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Scientists are always like that. Putting emphasis on their results, increasing the hype, will make getting funds for their research easier. This is especially true for reasearch having a strong social impact, such as medical sciences, but the same happen at different levels in any field. I know...

Deafdude, where did you get the info a simple injection will be sufficient? It sounds like the magic pill. If you have something wrong, a small injection of stem cells and they know what to do, you will be cured. I fear it won't work like that... A few words on that CBR Center for...

I know this is a delicate argument and its complexity cannot be summarized in one single sentence. Nevertheless, saying they all desire the same is a bit too general. I strongly believe on the personal and independent identity. Being deaf does not make one equal to the other deaf people, like...

Stem cell will hopefully give the best hearing. Better, in principle stem cells should be able to give. Premises are excellent, but no single PROOF of success. I am talking about scientific proof. As for costs and risk, this is pure speculation. You do not have any idea of the costs, no...

Basically what they do is monitoring the progresses in language development (if the child is in the proper age), or the behavioral responses to language stimulation. If the child is around 2 and no significant progresses arises after a certain time of HAs usage, it's time to consider CI... The...

NRT should correctly stand for Neural Response Telemetry. Basically it uses the possibility to use the electrodes to stimulate electrically the nerve and to measure at the same time its response to the stimulus. As far as I know it is exactly the test they usually do after implantation (when...

Have a look in the scientific literature. A lot of numbers, either successes and failures are well reported. Although some statistical analysis can be biased somehow and not every data set is really and completely significant, the overall advantage of CI over HA emerges pretty clearly. Deafdude...

Come on Neuro!!! The FAQs of a chinese private company applying stem cells to humans!! It's like posting what Cochlear Corp. says about the benefit of CI!!! The title of the discussion is "INFORMATION FROM SCIENTIFIC SOURCE". If you like to read those people because it increases your...

I think it's not a matter of absolute db values. Being 0db from 500 down and 40 or worse from 1000 up is not like being 30db across the audiogram. This is because speech is not made by pure tones, it is a mixture of complex pitches... This is why CIers usually perform better than...

Now it seems to be official. I am wondering why there is no trace of this new product in the european cochlear web sites (at least in the UK, Italy, France and Germany). But does anybody know if they are being implanted right now?

Although we finally found out that talking about stem cells is OT in this section of the forum, if I understood correctly we are allowed to carry on the discussion here... What nobody commented (ad I am pretty surprised) is the fact that among all the posts dealing with stem cells (and I red...

Just to explain that, this is not stem cells therapy, the company is trying to put on the market a non invasive delivery method to transport chemicals into the inner ear. It is based on nanoparticles and magnetic fields. Though this kind of systems are usually applied to transport drugs to...

Yes Neuro, Sheffield University laboratories seem to be one of the most advanced research centers in the stem cells areas and the group of Dr. Rivolta is focused on the deafness treatment. They are mostly focused on the selection and growth of stem cell lines. They are not involved in clinical...

Yes, great, but I tend to still be skeptical. Honestly there is no scientific evidence here. I really hope that it is true. My question here is why there is no evidence of that extraordinary medical successes in the scientific literature? They would have all the possible benefit in publishing...

That's upsetting!! Really unbelieavable. I personally do not like implanted breast, they hardly look natural. Nevertheless, it must be said it's a matter of personal taste. It is absolutely true that it is a risky surgery. Any surgery has its own risks, the point here is that breast implantation...

This is a book those interested in going deeper into the stem cells/gene therapy for hearing restoration should consider: Gene Therapy of Cochlear Deafness Present Concepts and Future Aspects Editor(s): Ryan, A.F. (La Jolla, Calif.) VI + 120 p., 28 fig., 12 in color, 5 tab., hard...

First of all sorry, this post will be very long, maybe too much. Anyway it deals with scientific information on stem cells. Since we are seeing a lot of information on stem cells from press release, web-sites, any other kind of source impossible to judge about quality and reliability, I would...

I would like to be as sure as you are. I really do not know if he will still be young (or at least sufficiently young) when the stem cells will finally come... If I were sure stem cells are around the corner, I would not have any doubt.

I am NOT against stem cells at all! I would very much like stem cells would be a real choice RIGHT NOW. (My 2yr-old son has a profound hearing loss and we are in the decision step wether to implant him or not. It is the most difficult dicision I've ever taken. He is getting SOME benefit from...

In principle you are right. Anyway I think they translate the concept to anything that touch even from very far away, the genetic issue. My idea is that they do not understand, anyway nothing to do... I don't know, but if you really could, I would be happy to teach you... :cool2: I agree...