About 20 percent of children with sensorineural hearing loss also have eye disorders, a new study has found.
Sensorineural hearing loss, caused by damage to the inner ear or to the nerves that link the ear to the brain, affects up to three of every 1,000 children, according to background information in the study. Half of all cases in children are due to genetics, and one gene, GJB2, accounts for a large proportion of sensorineural hearing loss in whites.
By Megan Rauscher
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A second-generation all-natural nose spray called Sinol-M, whose main ingredient is capsaicin derived from hot peppers, safely and effectively relieves stubborn nasal allergies, according to results of a clinical study.
Using optical brain imaging, Bloorview researchers decode preference with 80 percent accuracy
By Will Stewart In Moscow
Russian scientists working at a ‘graveyard’ of extinct mammoths and woolly rhinos in Siberia claim to have found a bacterium which could prolong human virility and life span.
by Tara Parker-Pope
Patients suffering from lower back pain often undergo X-rays or imaging scans to detect the source of the problem. But new research shows scanning to find the source of back pain may do more harm than good.
Researchers from Oregon Health and Science University in Portland reviewed six clinical trials comprised of nearly 2,000 patients with lower back pain. They found that back pain patients who underwent scans didn’t get better any faster or have less pain, depression or anxiety than patients who weren’t scanned. More important, the data suggested that patients who get scanned for back pain may end up with more pain than those who are left alone, according to the report published this week in the medical journal Lancet.
