AN injection in the cheek with a local anaesthetic could banish tinnitus, the ringing in the ears that affects around six million people in the UK. The drug, lidocaine, is already widely used to numb ...

Deaf gerbils have recovered their hearing after human stem cells were injected into their ears. “It’s a proof of concept, and it’s important because for the first time we’ve shown stem cells can be ...

In an effort to elucidate the relation, if any, between thyroid abnormality and congenital deafness in Pendred's syndrome, an experiment was designed to study the effects of hypothyroidism on middle ...