Children can develop hearing loss at any age due to ear infections, illnesses such as measles or meningitis, head injuries, or exposure to loud noise. Adolescents are particularly at risk because of ...

During the Boston Globe’s Rare Disease Summit, Dr. Wendy Chung, a physician-scientist and geneticist who leads the Department ...

A Seminole County couple is pressing a fertility clinic for answers after discovering their newborn, conceived through IVF, is not genetically theirs.

For more than six decades, biomarker-based newborn screening has played a pivotal role in reducing infant mortality and ...

When Selva Hamraz arrived with her family in Rwanda from Afghanistan, she was unable to hear and unsure of her future. Today, her story has helped launch a cochlear implant programme that is ...

Most medical practices specialize in one age group. Pediatricians see children. Geriatricians focus on seniors. But hearing loss doesn't respect age boundaries, and neither does Hearing Associates.

Stephanie Hilliard, 50, from Somerset, was diagnosed with a benign, slow-growing meningioma while pregnant with her daughter ...

When Selva Nesar arrived with her family in Rwanda from Afghanistan, she was unable to hear and unsure of her future. Today, her story has helped launch a cochlear implant programme that is ...

The parents of two babies given nitrous oxide in a fatal gas mix-up at a Sydney hospital almost a decade ago express their ...

A judge says the clinic has until Monday, Feb. 23, to comply and send over the requested materials. The couple is continuing to search for their biological child after the mix-up, and hopes to find ...

The Manitoba government has expanded universal newborn screening to include congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV), making Manitoba one of the first Canadian jurisdictions to test all newborns for a ...