The treatment, the first of its kind, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday. “Our baby was born deaf, ...

"This commission has a responsibility to this neighborhood, and I believe this application, as submitted, fails to honor it," ...

Scientists say they have the first direct evidence that seeds can sense the sound of rain, and will sprout faster when they ...

Otarmeni, now cleared to treat a rare, inherited kind of hearing loss, is the first gene therapy cleared under the FDA’s ...

Approval in severe-to-profound and profound OTOF-related hearing loss is based on pivotal results of the CHORD trial demonstrating 80% of participants achieved or surpassed a hearing level meeting the ...

Scientists at Oregon Health & Science University have identified a specific brain circuit that may help explain the ...

Communication was imperative for three hard-of-hearing student-athletes as they found their home at SUNY Canton. A welcoming ...

Travis Smith was a very serious baby. Born completely unable to hear, his mother Sierra struggled to see his personality ...

A new international study co-led by investigators from Mass General Brigham and the Eye & ENT Hospital of Fudan University shows that a gene therapy for a rare form of genetic deafness successfully ...

The treatment, developed by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, is for a very rare form of deafness. But it represents a medical ...

The U.S. ‌Food and Drug Administration has approved Regeneron's gene therapy for ​a rare genetic form ​of deafness, the ...

Researchers say a gene therapy allowed deaf children and adults as old as 32 to hear for the first time. The benefits have ...