]> http://www.healthedia.com/tags/deafness Blog Articles Tagged with 'deafness' at http://www.healthedia.com en http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/925071?rsstype=tag&tag=deafness A new genetic syndrome was discovered in a group of families in Quebec with a common ancestor. The syndrome was named MEDNIK to describe the resulting phenotypes - mental retardation, enteropathy, deafness, peripheral neuropathy, ichthyosis, and kera... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/925071?rsstype=tag&tag=deafness Mon, 08 Dec 2008 07:59:52 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/924566?rsstype=tag&tag=deafness Last Wednesday, the United Nations held its annual International Day of Persons with Disabilities. The event was headlined by Rudely Interrupted, an Australian band of misfits sporting disabilities like blindness, deafness(!), Asperger and Down synd... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/924566?rsstype=tag&tag=deafness Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:44:34 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/kevin-md-medical-weblog/917310?rsstype=tag&tag=deafness Dr. John House, of the House Ear Clinic in Houston, feels that the fictional doctor on Fox's TV series is at risk for deafness given the amount of Vicodin he takes:It is bad enough that the show depicts a doctor treating patients while addicted to a ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/kevin-md-medical-weblog/917310?rsstype=tag&tag=deafness Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:40:36 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/sharpbrains/913576?rsstype=tag&tag=deafness Chris hosts a superb edition of Encephalon, presenting the articles as an engaging and pretty comprehensive Q&A session. If you want to read the answers, to the questions below, by some of the best neuroscience and psychology bloggers, sim... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/sharpbrains/913576?rsstype=tag&tag=deafness Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:31:54 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/cognitive-daily/913074?rsstype=tag&tag=deafness Over at Sciam's Mind Matters blog, Greta and I have written a guest post about tone deafness and bad singing:Although there have been many studies of perceptual tone deafness, or amusia, few have compared people's ability to hear differences between ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/cognitive-daily/913074?rsstype=tag&tag=deafness Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:50:41 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/904675?rsstype=tag&tag=deafness Professor Stanley Fish of Florida International University, in Miami and dean emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, opens a post about norms and deviations on his New York Times blog by c... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/904675?rsstype=tag&tag=deafness Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:12:51 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/healthy-children/901332?rsstype=tag&tag=deafness Dr. P, my patient said at the end of yet another frustrating visit for her 3-year-old's 4th ear infection. I have a friend who took her child to a chiropractor. He manipulated her neck and poof! no more ear infections. Do you think I should go to ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/healthy-children/901332?rsstype=tag&tag=deafness Thu, 08 May 2008 13:53:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/bps-research-digest/901228?rsstype=tag&tag=deafness You've probably been tormented by a catchy song playing over and over in your head. Spare a thought then for those people for whom this phenomenon is taken to the next level: the song or songs sound real and they play round the clock. They have what'... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/bps-research-digest/901228?rsstype=tag&tag=deafness Thu, 08 May 2008 01:15:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitsugar-healthy-happy-you/897739?rsstype=tag&tag=deafness Most American children are vaccinated for the mumps when they are little with a two-shot series for measles-mumps-rubella. Unfortunately, that vaccine may not be cutting it, because so far 6,600 people (many of whom did receive the vaccine when they ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitsugar-healthy-happy-you/897739?rsstype=tag&tag=deafness Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:00:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-health-with-drgabe/896393?rsstype=tag&tag=deafness Men report that their waist circumferences are an average of 3.1 inches slimmer than they actually are, according to a study from University of Leicester in England. They can die from this vanity. Storing fat in your belly is a major risk factor for... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/fitness-health-with-drgabe/896393?rsstype=tag&tag=deafness Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:22:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/all-ears/894260?rsstype=tag&tag=deafness Most of the antibiotics prescribed for children in the U.S. are for the treatment of middle ear infections. In light of overwhelming evidence that antibiotics are not necessary in many (most) cases, old habits are difficult to change. Medical provide... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/all-ears/894260?rsstype=tag&tag=deafness Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:10:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/blogging-baby/893840?rsstype=tag&tag=deafness Filed under: Health and Safety, Weird but True, In the NewsA deaf couple in the UK are making headlines with their request to choose a deaf embryo, should they go through with IVF. The couple currently have one child who is hearing impaired. Beca... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/blogging-baby/893840?rsstype=tag&tag=deafness Sat, 15 Mar 2008 04:00:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/dr-butterys/893393?rsstype=tag&tag=deafness Those few who might be swayed by recent stories about linkages between vaccines and autism should look at the report that Hib meningitis has been virtually eliminated in young children in Uganda just five years after the country introduced Haemophilu... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/dr-butterys/893393?rsstype=tag&tag=deafness Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:55:04 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/dr-gwenn-is-in/892988?rsstype=tag&tag=deafness In the wake of the confusing story last week of the Georgia family who was awarded money from the vaccine compensation program, comes this USA Today story with the headline Vaccine use wipes out Hib meningitis in Uganda . The timing could not have b... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/dr-gwenn-is-in/892988?rsstype=tag&tag=deafness Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:35:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/892125?rsstype=tag&tag=deafness Measles cases jump to record high... [BBC] Hip-Protector Maker Sues Harvard Doc Over JAMA Study ... [WSJ]Boston Scientific Announces European Approval of New Heart Failure Lead... [Boston Scientific] Inferior Turbinate Debriding Technique: Ten-Year R... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/892125?rsstype=tag&tag=deafness Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:09:05 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/docinthemachine/892081?rsstype=tag&tag=deafness Countless sources are reporting on the three parent embryo created as a potential treatment for infertility. What has not been reported is that ther is an almost 10 year history of unreagulated human experimentation in this arena which led to a... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/docinthemachine/892081?rsstype=tag&tag=deafness Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:29:30 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/straight-from-the-doc/891398?rsstype=tag&tag=deafness The FDA has just approved a new orphan drug for the treatment of rare inflammatory syndromes.The said dug - Arcalyst - is the first treatment for an extremely rare condition known as Cryopyrin-Associated Periodic Syndrome or CAPS.Arcalyst (rilonacept... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/straight-from-the-doc/891398?rsstype=tag&tag=deafness Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:47:06 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/891392?rsstype=tag&tag=deafness Investigators from the NIH and Johns Hopkins University took six jazz players, gave them a custom-built non-ferromagnetic piano keyboard, containing 35 full size plastic piano keys and a plastic casing, and then stuck them into an fMRI machine:A pair... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/med-gadget/891392?rsstype=tag&tag=deafness Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:06:33 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/888019?rsstype=tag&tag=deafness A team of researchers from Newcastle University has created an embryo from three separate parents by using DNA from one man and two women. The researchers hope that, by using this technique, women with diseases of the mitocondria ( mini organelles ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/888019?rsstype=tag&tag=deafness Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:51:21 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/mh-today/887956?rsstype=tag&tag=deafness The Brits are at it again. Last year it was half-human, half-animal embryos. Now it's a human embryo with three parents. The eventual goal is to eliminate diseases of the mitochondria, the so-called power plants in cells. There are about 50 disease... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/mh-today/887956?rsstype=tag&tag=deafness Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:49:39 -0500