Scientists regenerate hair cells that enable hearing
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Scientists regenerate hair cells that enable hearing
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Re: Scientists regenerate hair cells that enable hearing
#2I’m really tired and based on the headline I thought scientists had a cure for male pattern baldness and the new hairs increased your sense of hearing…
Re: Scientists regenerate hair cells that enable hearing
#3I’m really tired and based on the headline I thought scientists had a cure for male pattern baldness and the new hairs increased your sense of hearing…
Serious question from the article though…why do Americans account for an outsized percentage of hearing loss sufferers?
Re: Scientists regenerate hair cells that enable hearing
#4I’m really tired and based on the headline I thought scientists had a cure for male pattern baldness and the new hairs increased your sense of hearing…
Serious question from the article though…why do Americans account for an outsized percentage of hearing loss sufferers?
Big country, "louder is better", teens blasting their hearing with in-ears, concerts that leave your ears ringing for days, inadequate safety in the workplace, heavy use of drugs like Viagra (yes, hearing loss and tinnitus are a side effect in some users with high blood pressure). Diet-related hearing loss too as a lot of people eat crap. Probably other reasons too.
Re: Scientists regenerate hair cells that enable hearing
#5I’m really tired and based on the headline I thought scientists had a cure for male pattern baldness and the new hairs increased your sense of hearing…
Serious question from the article though…why do Americans account for an outsized percentage of hearing loss sufferers?
It's wrong, they are comparing American hearing loss with the world wide disabling hearing loss.
1.5 billion people (nearly 20% of the global population) live with hearing loss; 430 million of them have disabling hearing loss - https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/deafness-an...
Re: Scientists regenerate hair cells that enable hearing
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Serious question from the article though…why do Americans account for an outsized percentage of hearing loss sufferers?
Big country, "louder is better", teens blasting their hearing with in-ears, concerts that leave your ears ringing for days, inadequate safety in the workplace, heavy use of drugs like Viagra (yes, hearing loss and tinnitus are a side effect in some users with high blood pressure). Diet-related hearing loss too as a lot of people eat crap. Probably other reasons too.
military cases are huge
Re: Scientists regenerate hair cells that enable hearing
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Serious question from the article though…why do Americans account for an outsized percentage of hearing loss sufferers?
Big country, "louder is better", teens blasting their hearing with in-ears, concerts that leave your ears ringing for days, inadequate safety in the workplace, heavy use of drugs like Viagra (yes, hearing loss and tinnitus are a side effect in some users with high blood pressure). Diet-related hearing loss too as a lot of people eat crap. Probably other reasons too.
Also, stupidly loud cars and motorcycles on city streets, and ineffective vehicle noise laws / enforcement thereof.
Re: Scientists regenerate hair cells that enable hearing
#8I have tinnitus, which is pretty annoying. Very excited to see the possibility of treatment for this.
Re: Scientists regenerate hair cells that enable hearing
#9I’m really tired and based on the headline I thought scientists had a cure for male pattern baldness and the new hairs increased your sense of hearing…
I read it as if research showed that scientists regenerate their hair cells, and everyone else does not.
Re: Scientists regenerate hair cells that enable hearing
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Serious question from the article though…why do Americans account for an outsized percentage of hearing loss sufferers?
Big country, "louder is better", teens blasting their hearing with in-ears, concerts that leave your ears ringing for days, inadequate safety in the workplace, heavy use of drugs like Viagra (yes, hearing loss and tinnitus are a side effect in some users with high blood pressure). Diet-related hearing loss too as a lot of people eat crap. Probably other reasons too.
> Diet-related hearing loss too as a lot of people eat crap
Cases like this where it's caused by another issue are theoretically reversible though, right?