ASHA Voices: What If Permanent Hearing Loss Could Be Reversed?
On this episode of ASHA Voices, we dive into the research behind hearing loss reversal.
While investigating a genetic form of hearing loss affecting transduction, researcher Jeff Holt found he could successfully reverse hearing loss in mice. How did the researcher test the rodents’ hearing? By unexpectedly playing loud music and looking for a response in the subjects, nicknamed Beethoven mice.
“A deaf mouse doesn’t jump at all, no matter how loud a sound you play. But after introducing our gene therapy into the ears of Beethoven mice, we find they jump again,” says Holt.
Also on the show, sensorineural he...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - January 16, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: J.D. Gray Tags: Academia & Research Audiology Health Care Podcast Slider Speech-Language Pathology ASHA Convention audiologist Hearing Assistive Technology hearing loss Source Type: blogs
Discover Which CSD Stories Topped the Charts in 2019
A lot happened in the world of communication sciences and disorders in 2019. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved cochlear implants for single-sided deafness. Skilled nursing facilities reacted to Medicare reimbursement changes in an unexpected and unfortunate way. A video clip showing comedian D. J. Pryor “talking” with his baby son went viral and demonstrated the benefits of communicating with your child to millions. People with communication disorders made more appearances on big and little screens. One of those featured was a child with a cochlear implant in Pixar’s Toy Story 4.
We covered these events ...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - January 6, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Shelley D. Hutchins Tags: Academia & Research Audiology Health Care News Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Hearing Assistive Technology Professional Development Source Type: blogs
Osia, a New Type of Implantable Hearing Solution by Cochlear, Secures FDA Clearance: Interview
Earlier this month, Cochlear received FDA clearance for the Osia 2 System, the first active osseointegrated steady-state implant (OSI). The Osia System represents a new type of bone conducting hearing solution that uses digital piezoelectric stimulation to transmit sound vibration directly to the inner ear. While present in other auditory equipment and some medical devices, piezoelectricity has not previously been used in this type of hearing implant. The Piezo Power transducer allows the Osia System to transmit without any moving parts and avoids the use of natural hearing systems which may be damaged or functioning impro...
Source: Medgadget - December 23, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: ENT Exclusive Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 23rd 2019
In this study, by adenovirus-mediated delivery and inducible transgenic mouse models, we demonstrate the proliferation of both HCs and SCs by combined Notch1 and Myc activation in in vitro and in vivo inner ear adult mouse models. These proliferating mature SCs and HCs maintain their respective identities. Moreover, when presented with HC induction signals, reprogrammed adult SCs transdifferentiate into HC-like cells both in vitro and in vivo. Finally, our data suggest that regenerated HC-like cells likely possess functional transduction channels and are able to form connections with adult auditory neurons.
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Source: Fight Aging! - December 22, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Reprogramming Supporting Cells into Hair Cells in the Inner Ear
In this study, by adenovirus-mediated delivery and inducible transgenic mouse models, we demonstrate the proliferation of both HCs and SCs by combined Notch1 and Myc activation in in vitro and in vivo inner ear adult mouse models. These proliferating mature SCs and HCs maintain their respective identities. Moreover, when presented with HC induction signals, reprogrammed adult SCs transdifferentiate into HC-like cells both in vitro and in vivo. Finally, our data suggest that regenerated HC-like cells likely possess functional transduction channels and are able to form connections with adult auditory neurons.
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Source: Fight Aging! - December 18, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Find Out What Convention-Goers Will Put Into Practice Today
If you didn’t make it to ASHA’s 2019 Convention in Orlando—or if you came but couldn’t make it to every session you wanted to attend—find out what you missed. As we scouted for future article ideas, Leader editors asked ASHA members what they’ll take into their practice, classroom, or health care setting when they get home.
Whether you’re a student or experienced clinician, find out what insights from your peers can work for you, too.
► “Right away, I will start stepping back and taking time to appreciate what these children go through,” said Catherine Cotton. The SLP listened carefully to multipl...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - November 25, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Shelley D. Hutchins Tags: Audiology Events Slider Speech-Language Pathology ASHA Convention Autism Spectrum Disorder Health Care Hearing Assistive Technology hearing loss Language Disorders Schools social skills Speech Disorders Source Type: blogs
Philips Cares Celebrates National Family Caregivers Month with Helpful App
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National Family Caregivers Month which runs all of November is our day, so fellow caregivers, let’s celebrate! According to AARP, we are 40 million strong, so we deserve it. This campaign, themed #BeCareCurious, focuses on recognizing the sacrifice of family caregivers while it emphasizes those sometimes, hard-earned rewards.
