Only being able to hear out of one ear is more than just disorienting—it can even be alarming when it occurs suddenly. Yet hearing loss in one ear, or unilateral hearing loss, can happen for many ...

Before a baby’s first babble, language development begins through exposure to voices, music, and everyday sounds. But what happens when that connection to sound is missing from the start? For ...

ROCKVILLE, Md., Feb. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Childhood hearing loss is a growing public health threat in the United States and around the world, but that doesn't have to be the case. "We must empower ...

May is National Speech-Language-Hearing Month. An audiologist explains why hearing is a critical part of our lives.

What if hearing loss and the risk of dementia were more closely linked than you thought? A new study in the Journal of ...

The system for delivering hearing health care is undergoing dramatic changes. Traditionally, patients would be referred from a primary care physician to an ENT physician or an audiologist, who would ...

Researchers at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders have identified a previously unknown mechanism that destroys the sensory hair cells of the inner ear, a discovery ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Otarmeni (lunsotogene parvec-cwha), the first-ever dual adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector-based gene therapy. Otarmeni is indicated for the ...

The introduction of cochlear implant surgery comes as part of the hospital’s development of its healthcare infrastructure ...