There are few things more heartwarming than videos of children with deafness gaining the ability to hear, showing them happily turning their heads at the sound of their parents' voices and joyfully ...

(Reuters) - An experimental gene therapy being developed by a Chinese company restored hearing in children with congenital deafness, researchers working on a clinical trial reported on Wednesday, ...

A small study published Wednesday documents significantly restored hearing in five of six kids treated in China. On Tuesday, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia announced similar improvements in ...

When my daughter was 3 months old we found out she had significant hearing loss in one ear. We chose not to go through with a cochlear implant because there were no guarantees. We decided it should be ...

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 ...

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals' otoferlin gene therapy (DB-OTO) shows promising results in a child with genetic hearing loss, demonstrating improved auditory responses in the phase 1/2 CHORD clinical trial ...

'Dada' is a first word for many babies. Babbling sounds with consonant-vowel repetitions, such as 'dada,' are common among infants once they reach 8 months old; however, these sounds are not prevalent ...

Severe hearing loss can transform even the most familiar environments into silent, isolating landscapes. Severe hearing loss cannot be “cured” with hearing aids, but they can provide significant ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Some things just go together — like Michael Jordan and 23... and Mariyah Saldana and basketball. "I was in Kindergarten and I started playing and I never stopped," Mariyah recalled.

For a long time, deafness has often been misunderstood, fueling segregation against people who are deaf or hard of hearing. In some communities, it is still seen as a curse or divine punishment; in ...

No, the correct choice is not to ignore them. Genetic therapy for deafness is not like a vaccine against an infectious disease. Being deaf is not life-threatening, deafness is not infectious, You're ...