Hope for Hearing Loss?

ScienceNOW Daily News ^ | 27 August 2008 | Rachel Zelkowitz

[neverdem]

Functional auditory hair cells produced in the mammalian cochlea by in utero gene transfer

[FlyVet]

When you're young, you don't think about hearing loss, and you enjoy loud noise such as rock concerts and lots of skeet shooting without ear protection.

And then when you get older and develop hearing loss, your stereo music doesn't sound quite as good as it did 20 years ago.

And if you develop tinnitus, your ears scream at you every waking hour.

Not that any of you youngsters will listen, I was the same way when I was your age.

[Pining_4_TX]

What did you say? ;-)

[goldstategop]

One day it could make hearing aids and cochlear implants obsolete. For those who suffer severe hearing loss, like myself, its a promising development.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[razorback-bert]

SPEAK UP !

[Plutarch]

This might affect the McCain pick!

[Prophet in the wilderness]

I have some hearing lose and tinnitus in both ears.. tinnitus is something I have gotten use to.
I do believe that hearing lose will be cured before a cure for blindness will be found.

[FlyVet]

Rrrrrrinnnnng! Rrrrrrring!

Did I speak up good enough?

[counterpunch]

No one hopes for hearing loss.

[neverdem]

Excuse me. What did you say? Ugh, I hope can regrow hair cells.

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FReepmail me if you want on or off my health and science ping list.

[FlyVet]

Yeah, you get used to it, but is better not to have it. Youngsters should be told to wear ear protection, unlike us dopes who were not told such things. Lawn mower, circular saw, loud music, all that loud stuff.

My hearing was far above average when I was a freshman in high school.

I was a stereo nut that could appreciate what the "Golden-Eared Audiophiles" could hear, 20 Hz - 20 KHz.

And I had a science teacher who said way back then in the mid-70's, "Invest in hearing aids", because he could see where all us idiots were going.

And now I hear all these idiots driving down the street with their 2000 watt subwoofers...

They're not going to listen to us old farts, but they're messing up....

Once you lose a ton of your hearing, you find out how valuable it is.

It is one of your most basic senses, and when you lose it, there is a gap.....

[Prophet in the wilderness]

What did you say ? Can you say that again ? .
Your right, I had to use ear protection while using the lawnmower today, I don't want to lose what I have left of my hearing.

[FlyVet]

Heck I wear ear plugs when I use the vacuum cleaner now, that thing sounds LOUD to me.

You just don't appreciate your hearing until you start to lose it.

[2ndDivisionVet]

The next 10-20 years will be like a Star Trek script.

[KJC1]

Ping to a thread that might be of interest to you. :^)

[freeangel]

saving

[grey_whiskers]

Thanks, bookmarking.

While they're at it, they should pinpoint the gene that makes older men grow hair on their back instead of where it belongs on their head...

Cheers, sonny!

[Prophet in the wilderness]

So as long as I can still hear Bach Double (Concerto for Two Violins in D minor) I am fine.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

“So as long as I can still hear Bach Double (Concerto for Two Violins in D minor) I am fine.”

Agreed...and Vivaldi, and Mozart, and Beethoven, and Chopin.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

By the way, Michelle Malkin suffered hearing lose in one ear from all the shouting this week during that scuffle as some ass threaten to kill her.

It must have been quite bad seeing that she must have consulted an MD to have made that statement.

Obligatory photo please.