A woman with a rare condition that causes hearing- and vision-loss lit up when a cochlear implant was activated in one of her ears. Rebecca Alexander, 47, from New York City, has been diagnosed with ...

This is a video of 3-D confocal image projection of the regenerated cochlear nerve following neurotrophin gene therapy, with the nerve fibers growing down towards the cochlear implant electrode array.

Hearing aids are small, battery-operated devices that a person can wear in or behind the ear. They help people with mild-to-profound hearing loss hear better by amplifying sounds. Hearing aids ...

Bone-anchored hearing aids (BAHAs) and cochlear implants are devices that can improve the quality of a person’s hearing. They work in different ways, and each has specific advantages and disadvantages ...

The use of cochlear implants to treat children and adults with severe sensorineural hearing loss has made "incredible progress" over recent years, according to Christopher Bohr, MD, PhD, director of ...

This is a video of 3-D confocal imaging showing the cells secreting the neurotrophin (cyan) and the regenerated cochlear nerve (purple). This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Apr. 23, ...