 months who ...

Single-sided deafness (SSD) is a hearing impairment that affects at least one in every 1,000 babies born. These infants have severe-to-profound hearing loss in one ear with normal or near-normal ...

Five children who were born completely deaf have had some reversal of hearing loss after receiving a "groundbreaking" gene therapy. The clinical trial, which was co-led by Mass Eye and Ear in Boston ...

A new study has shared details about the first clinical trial surrounding a new deafness treatment. The treatment relies on gene therapy to treat inherited deafness. The authors of the study called ...

Children with hereditary deafness regained their hearing thanks to a type of gene therapy, a new study published on Wednesday found. In a clinical trial, co-led by investigators from Mass Eye and Ear, ...

Pedmark significantly reduces cisplatin-induced hearing loss in pediatric and AYA patients with non-metastatic solid tumors. The trial confirmed Pedmark's non-interference with cisplatin's antitumor ...