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Former Miss USA Shawnae Jebbia shares her battle with Meniere's Disease to Fox News

Former Miss USA Shawnae Jebbia talks to Fox News about her battle with Meniere's disease and tips on how to get... read more »

A Crown Heights school in Brooklyn pitches in for an aspiring Olympian to compete in the Deaflympics

St. Frances School for the Deaf - located in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, NY - pitched in to send Joanel Lopez to compete in the 2009 Deaflympics in Taiwan.  So far, the school has raised over $540 along with generous contributions from New... read more »

Deaf artist invited to hold interactive art exhibition in Beijing

Leo Lim, a New York University graduate student, received an invitation from the Central Academy of Fine Arts (Cafa) Museum in Beijing to showcase his work "Silent Story" starting July 30th.  Lim - who hopes to promote Malaysian... read more »

Emergency Text Service to Help Deaf People

For the past six years government associations, telecommunication groups and RNID have been working to find a way to install a national emergency service text or SMS number to help deaf people in an emergency.   In some parts of... read more »

Action Deafness holds Deaf Festival

Action Deafness - an organization that works with Deaf, Hard of Hearing, Deafened and Deafblind children, young people and adults across Leicester, Leicestershire and the East Midlands - is holding a festival on May 9th to coincide with Deaf... read more »

BTIG Hold's 7th Commissions for Charity Day: Donations to Benefit Local Charities

BTIG LLC, an institutional broker dealer specializing in trading and related brokerage, has committed to continue its philanthropic efforts with its 7th Commissions for Charity Day, by announcing to donate equity and derivative trading commission... read more »

An Israeli Discovery Could Cure Deafness

Genetics Professor Karen Avraham of Tel Aviv University's (TAU) Sackler School of Medicine, postdoctoral researchers in her lab and Dr. Lilach Friedman have discovered how the function of tiny molecules called microRNAs (miRNAs) in the inner ears... read more »

Stem Cells: Cure for Deafness?

British scientists from the University of Sheffield discovered how to transform foetal stem cells into cells that behave like sensory hair cells or auditory neurons.  The purpose of this research is to be able to surgically insert stem cells... read more »

House Passes EHDI Legislation

On March 30th, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1246 Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Act of 2009.  EHDI legislation would amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize and expand research and public health... read more »

I Don’t Believe My Ears! - A New Book For Charity

Val Blakely and Rachel Chaikof are the co-authors of a new book entitled, I Don’t Believe My Ears!, a compilation of wonderful and humorous stories from adults and children with hearing loss.  Between the two, they have... read more »

NIH awards a $1.8 million grant to current DRF grantee, Michael Burger

DRF is proud to announce that the National Institute of Health (NIH) National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders has awarded Michael Burger, Lehigh University assistant professor of neuroscience, a $1.8 million... read more »

Washington Post article on Tinnitus, " The Buzz That Veterans Hear"

The Washington Post issued an article about Tinnitus and how it is drawing increased attention due to the Department of Veterans Affairs count of about 400,000 veterans,especially young militants, who are affected by the condition. The article... read more »

The New Yorker magazine interviewed one of Health and Hearing magazine's contributors on Tinnitus and its affect on soldiers serving in the war.

In the Fall 2004 issue of Health and Hearing magazine, Theresa Schulz wrote an article titled "Troops Return with Alarming rates of Hearing Loss" that discussed the correlation between hazardous noise exposure from war and hearing... read more »

The Mainstream Center CLARKE - Call for Presentations

Central Auditory Dysfunction in Older Persons With Memory Impairment or Alzheimer Dementia” in Archives of OHNS, June 2008

DRF's Medical Director, Dr. George A. Gates, article on "Central Auditory Dysfunction in Older Persons With Memory Impairment or Alzheimer Dementia", was published  in the Archives of Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery in the month of... read more »

"Bionic Ears" donated to Plácido Domingo's Hear the World Foundation

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Digital Arts, Film and Animation Competition for students with hearing loss

National Technical Institute for the Deaf/Rochester Institute of Technology has announced its third annual Digital Arts, Film and Animation Competition for students with hearing loss in grades 9 through 12.  This national competition recognizes... read more »

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: DRF CENTURION CLINICAL RESEARCH AWARD

The Deafness Research Foundation (DRF) is partnering with the American Academy of Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery’s (AAO-HNS) CORE Grants Program to offer a new one-year grant of $50,000... read more »

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: RESEARCH IN HEARING AND BALANCE SCIENCE

The Deafness Research Foundation (DRF) requests applications from both new applicants, and DRF awardees applying for a second year of funding, who are dedicated to exploring new avenues of hearing and balance science. All... read more »

Journal of Rehabilitation Research & Development (JRRD) Sepcial Issue on Cochlear Implants

The Department of Veterans Affairs’ Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development (JRRD) today released Volume 45, Issue 5, a special issue on cochlear prostheses for adults with hearing impairments.  Hearing loss is among the most... read more »

Idiopathic Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss

DRF Council of Scientific Trustees member Dr. Steven D. Rauch of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary writes in the New England Journal of Medicine on Idiopathic Sudden Senrorineural Hearing Loss. This... read more »

Toys"R"US Toy Guide for Differently-Abled Kids

Special Toys for Special Kids

The 15th edition of the Toys“R”Us “Toy Guide for Differently-Abled Kids” is
now available. It offers a wide variety of toy options categorized with
symbols indicating the... read more »

Screening - Higher Rates of Hearing Loss Found - New York Times

New York Times article on how hearing loss may be more widespread than previously believed; article by Eric Nigourney.

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Soldier's Story Illustrates Risk Hearing Loss in War - USA Today

USA Today article on hearing loss in the military; article by Gregg Zoroya.
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DRF Rings the Opening Bell at the NYSE

To celebrate the upcoming 50th anniversary of the Deafness Research Foundation, The New York Stock Exchange Euronext welcomed the DRF on Wednesday, November 21, 2007.  Andrea Kardonsky, Chief Operating Officer, had the honor of ringing the... read more »

DRF-funded Johns Hopkins Scientists Make Discoveries About Tinnitus

Brain scientists at Johns Hopkins have discovered how cells in the developing ear make their own noise, long before the ear is able to detect sound around them. The finding, reported in this week's Nature, helps to explain how the developing... read more »