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No, I don't. Sorry you interpreted it this way. If you read it carefully I did not say that all the people scared about surgery get tons of drugs. I only said that I met several people scared about surgery, but completely unaware of the risks of other apparently safer practices, like...

Nice work of italian guys!! :D I would like to point out this sentence from the abstract: "These observation offer the first evidence that transplanted human HSC migrating to the inner ear of oto-injured mice may provide conditions for the resumption of deafened cochlea, emerging as a...

I am in the difficult position of being a father who have to make a choice for his son. I strongly believe that only who has been in the same situation can really understand. I am struggling with myself, during all my free-time my brain is focused on that, I am collecting a lot of information...

yes, following their own stats... :hmm:

It's pretty clear you have no idea of what could be behind the treatment. That money appears to be hardly sufficient to grow up a suitable cell population! add the clinical costs, medical treatment, simple administrative cost for the hospital and finally a profit (won't you think they work for...

Besides all the risks associated with any surgery, it is extremely wrong to consider surgery a big risk by itself. Modern medicine is Many people are scared about the simplest of the surgery (and CI nowaday is pretty simple), but get tons of pills of any kind... The risk they are facing is far...

:gpost: You could not say it better. Parents decide for CI or for no-CI, everybody is free to use his own arguments and opinions. All of them will do what they think is the best for the child. That's the point. The CI discussion under this perspective is a non-sense...

Beike Biotech is heavily discussed. Even Nature talked about that some time ago (if I find time I'll look for that article). Several scientists expressed opinions against the therapies applied there. Basically they are doing something not based on officially accepted scientific results. This is...

Right. Illusion. Not well informed people. Or unable to understand how things really are. Nevertheless it's pretty evident CI is a device with an impressive potential.

I think we can interpret it as if we have 1 researcher doing the work in 10 years, when we can have 10 researchers it is possible to do it in 1 year. In other words, if this kind of research sees an increase of funding from either public institutions and private foundations, it simply...

As far as we know, all these news could be absolutely and simply false. No peer reviewed publication, no proof of result.

Guys, I can create tens of websites with any kind of things written on them. Can I expect people would believe? How can you be sure with information taken from websites you need google translation to understand!?!? My impression is you believe to these info because you like what you read. How...

Sorry, in science it does not work this way. Do you have funding? You can get results. Don't you have funding? Look for it. Results are increasing when more money is put in the field, period.

Obviously you audi have all the data to make the judge, but it sounds very strange not to expect any improvement over your 6% by CI... :hmm:

They gave you the best they had at that time. CI was not an option. Conservative choices (wihout associated risks) are not always correct. People can decide not to go for a CI, obviously, but it is the best technology now available. The risk of not going for it is exposing the child to a much...

Really?!?!? Are you sure of that?!?

Well, you are right, it is always a matter of personal ideas. In my experience I would say that a significant part of the teenagers could not have the ability to make such a choice properly... A 6 yr-old child is very young, besides cultural habits!

Sorry, but it is pretty easy to say "if I had hearing impaired children"... If you really have a child with this problem your role of parent is to take decisions for him. Parents MUST decide for their children. And you have to decide for what you think is the best option. Making this means...

Hopes and expectation are quite understandable. All of us hope stem cells or any other thing could come right now and finally give a cure without risks and side-effects. Unfortunately life is much much more complicated than dreams. Stem cells will come, they will be a step forward, but they will...

Today Nucleus5 substituted officially Nucleus Freedom in the Cochlear America web site. No more trace of the old model. The Freedom still is present on all the other localized version of Cochlear websites, where there is still nothingabout the new model. They are probably updating theis sites...