Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Isaac wears hearing aids because his deafness was noticed when he was screened as a newborn baby [BBC] Isaac has been wearing ...

Isaac has been wearing hearing aids for most of his four years. His current ones are in his favourite colours of blue and orange. "When I go to bed, I take them off," he said. "I can't hear then".

WASHINGTON , Jan. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- A new study indicates that noninvasive prenatal screening (NIPS) performed using a low-cost form of whole genome sequencing can detect pregnant mothers at ...

(The Center Square) – As Illinois rolls out a new law requiring early literacy screenings beginning Jan. 1, some educators question whether it will solve reading issues or just mislabel children as ...

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Carter-Bawa is a behavioral scientist and director of the Cancer Prevention Precision Control Institute at the Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery & Innovation. For years, federal policymakers ...

A comprehensive eight-year study examining audiological outcomes of newborns screened for congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) through universal screening demonstrates the critical importance of early ...

October is National Protect Your Hearing Month, and a recent study is linking untreated hearing loss with dementia. An 8-year study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) ...

More older adults have turned to cochlear implants after Medicare expanded eligibility for the devices. By Paula Span Kitty Grutzmacher had contended with poor hearing for a decade, but the problem ...