Philips is joining in this recognition, as well. The company has been involved in family caregiving though their Philips Lifeline personal alert service, but is now expanding to provide even more help through their new app, Philips Cares. This is a place where subscribers can organize care...
Source: Minding Our Elders - November 21, 2019 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
Be Kind.
Today, November 13, is World Kindness Day. Mark Twain once said, “Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” It is something distinguishable, beautiful and just warms the soul. It is a quality I believe all of my nursing colleagues encompass. And all of us will be patients one
The post Be Kind. appeared first on Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine. (Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University)
Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - November 13, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: On the Pulse baltimore Source Type: blogs
“Why did you make me this way?!”
Recently, Jon Holmlund brought us up to date on an effort in Russia to proceed with CRISPR gene editing aimed at eliminating deafness. Coincidently, a recent MedPage article was posted regarding the ethics of using pre-implantation genetic diagnosis and IVF to purposefully select FOR an embryo with genetic deafness for a couple, both of whom … Continue reading "“Why did you make me this way?!”" (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - November 5, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Mark McQuain Tags: Health Care bioethics biotechnology Consent / Research enhancement human dignity reproduction syndicated Source Type: blogs
Interview with Julian Savulescu on Genetic Selection and Enhancement
Should we use genetic testing to choose what type of children to bring into the world, and if so, how should we choose? Is it acceptable to choose a deaf child? Should we choose our children on the basis of non-disease traits such as intelligence if that were possible ? Does genetic selection put too […] (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - November 4, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Katrien Devolder Tags: Genetics Health Care Audio Files cognitive enhancement disab disability genetic selection human enhancement Katrien Devolder Interview medical ethics PGD procreative beneficence syndicated Video Series Youtube interview Source Type: blogs
Future new CRISPR baby in Russia?
Nature reports that Russian scientist Denis Rebrikov has started experiments intended to lead to editing a gene, in human oocytes (egg cells) associated with human deafness. Prior reports had claimed that he was working on eggs from deaf women in an attempt to repair the defect and, presumably, provide a normal egg for IVF. This … Continue reading "Future new CRISPR baby in Russia?" (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - October 25, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Jon Holmlund Tags: Genetics Health Care bioethics biotechnology enhancement reproduction syndicated Source Type: blogs
The Future Of Hearing: How Technology Might Turn Us Into Superheroes
The objective of medical tools for personal use started to go beyond
measuring health parameters and vital signs, offering accurate, as well as easy
and patient-friendly measurements. Lately, they are also coupled with aesthetic
appearance. Elements of design thinking and UX become an ever more organic
part of product development – and that’s also visible when looking at hearables.
The
trend also allows getting rid of societal stigmas bound with medical devices.
Millions of people don’t
want to wear hearing aids because it’s connected to aging and is perceived as
being more dependent while signaling that the bod...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 12, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine app artificial artificial intelligence ear hearing hearing aid hearing technology medical specialty otoscope smartphone superhero Source Type: blogs
Interview With a Scientist: Unlocking the Secrets of Animal Regeneration With Alejandro S ánchez Alvarado
Most of what we know comes from intensive study of research organisms—mice, fruit flies, worms, zebrafish, and a few others. But according to Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado , a researcher at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, these research organisms represent only a tiny fraction of all animal species on the planet. Under-studied organisms could reveal important biological phenomena that simply don’t occur in the handful of models typically studied, he says.
Sánchez Alvarado’s work focuses on the planarian, a type of flatworm. Its ...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - October 9, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Genes Cellular Processes Regeneration Source Type: blogs
How Are Hospitals Supposed to Reduce Readmissions? | Part I
By KIP SULLIVAN
The notion that hospital readmission rates are a “quality” measure reached the status of conventional wisdom by the late 2000s. In their 2007 and 2008 reports to Congress, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) recommended that Congress authorize a program that would punish hospitals for “excess readmissions” of Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) enrollees. In 2010, Congress accepted MedPAC’s recommendation and, in Section 3025 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) (p. 328), ordered the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to start the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 24, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Medicare ACA Affordable Care Act hospital readmissions Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program HRRP Kip Sullivan Medicaid MedPAC Source Type: blogs
This Summer ’s Biggest Hits: See What You Missed on Leader Live
Summer is officially over, but you can still enjoy the season’s most popular posts here on Leader Live. See what articles with insights and practical tips for audiologists and speech-language pathologists were read and shared the most.
The communication sciences and disorders (CSD) professions featured prominently in the news and social media this summer. A major blockbuster movie featured a character with a cochlear implant, while a major news outlet declared noisy restaurants discriminate against patrons with hearing loss. A father-son viral video demonstrated several clever communication strategies, and Congress intro...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - September 23, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Shelley D. Hutchins Tags: Academia & Research Audiology Health Care Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: blogs
