Clinical trials

The device sits in the mouth delivering mild pulses to the surface of the tongue to reduce symptoms and is accessed from healthcare professionals including audiologists and ENT surgeons.
Image: Eoin Holland for Neuromod Devices.

Clinical trials

Neuromod Devices plan to bring Lenire for tinnitus to Australia

September 8, 2024

Neuromod Devices is planning to make its Lenire device available in Australia and would partner with audiologists and ENTs experienced...

Scientist Dr Verena Scheper wants to heal sudden hearing loss with her round window implant. Image: Karin Kaiser/MHH.

Clinical trials

Funding to progress Bacta Implants steroid trials for sudden deafness

by Helen Carter

September 8, 2024

A German otorhinolaryngology research team has developed drug-eluting implants it hopes will be able to treat idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing...

More children with moderate to severe hearing loss, rather than just severe to profound deafness, are being implanted with cochlear implants now. Image: Best smile studio/shutterstock.com.

Audiologists

The cochlear implant revolution and what’s on the horizon

by Helen Carter

September 2, 2024

The world’s first successful cochlear implant surgery in Melbourne 46 years ago made global headlines and changed the way hearing...

The OTC otoscope combines the familiar otoscopic view with high-resolution imaging of the inner structures of the tympanic membrane and middle ear, offering a clearer and more comprehensive view. These images were from a normal ear.

Abbreviations: MA, malleus; CT, chorda tympani; TM, tympanic membrane; IN, incus; UM, umbo; CL, cone of light; P, promontory. (a) A snapshot from the otoscopic video camera. Dashed coloured lines indicate positions where linear scans are shown in panels (c) and (d). (c) Scan extracted along the green-coloured dashed line from the OCT volumetric image. (d) B-scan extracted along the red-coloured dashed line from the OCT volume. (e) 3D volume rendering of the ear.) Image: W. Kim et al., doi 10.1117/1.JBO.29.8.086005.

Audiologists

Study finds new OCT otoscope enhances diagnosis of ear disease

by Helen Carter

August 27, 2024

Researchers have developed a new optical coherence tomography (OCT) otoscope which they claim enhances diagnosis of ear disease and is...

Hearing for learning initiative training course graduates from Galiwin’ku, (from left), Dianne Dickson, Kenisha Garrawurra, Shelly Hunt, Bethanie Gondarra and Karen Gondarra. Image: Menzies School of Health Research.

Clinical trials

Menzies School of Health Research training Indigenous ear health facilitators

by Helen Carter

August 12, 2024

A trial underway in the Northern Territory is training members of local communities to be ear health facilitators so they...

The researchers had hoped aspirin might help delay hearing loss through its blood circulation and anti-inflammatory effects. Image: Victor Moussa/stock.adobe.com.

Clinical trials

Aspirin does not slow hearing loss in healthy older people; ASPREE-Hearing trial

by Helen Carter

August 5, 2024

Taking low-dose aspirin daily does not slow the progression of age-related hearing loss in healthy older adults, according to new Australian-led...

Ebselen aims to improve hearing loss, tinnitus and/or dizziness in Meniere’s disease patients. Image: 9nong/stock.adobe.com.

Clinical trials

Clinical trial completed for Sound Pharmaceuticals’ Ménière’s Disease drug

by Helen Carter

August 2, 2024

A phase three clinical trial of a novel anti-inflammatory drug for Ménière’s Disease has been completed, its developer Sound Pharmaceuticals...

Principal investigator of the Australian study site, Associate Professor Valerie Sung from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI), Melbourne, said the natural history study is in children and adults with the same form of auditory neuropathy deafness in both ears. Image: MCRI.

Clinical trials

MCRI study may pave way for local gene therapy for auditory neuropathy

by Helen Carter

October 2, 2024

A Melbourne study is recruiting Australians with auditory neuropathy to undergo genetic testing which could lead to gene therapy in...

Adjunct Associate Professor Elaine Wong, Head of Hearing Therapeutics at Ear Science Institute Australia said pioneering gene therapy could restore hearing in patients with profound genetic hearing loss. Image: Ear Science Institute Australia.

Clinical trials

Australian first biobank at Ear Science Institute Australia to store tissue for genetic deafness therapies

by Helen Carter

July 13, 2024

A biobank being established in Perth will be the first of its kind in Australia to store tissue related to...

The Passe & Williams Foundation has donated nearly $70 million in awards and grants to scientists and clinical practitioners in otolaryngology head and neck surgery, supporting career pathways and promoting development of related products and technologies. Image: serge3d/stock.adobe.com.

Clinical trials

The Passe & Williams Foundation award round opens for ENT research grants

by Helen Carter

June 28, 2024

Applications open on Tuesday 2 July 2024 for The Passe & Williams Foundation’s 2025 financial year award round for grants...

Gel drug delivery system may prevent chemotherapy-induced hearing loss

Clinical trials

Neuromod Devices plan to bring Lenire for tinnitus to Australia

Funding to progress Bacta Implants steroid trials for sudden deafness

The cochlear implant revolution and what’s on the horizon

Study finds new OCT otoscope enhances diagnosis of ear disease

Menzies School of Health Research training Indigenous ear health facilitators

Aspirin does not slow hearing loss in healthy older people; ASPREE-Hearing trial

Clinical trial completed for Sound Pharmaceuticals’ Ménière’s Disease drug

MCRI study may pave way for local gene therapy for auditory neuropathy

Australian first biobank at Ear Science Institute Australia to store tissue for genetic deafness therapies

The Passe & Williams Foundation award round opens for ENT research grants

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