PHOTO PROVIDED Pictured above is a chart to showcase the different parts of a cochlear implant. A cochlear implant is an electronic medical device designed to restore the ability to perceive ...

The cochlea uses sensory hair cells to detect sound waves in the air, then converts them into electrical signals that the brain can process. Most cochlear nerves carry information from the cochlea to ...

One halcyon spring day in 1903, the 69-year-old anatomist and naturalist Dr. James Bell Pettigrew sat at the top of a sloping ...

The idea behind the new therapy, which is expected to go on trial in the UK at the end of the year, is that when people lose the ability to hear very high frequencies, the nerve cells in the brain ...