Audiometry-measured hearing loss in older adults accounted for up to 32% of incident dementia cases over 8 years in new research, significantly larger than previously reported estimates. Investigators ...
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. REGN announced updated data on its investigational gene therapy DB-OTO from the CHORD study.
The Audiology group in the UAB Department of Otolaryngology includes three main components: diagnostic testing, hearing aid services, and cochlear implants. Pure tone and speech audiometry Impedance ...
A novel gene therapy enabled children with congenital deafness due to otoferlin (OTOF) gene variants to hear for the first ...
Genetic deficiency of otoferlin, a protein critical to synaptic transmission by the sensory hair cells of the ear, causes congenital deafness. Medicines to treat the condition are lacking; ...
The drugmaker said it plans to submit a regulatory application for DB-OTO to the FDA later this year, pending discussions with the agency.