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Taking the cure in Toronto  -  25 Mar 2008
Toronto Star,..."They always choose deafness. But I've only had two in over 100 patients with MDR-TB become deaf. It's sad, but there is nothing else to give them.

Baha treatment reverses hearing loss  -  25 Mar 2008
Indianapolis Star,It can be used for people who have single-sided deafness. We also use it for people who have a hearing loss where the sound that enters the ear is not

Ascent of middle England sees Vaughan Williams soar to top of the ...  -  25 Mar 2008
Scotsman,The incessant noise of gunfire was to diminish his hearing, leading to deafness in old age, but he revised and completed The Lark Ascending in 1920.

National Network of Audiologists Launches Consumer Education Video ...  -  25 Mar 2008
Market Wire (press release)The website provides information on causes of hearing loss, complete audiology hearing tests, causes of deafness, ear doctors, the best hearing care and

Gearing for a fight  -  25 Mar 2008
Guardian Unlimited,Can you not see the debate is not about deaf people engineering-in deafness, but about those with some kind of authority based in public acceptance and

NIH COUNCIL OF COUNCILS MEMBERS NAMED  -  25 Mar 2008
Trading Markets (press release),...liaison to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Richard Chabran, MLS, California Community Technology Policy Group,

Pauline is NI's first deaf Tai Chi teacher  -  25 Mar 2008
Derry Today,Pauline remembers when she was working, she felt as if people were not interested in talking to her because of her deafness. Fortunately, that has changed.

Making Good Use of Soft Woods in Makira  -  25 Mar 2008
Solomon Times Online,It has been long believed that firewood from that tree causes deafness if or when used, a belief that is still very strong today.

Club Teaches Deafness Doesn't Hurt Opportunities  -  25 Mar 2008
WLWT,CINCINNATI -- "Can deaf people become professional actors?" Melissa Shaffer asks, using American Sign Language to address a small group of teens seated in a

YMCA, Austin family spar over care of boy with diabetes  -  25 Mar 2008
Austin American-Statesman,But unlike diabetes, deafness is a disability, he said. That remains unclear. The US Supreme Court has ruled in at least one case that diabetes does not

Dear Mr. Carville...  -  25 Mar 2008
Huffington Post,Truth is, there's been so much bomb-throwing between the two Democrats that it's all started to sound like that tinny, temporary deafness Tom Hanks gets in

Womenâ€™s history for youngsters  -  25 Mar 2008
Providence Journal,Years before Helen Keller lived, Laura Bridgman learned to read and write despite her near total blindness and deafness. Bridgman frequently appeared on

MEx Speak-Out Campaign  -  25 Mar 2008
MorungExpress,There are so many special needs cases like Blindness, Deafness, Downâ€™s syndrome, Autism, Cerebral palsy to name a few. However in Nagaland, we have

Deafness Research UK opens up expert knowledge base to tinnitus ...  -  Mar 18, 2008
PRLog.Org (press release),PRLog (Press Release) â€“ Mar 18, 2008 â€“ Deafness Research UK has organised a rare opportunity for the public to meet the scientists who are working to find

Vines: Educator to seek House seat  -  Mar 23, 2008
Knoxville News Sentinel,She is a program administrator at the University of Tennessee Center on Deafness and has worked in the field of deafness and special needs of children.

What can tone deafness tell us?  -  Mar 16, 2008
Chicago Daily Herald,In research circles, serious tone deafness is referred to as amusia. If someone is born that way, it's called congenital amusia. Both Milton Friedman and

Loud IPods Pose Long Term Threat To Hearing  -  Mar 21, 2008
Glasgow Daily Record,MILLIONS of music fans face a "ticking time-bomb" of deafness because of their iPods, an expert said yesterday. Many people who listen to MP3 players such

The hearing's difficulties  -  Mar 10, 2008
Guardian,Yesterday on the Today programme, John Humphrys told his interviewee, Tomato Lichy, a writer and artist, that deafness is a "pretty serious disability",

Dominic Lawson: Of course a deaf couple want a deaf child  -  Mar 10, 2008
Independent,Mr Lichy argued that this legislation was specifically designed to discriminate against deafness. As a matter of fact, he's quite right.

'Dancing with the Stars'' Marlee Matlin  -  Mar 19, 2008
Entertainment WeeklyObviously you will be facing an enormous amount of scrutiny because of your deafness. Does that add an additional level of pressure to this competition?

Early help for children with hearing loss  -  Mar 14, 2008
San Francisco Chronicle,Ellis is co-founder and executive director for the Center for Early Intervention on Deafness in Berkeley, the only nonprofit in the Bay Area that provides

'The Unheard' author Josh Swiller will be heard  -  Mar 12, 2008
Los Angeles Times,Swiller's book, "The Unheard: A Memoir of Deafness and Africa," is alternately passionate and funny, much like its author. Swiller will be at the Los

Athlete isn't letting deafness stop her  -  Mar 3, 2008
abc13.com,By Bob Slovak HOUSTON (KTRK) -- The high school softball season getting into full swing around the area. Out at Cy Ridge, there's a player who knows no

Choosing a deaf baby is criminal  -  Mar 11, 2008
Times Online,Because he believes that deafness is not a disability. He said he felt sorry for hearing people. In a deaf club â€œyou would be the one with the disabilityâ€?,

Major debate will look at embryo issue  -  Mar 22, 2008
ic Wales,...with leading academics in the field of genetics, medical ethics, sign language and deaf studies to discuss deafness and embryo selection.

