TARGEAR was presented by AFFICHEM in the first Occitan/New Aquitaine Economic Summit

[Action on Hearing Loss] Read about recent research from the US, which has uncovered a new way to re-grow hair cells in the lab – and which could, one day, help restore lost hearing.

[Spanish] Coincidiendo con los actos por el Día Mundial del Teatro que se celebra hoy, la Confederación Española de Familias de Personas Sordas (FIAPAS) recuerda a los responsables de las artes escénicas la necesidad de que los recintos culturales y la programación artística sean accesibles.

[Action on Hearing Loss] Researchers in Boston have used improved gene therapy to restore hearing in mice – enough to be able to hear a whisper. The mice have a particular type of Usher syndrome, a condition which causes profound hearing loss (alongside vision loss) in those affected. Carina, from the Biomedical Research team of Action on Hearing Loss, has blogged about the findings, and what this might mean for using gene therapy to treat hearing loss in people.

On the edition of March 2017, eLive has published a serie of 4 articles titled “Plain-language summaries of research”.

The Italian Mattone Internazionale Salute Programme (ProMIS), in collaboration with the Reference Site Collaborative Network (RSCN) of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP-AHA) will organize in Rome on 23-24 march 2017 the RSCN meeting at the Ministry of Health premises, Viale G. Ribotta 5 (EUR district).

[hear-it.org] Hearing loss is more common among Canadian youth than previously reported, a study finds.