There are few things more heartwarming than videos of children with deafness gaining the ability to hear, showing them happily turning their heads at the sound of their parents' voices and joyfully ...

(Reuters) - An experimental gene therapy being developed by a Chinese company restored hearing in children with congenital deafness, researchers working on a clinical trial reported on Wednesday, ...

When my daughter was 3 months old we found out she had significant hearing loss in one ear. We chose not to go through with a cochlear implant because there were no guarantees. We decided it should be ...

When she was born, doctors informed Opal Sandy’s parents that their child would never hear. At the age of 11 months, she had not reacted even to the most noise. Two years later, the same child now ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Some things just go together — like Michael Jordan and 23... and Mariyah Saldana and basketball. "I was in Kindergarten and I started playing and I never stopped," Mariyah recalled.

For a long time, deafness has often been misunderstood, fueling segregation against people who are deaf or hard of hearing. In some communities, it is still seen as a curse or divine punishment; in ...

No, the correct choice is not to ignore them. Genetic therapy for deafness is not like a vaccine against an infectious disease. Being deaf is not life-threatening, deafness is not infectious, You're ...