A Great Man Supports a Good Cause

One sunny Palm Beach morning about 43 years ago, a young, beautiful and dynamic New York socialite sauntered into the Breakers Hotel and swept the American Otological Society off its feet. With the ... Read More »

How to Contribute to the Deafness Research Foundation

The Deafness Research Foundation (DRF) was founded in 1958 to make a lifetime of hearing possible for all people through innovative, cutting-edge research. Each year since inception, DRF has funded ... Read More »

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Se Habla y Se Oye Español

Help for Deaf and hard of hearing (D/HH) Hispanics is becoming more accessible. The Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (AG Bell), ... Read More »

Discoveries in Genetics Advance Hearing Research and Care

Heredity has long been recognized as a major cause of hearing loss. Approximately one in 1,000 newborns has hearing loss and over half of these cases are due to genetic causes. Genetic factors are ... Read More »

Heard Around the World

Visualizing Noise Pollution

Spain is leading the battle against noise pollution with a new law that calls for the collection of data which is then converted to sound values through a mathematical ... Read More »

The Resistant Loved One with Hearing Loss

How many people do you know who should be wearing hearing aids but aren’t? Let me give you an insider’s view of a situation that would be considered pandemic if it were almost any other health ... Read More »

Assuredly Insured

He was born in 1893 in rural Switzerland, one of twelve children. He came to America at the young age of 15, speaking no English but fluent in Low German, a language spoken by the rural folks of Switzerland. ... Read More »

Prevention Effective Against Deadly Strep

Group B streptococcal (GBS) is one of the leading infectious causes of death and disease in newborns. GBS bacteria are common in adults – nearly one in four women in the United States is a carrier, ... Read More »

Congenital CMV and Hearing Loss

Four-year-old Jakob Boot loves to play ball with his older brother, Niko. In fact, he likes doing just about everything his brother does. Little brothers often have a hard time keeping up but Jakob ... Read More »

GBS Vaccine: Able but Not Willing

In the early 1970s, when “early-onset” (age under seven days old) and “late-onset” (between seven and 89 days old) group B streptococcal (GBS) meningitis in young infants was first described, ... Read More »

Meningitis and Hearing Loss

Some people are born with hearing loss. Others acquire it later in life. Bacterial meningitis (infection of the protective covering of the brain and spinal cord) is the most common cause of acquired ... Read More »

A New Approach to Developing CMV Vaccines

Vaccines are widely recognized as the most cost-effective healthcare approach to combating infectious diseases. So why is there no vaccine against one of the leading infectious causes of birth defects ... Read More »

Telephone Solutions for Home and Businesses

Today, people with hearing loss have many options beyond the basic instrument that Alexander Graham Bell invented that can improve their ability to communicate effectively via a landline telephone. ... Read More »

Under the Scope

Up close and personal – it's how Katherine Rennie, Ph.D., interacts daily with vestibular system hair cells. Now in her second year of funding by the Deafness Research Foundation, Rennie's work at ... Read More »

Babbitt’s Code: Service to Others

Telling a person that you’re having trouble hearing can be a bother and for some, downright embarrassing. Regardless of how many times you have to do it, there just seems to be no getting used to ... Read More »

Greater Hearing Loss in Young Diabetics

It's a debate that has been raging for 150 years: Does diabetes contribute to hearing loss? Even though we know that the high-sugar environment typical of diabetes damages a host of other bodily systems ... Read More »

Those Old Family Carols Play

“Do you hear what I hear?” rang out the song in the mall as I was shopping on Christmas Eve 2002. On that day, for the first time in over 25 years, I could answer, “Yes!”

In October ... Read More »