Community health worker‐based hearing screening on a mobile platform: A scalable protocol piloted in Haiti
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DOI: 10.1002/lio2.361
Abstract: To establish the feasibility of a systematic, community health worker (CHW)‐based hearing screening program that gathers Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act‐compliant electronic data (otoscopic images of tympanic membrane and audiometric evaluation) on a smartphone… read more here.
Keywords: hearing screening; health worker; community health; health ... See more keywords
Gene editing based hearing impairment research and therapeutics
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DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2019.134326
Abstract: Hearing impairment affects 1 in 500 newborns worldwide and nearly one out of three people over the age of 65 (WHO, 2019). Hereditary hearing loss is the most common type of congenital deafness; genetic factors… read more here.
Keywords: impairment research; gene editing; hearing impairment; editing based ... See more keywords
Model-based hearing-enhancement strategies for cochlear synaptopathy pathologies
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DOI: 10.1101/2022.01.10.475652
Abstract: It is well known that ageing and noise exposure are important causes of sensorineural hearing loss, and can result in damage of the outer hair cells or other structures of the inner ear, including synaptic… read more here.
Keywords: hearing; hearing enhancement; enhancement strategies; based hearing ... See more keywords
Field-based hearing measurements of two seabird species
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DOI: 10.1242/jeb.190710
Abstract: ABSTRACT Hearing is a primary sensory modality for birds. For seabirds, auditory data is challenging to obtain and hearing data are limited. Here, we present methods to measure seabird hearing in the field, using two… read more here.
Keywords: hearing data; field; measurements two; hearing measurements ... See more keywords