Childhood cancer survival rates have soared. A new St. Jude study reveals what happens after treatment ends. Medicine hasn't solved it yet.

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Radiation therapy alone — no chemotherapy required — causes severe hearing loss ...

Scientists just found a hidden reason inner ear cells die. A common antibiotic class is directly implicated. And the mechanism has been hiding in plain sight for years.

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Aminoglycoside antibiotics — prescribed for drug-resistant ...

Ever felt embarrassed about your high-pitched "goo-goo ga-ga" voice around babies? Well, you can stop. New research shows baby talk isn't just adorable nonsense—it's legit communication that happens everywhere.

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Millions of people watch birds for fun. Most of them have no idea they may be running a cognitive training program. Scientists now have the scans to prove it.

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The brain has a defense mechanism against aging called cognitive ...

A simple hearing test at a specific frequency can predict whether a factory worker will lose their ability to understand speech, years before it happens. Researchers just proved it works in the largest occupational hearing loss prediction cohort ever ...

Age-related hearing loss is common. Dementia is feared. Scientists long treated them as separate problems. New research says they share the same biological root.

Researchers at Tiangong University and Shandong Provincial Hospital have identified ...

Scientists mapped how Kemp's ridley sea turtles hear underwater. The turtles cannot vocalize pain from the engine noise of ships. Now we know why they might want to.

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Kemp's ridley sea turtles hear best at 300 Hz. That ...

The global dementia diagnosis rate is alarming: 27,000 people receive this news daily. But there's a promising development in early detection. Researchers have discovered that subtle changes in speech patterns could signal Alzheimer's before traditional ...

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