For those carrying this genetic variation, even a single dose of gentamicin can sometimes cause severe irreversible hearing loss," she said. “Until now, we have not been able to test for this ...

Using a cheek swab, the test can identify in 26 minutes whether a critically ill baby admitted to intensive care has a gene change that could result in permanent hearing loss if they are treated with ...

Audiologic data at baseline were also similar. Gentamicin-induced hearing loss was mostly moderate in its effect. The incidence of hearing loss in the placebo group was within the anticipated ...

Hearing loss is an etiologically heterogeneous trait with many known genetic and environmental causes. 1 Historically, some environmental causes of hearing loss, such as rubella embryopathy, have ...

Hearing tests can be classified into two main types: diagnostic and screening. Screening tests that employ pure tone audiometry via basic air conduction are utilized to rapidly assess whether more ...

doctors and speech therapists are strongly proposing for universal neonatal hearing screening (UNHS) for the early detection of hearing impairment. The current state of the law in India does not ...

Under the newborn hearing screening programme, over 60,000 infants are screened every year using the state-of-art technology within seven days of their birth at the respective hospitals.

For this reason, Utah law requires that every baby have a hearing screening soon after birth. At Intermountain Health, caregivers check each newborn’s hearing before they go home with their ...