{"id":1677,"date":"2021-03-08T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T17:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/longhornhearing.fm1.dev\/?p=1677"},"modified":"2022-05-24T13:25:30","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T18:25:30","slug":"todays-hearing-research-offers-hope-for-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/longhornhearing.com\/todays-hearing-research-offers-hope-for-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"TODAY\u2019S HEARING RESEARCH OFFERS HOPE FOR THE FUTURE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Scientists. They\u2019re just like us: <\/strong>always looking for ways to help people hear and live their best. It starts with uncovering the mysteries of hearing loss, which can require a lot of resources. That\u2019s why we love seeing important research initiatives get the funding needed to move forward. Check out these three exciting developments:<\/strong>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

AUDITORY PROCESSING<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Can stress early in life affect children\u2019s ability to make sense of what they hear? A $2.3 million grant<\/a> awarded by the U.S. National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders at the National Institutes of Health will help Northeast Ohio Medical University explore just that. The funding will help power an investigation into the role of early-life stress on auditory processing \u2014 especially among children with conductive hearing loss. Per the school\u2019s website, the research in part \u201cwill provide a focus for future experiments to determine how best to remediate these perceptual problems in children.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

HEARING LOSS AND TINNITUS<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Certain chemotherapy drugs can be life-saving for patients but potentially harmful to the ears. A $5.7 million U.S. National Cancer Institute grant<\/a> will help researcher Lois B. Travis, M.D., Sc.D., at the Indiana University School of Medicine continue an ongoing investigation. The study, aimed to \u201cevaluate long-term health outcomes for cancer patients who receive platinum-based chemotherapies,\u201d may help provide some important answers regarding potential links between the cancer treatment and conditions such as hearing loss and tinnitus. It eventually could help experts identify not only those at greater risk of the harmful side effects but also ways to reduce such risks.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

HEARING HEALTH & COVID-19<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Amid increasing reports of potential links between COVID-19 and hearing loss, the U.K.\u2019s University of Manchester is taking a deeper look<\/a>. With support from donors, the school\u2019s Manchester Centre for Audiology and Deafness is exploring the disease\u2019s long-term effect on hearing ability among adults. More than 10% of respondents treated for COVID-19 had reported tinnitus or decreased hearing in a previous study by one of the investigators. We look forward to seeing the outcomes of the current research, which might offer additional solutions for protecting and preserving hearing health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Scientists. They\u2019re just like us: always looking for ways to help people hear and live their best. It starts with uncovering the mysteries of hearing loss, which can require a lot of resources. That\u2019s why we love seeing important research initiatives get the funding needed to move forward. Check out these three exciting developments:   AUDITORY PROCESSING Can…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/longhornhearing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/longhornhearing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/longhornhearing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longhornhearing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longhornhearing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/longhornhearing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longhornhearing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/longhornhearing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longhornhearing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longhornhearing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}