Researchers say deafness can affect children's brain development. Children with hereditary deafness regained their hearing thanks to a type of gene therapy, a new study published on Wednesday found.

In the 1930s and '40s, the husband-and-wife team of Fritz and Grace Heider conducted educational research at the Clarke School for the Deaf in Massachusetts. Although schools for the deaf had been ...

When Yilai Shu was training to be an otolaryngologist in Shanghai, in the mid-2000s, he often met parents with congenitally deaf kids. “They always asked me, ‘Do you have any drugs to treat our kids?’ ...

The infamous little blue pill that keeps men up and at ’em may improve a different kind of hardness — hardness of hearing, that is. A new study reports that Viagra has the potential to reverse a ...

London — One of the youngest children in the world to receive a new type of gene therapy to treat genetic deafness can now hear for the first time in her life. The family of the toddler taking part in ...

What is Unilateral Deafness As Millie Bobby Brown returns for Stranger Things 5 read ahead to know more about the hearing ...

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Scientists believe they are on the brink of a cure for congenital deafness. Researchers have produced stem cells to correct the hereditary defect. They have found a way of growing human cochlear cells ...

Twelve years after filmmaker Irene Taylor Broadsky documented her how her parents live with deafness in the Peabody-winning documentary Hear And Now, she returns to her family for her new documentary.

"I'm not disabled, I'm Deaf" is an argument frequently seen dancing from the hands of the sign language using Deaf community. But what do they really mean when they say that they're not disabled? And ...