Musical training can avoid age-related hearing loss

Age-related delays in neural timing are not inevitable and can be avoided or offset with musical training, according to a new study from Northwestern University. The study is the first to provide biological evidence that lifelong musical experience has an impact on the aging process.

NimbleGen Sequence Capture 385K array identifies gene mutations linked with hereditary hearing loss

Hereditary hearing loss is the most common sensory disorder in humans. A German research team led by Ingo Kurth from the Institute of Human Genetics at the University Hospital Jena, Germany, used a number of different methods, including Roche's NimbleGen Custom Sequence Capture 385K array to identify the gene mutated in the disease locus of the X-chromosome of a Spanish family with hereditary ...

NeutronicEar Launches Direct-To-Consumer Website

TAMPA, Fla. , Jan. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NeutronicEar, the leader in Personal Sound Amplification Products (PSAP) today announced direct-to-consumer sales and reduced pricing on their newly re-designed ...

More hockey in Port

PORT COLBORNE — A new girls hockey league is a first for Port Colborne Minor Hockey, said house league director Rob Green. "Over the last little while we've been asked by parents and members of minor hockey to look at offering girls hockey and an adult league," said Green.[...]

Mississippi gopher frog protections seen as threat by St. Tammany Parish landowner

Edward Poitevent is fighting a proposal to designate his family's land as critical habitat