Deaf fear on iPods  -  Mar 20, 2008
Mirror.co.uk,Millions of music fans risk deafness by listening to iPods too loudly, an expert warned yesterday. Professor Adrian Davis said many users have no idea of

Expert's iPod warning to kids  -  Mar 20, 2008
The Sun,MILLIONS of youngsters face a â€œticking timebombâ€? of deafness from iPods and other MP3 players, an expert has warned. The popular gadgetsâ€™ headphones expose

Beethoven's 2nd  -  Mar 4, 2008
Houston Chronicle,1:15 pm: Beethoven's Triumph Over Deafness with music director Hans Graf; Dr. Richard Stasney, chairman of the Methodist Center for Performing Arts Medicine

Child surgery blitz like spraying weed killer: AMA  -  Mar 17, 2008
ABC Online,..."We must not underestimate the need that these poor children have with chronic ear infections and deafness that can lead to poor education outcomes," he

Hannah's ideas to help the deaf praised by MP  -  Mar 19, 2008
Wrexham Leader,Clwyd South MP Martyn Jones said: "I am delighted to hear about Hannah's and others ideas on where research into deafness is heading.

Caffeine and tinnitus link tested  -  Mar 17, 2008
The Press AssociationThe study has been funded by a Â£55000 grant from Deafness Research UK. With almost 85% of adults in the world consuming caffeine daily, the researchers wish

Assisted reproduction A chip off the old block, please  -  Mar 13, 2008
Economist,If the genes that cause the couple's deafness can be identified, PGD could grant them the child they want. But not in Britain. The law governing fertility

This couple want a deaf child. Should we try to stop them?  -  Mar 8, 2008
Guardian,...'We celebrated when we found out about Molly's deafness,' says Lichy. 'Being deaf is not about being disabled, or medically incomplete - it's about being

Student appreciates her place in 'the deaf culture'  -  Mar 20, 2008
Frederick News Post (subscription),Most people don't understand deafness, she noted. "It doesn't matter because people out there respect me." Ashlyn envisions going on to college at Gallaudet

Couple who want deaf child angry at IVF ban  -  Mar 10, 2008
Telegraph.co.uk,The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill permits the selection of a hearing child through IVF, but embryos with deafness genes will be discarded,

'Creating a death child IS immoral and no parent should be allowed ...  -  Mar 11, 2008
Daily Mail,Whatever its cause, my brother's deafness came as a huge shock to our parents, who already had one child - me - and weren't aware of any deafness in the

UNDERWATER WORLD IS AN EQUALISER FOR DEAF  -  Mar 19, 2008
thisisgloucestershire.co.uk,..."With my deafness, I found it easy to communicate underwater. "I think my deafness is such a bonus because I can talk underwater to anyone who is using deaf

Lawyers pocket half of claim payouts to defence forces  -  Mar 17, 2008
Irish Independent,ALMOST half of all non-deafness compensation payments to members of the defence forces are going to their lawyers. The total payout comes to â‚¬25.7m over the

Hope over brain tumour treatment  -  Mar 24, 2008
BBC News,Patients with neurofibromatosis can develop up to 30 brain tumours, which although benign, can lead to deafness and eventually death.

SOUL CURRY: I yearn to hear my child's voice...  -  Mar 8, 2008
Times of India,Not bothering much about my deafness or general state of health, I got married. But I was shattered when I went for my audiogram test.

Research To Lead To Brain Tumor Therapies  -  Mar 24, 2008
Science Daily (press release)The sheer number of them can overwhelm a patient, often leading to deafness and eventually death. Patients can suffer from 20 to 30 tumours at any one time,

Cochlear Implant Supports an Authorâ€™s Active Life  -  Feb 25, 2008
New York Times,The deafness inherited by Mr. Swiller, his brother and one of their first cousins is caused by an autosomal recessive mutation in a gene called connexion 26

Health 101: Ear Infections  -  Mar 20, 2008
Parents.com75 percent of children will have at least one ear infection by age 3, according to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.

Newborn Hearing Screening Programme secures partnership until 2010  -  Mar 17, 2008
PublicTechnology.net,Under the NHS Newborn Hearing Screening Programme, hearing loss and deafness is now identified in children within the first few months of birth,

'Shutting Up Peggy Lee' opens March 28 at West End Studio  -  Mar 20, 2008
Foster's Daily Democrat,...the newest play from the team that brought you "Ida: Woman Who Runs With the Moose!," "Spousal Deafness" and "Other Bones of Contention" and "In My Head I'm

How Dancing with the Stars' Marlee Matlin Dances Without Music  -  Mar 24, 2008
Seattle Post IntelligencerBecause of her deafness, she has to rely even more on her partner. "Fabian is my music," says Matlin. "He expresses the music to me, and then I absorb it

Man, 87, dies after operation  -  Mar 19, 2008
Whitehaven News,The risks of the operation were explained to Mr Amor who, despite his deafness, seemed to understand, according to the doctor.

Brain scans tune in to personal nature of improvising music  -  Mar 4, 2008
USA TodayIn new findings, researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders say they have

New Book: "'agenaE"  -  Mar 10, 2008
Biddho,This has to do not with Shakespeare's love of Romeo and Juliet, but with the power of communication and a common denominator that we call "Deafness.

Arcalyst Treats Rare Inflammatory Disorders  -  Feb 29, 2008
Forbes,One of them can also cause hearing loss and deafness. Arcalyst, made by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. of Tarrytown, NY, works by blocking a protein that

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