[Spanish] “Los dos amigos y el oso” y “Quijote y las bicis” de las Asociaciones ASPAS-Valencia y ASPRODESORDOS-Huelva, han sido los ganadores de la V edición del concurso literario ‘El Libro Viajero’ convocado por la Confederación Española de Familias de Personas Sordas (FIAPAS). Este año han participado más de 70 niños y jóvenes sordos. 

[Hear-it.org] Networks in the brain change when a person suffers from tinnitus, an American study finds. The changes cause the brain to concentrate more which makes the person who has tinnitus more tired and unfocused.

Rodríguez-de La Rosa L, Lassaletta L, Calvino M, Murillo-Cuesta S, Varela-Nieto I.
Front. Aging Neurosci. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2017.00411 – Accepted on 27 November 2017. Publicated on 12 December 2017

[Action on Hearing Loss] Welcome to this latest charity eNewsletter of December 2017. It has got all the latest on what this charity is doing to help people confronting deafness, tinnitus and hearing loss to live the lives they choose.

[hear-it.org] Six out of ten working adults aged 55 or older in the UK say that their hearing has deteriorated. This hearing loss affects their work and relations to colleagues in many ways, a survey reveals.

[Spanish] El sábado 9 de diciembre a las 18:30h en librería Artimaña la coordinadora de TARGEAR Isabel Varela-Nieto impartirá una conferencia sobre la sordera dentro del ciclo “Ciencia de Tomo y Lomo”.

Wilson BS, Tucci DL, Merson MH, O’Donoghue GM
Lancet. 2017 Jul 10. pii: S0140-6736(17)31073-5. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)31073-5. [Epub ahead of print]