Helping research improve treatments for single-sided deafness more quickly – An agreement on what is important to measure
February 25, 2022
Roulla Katiri, on behalf of the CROSSSD initiative, for Hearing Matters UoN blog. Much clinical research sets out to improve and develop new treatments for health conditions. But usually, no one piece of research is enough to be sure which treatments are best. We need to build up a body of many different research studies …
Acoustic Neuroma 20 Years On In 2021
May 27, 2021
Single-sided deafness refers to the condition where there is normal or near-normal hearing in one ear and a severe to profound hearing impairment in the other ear. The Core Rehabilitation Outcome Set for Single Sided Deafness (CROSSSD) study is aiming to identify what is critical and important to measure when testing treatments for adults with …
World Hearing Day 2021
March 3, 2021
Countries around the world have looked to the World Health Organisation (WHO) for information and guidance on how to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. But did you know that the WHO has long been working to reduce hearing difficulties worldwide too? World Hearing Day is a campaign held each year by the Office of Prevention of …
