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Charlie Rose interviews eminent auditory scientists on a program featuring a winner of the 2013 Lasker Medical Research Award for development of the cochlear implant. Watch the program here:

“I have just finished reading “Song Without Words (Discovering My Deafness Halfway Through Life)” by Gerald Shea. This book has been very well researched and there is a great deal of valuable and interesting information in it. It’s a good … Continue reading →

Three eminent scientists were presented with the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award in New York City on September 20, 2013 “for the development of the modern cochlear implant—a device that bestows hearing to individuals with profound deafness.” The Lasker Foundation … Continue reading →

For those who are interested in “sitting in” on a professional and sophistcated lecture on tinnitus by one of the lead researcher in the field, here is a video by Richard Salvi, Ph.D., Hearing Research Lab, University of Buffao (NY). … Continue reading →

by Richard Salvi, Ph.D., Hearing Research Lab, University of Buffalo (NY) A few days ago, I received a phone call Gerry Fox, Director of NOHR informing me that two young investigators at the University at Buffalo, Dr. Wei Sun and … Continue reading →

My latest trip to universities to visit researchers was to Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. Elisabeth Glowatzki, Ph.D., a previous NOHR Young Investigator Awardee and now Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine- Dept. of Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery, … Continue reading →

“Hooray for New York City’s Mayor Bloomberg!” Read the article:

In the Book Review section of ”The New York Times” on Sunday, March 3, 2013, auditory neuroscientist Seth S. Horowitz reviewed “Shouting Won’t Help,” editor Katherine Bouton’s memoir about losing her hearing during adulthood. “She masterfully depicts its effects on her personal … Continue reading →

Marlee Matlin, who lost most of her hearing as a toddler, appears in ABC Family’s award-winning series “Switched at Birth.” Read an article where she talks about the show here: An episode that was entirely in American Sign Language, a … Continue reading →

Here it is – February—one month into 2013 and the National Organization for Hearing Research Foundation (NOHR) already has exciting news to begin the year! NOHR, a 501 (c)(3) public charity, has announced a Request for Applications for Research Grants … Continue reading →