On 1 March, MEPs Helga Stevens and Roberta Metsola hosted a lunch debate in the European Parliament titled, “Action for hearing loss: Make a sound investment”.

[Spanish] La Confederación Española de Familias de Personas Sordas (FIAPAS) y la Plataforma Representativa Estatal de Personas con Discapacidad Física (PREDIF) han firmado un acuerdo de colaboración para contribuir a la promoción de la accesibilidad universal y la mejora de la calidad de vida de las personas con discapacidad.

This is the newsletter of the European Commission’s eHealth, Wellbeing and Ageing team. It is hosted by the Digital Agenda for Europe Newsroom. In this issue, March 2017: Top news, Policy, Audiovisual, Research & Innovation, Calls and Events.

[hear-it.org] People with sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) have more than twice the risk of developing depressive disorders than people without SSNHL. Especially people below the age of 60 are at risk.

[Spanish] En el Día Mundial de los Derechos del Consumidor, que se celebra hoy, la Confederación Española de Familias de Personas Sordas (FIAPAS) quiere denunciar la comercialización de amplificadores de sonido publicitados y/o etiquetados como audífonos, en tiendas y superficies comerciales no especializadas ni autorizadas para la venta y adaptación de audífonos.

On 11th May 2017, the MSCA will organise the fourth  Awards Ceremony of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Prizes, which will take place at the Maltese EU Presidency conference ‘Mobility Takes Research Further’ in Malta .

Members of TARGEAR have published an article in the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE). Two microsurgery approaches for local drug delivery to the inner ear are described in the article and compared in terms of impact on hearing parameters, cochlear cytoarchitecture and expression of inflammatory markers.