A new study has shared details about the first clinical trial surrounding a new deafness treatment. The treatment relies on gene therapy to treat inherited deafness. The authors of the study called ...

Deafness, the most common sensorineural hearing loss at all stages of life, occurs either independently or as part of ...

Gene therapy has successfully restored hearing in some children born with inherited deafness, health officials say. A study in China and another at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia documented ...

Children with hereditary deafness regained their hearing thanks to a type of gene therapy, a new study published on Wednesday found. In a clinical trial, co-led by investigators from Mass Eye and Ear, ...

Five children who were born completely deaf have had some reversal of hearing loss after receiving a "groundbreaking" gene therapy. The clinical trial, which was co-led by Mass Eye and Ear in Boston ...

This is the first time such results have been achieved in both children and adult patients born with a specific type of congenital deafness. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

In a darkened room in Rochester, N.Y., a baby girl in a pink onesie peers at a computer screen. Wherever she looks, an eye tracker follows — recording her gaze patterns for future analysis. The baby, ...