Only being able to hear out of one ear is more than just disorienting—it can even be alarming when it occurs suddenly. Yet hearing loss in one ear, or unilateral hearing loss, can happen for many ...

About 1.5 billion people globally experience some level of hearing loss—that's nearly 20% of the world's population. Losing the ability to hear can be devastating, and navigating potential treatments ...

ROCKVILLE, Md., Feb. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Childhood hearing loss is a growing public health threat in the United States and around the world, but that doesn't have to be the case. "We must empower ...

Before a baby’s first babble, language development begins through exposure to voices, music, and everyday sounds. But what happens when that connection to sound is missing from the start? For ...

What if hearing loss and the risk of dementia were more closely linked than you thought? A new study in the Journal of ...

The system for delivering hearing health care is undergoing dramatic changes. Traditionally, patients would be referred from a primary care physician to an ENT physician or an audiologist, who would ...

Infants born deaf or hard of hearing show adverse changes in how their brains organize and specialize, but exposure to sound and language may help them develop more normally, according to new research ...

The role of neural hearing loss (NHL) in development of hearing impairment is increasingly recognised by the clinical community as central to hearing loss. NHL represents a significant unmet medical ...

Researchers at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders have identified a previously unknown mechanism that destroys the sensory hair cells of the inner ear, a discovery ...