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    Favorite TV Shows?

    Sanford and Son.
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    New University of Michigan Tinnitus Discovery — Signal Timing

    Thank you for mentioning Palm Springs Hearing Seminar. I was unaware of this.
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    Blind Man Regains Sight After Receiving 1st Artificial Cornea Implant

    I missed this news. Thank you for posting it.
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    Lower Noise MRI — Has Anyone Used Silent Scan MRI

    Has anyone undergone an MRI with a Silent Scan MRI by GE or some other MRI with noise reducing technology?
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    High-Res Images of Inner Ear Could Lead to New Hearing Loss Therapies

    http://www.ecnmag.com/news/2014/07/high-res-images-inner-ear-could-lead-new-hearing-loss-therapies Understanding how hearing works has long been hampered by challenges associated with seeing inside the inner ear, but technology being developed by a team of researchers that includes a biomedical...
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    Hepatitis C Cured

    I am optimistic it is going to happen Hudson.
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    Hepatitis C Cured

    http://articles.latimes.com/2014/apr/12/science/la-sci-hepatitis-c-cure-20140412
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    Talk about Balding

    I have been using propecia/proscar/finasteride since about 2001. It stopped my hair loss. My libido is as strong or stronger as it has ever been.
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    Life Changed From June 22nd, 2012

    I can tell you about Antwerp if you are interested.
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    Life Changed From June 22nd, 2012

    Feel free to message me privately.
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    Life Changed From June 22nd, 2012

    Aaron, my thoughts are with you. I visited Brai2n when Dr. De Ridder was still there. The facility has since moved from the Univ. of Antwerp. Please allow yourself plenty of time to be there. I actually needed to have scheduled more time to have tried the rTMS. The scheduling secretary...
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    Otonomy Acquires Assets and Patent Rights for Tinnitus Program

    Thanks Markku. Very interesting.
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    Otonomy Acquires Assets and Patent Rights for Tinnitus Program

    I am unfamiliar with gacyclidine. Otonomy Acquires Assets and Patent Rights for Tinnitus Program - PR Newswire - The Sacramento Bee Otonomy, Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing innovative therapeutics for diseases and disorders of the inner and middle ear, today...
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    Neurofeedback for Tinnitus

    Markku, when I traveled to the clinic at the University of Antwerp, I had the pleasure of meeting a Belgian citizen who was receiving tinnitus treatment there on my first day at the clinic. He had been a musician. The gentleman told me that neurofeedback helped him. He had utilized the...
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    1.5 Years In... Not Getting Any Better Whatsoever

    RaZaH, sound therapy has helped me I think. I listen to a white noise cd my otoneurlogoist gave me. I listen to it as much as I can and have done so since February 2012. I use it to partially mask and I think it has helped me to partially habituate. I am still struggling with sleep at...
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    South Florida Doctor Regrows Part of Man's Finger

    http://miami.cbslocal.com/2013/09/16/s-fl-doctor-uses-new-technology-to-re-grow-mans-finger/ DELRAY BEACH (CBSMiami) — It’s being called a medical marvel. A south Florida doctor used a unique procedure to actually grow back a man’s finger that a horse bit off. According to Dr. Eugenio...
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    Inner Ear Hair Cell Regeneration — Maybe We Can Know More

    Thank you very much Erlend. There are reasons for hope in this article.
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    Inner Ear Hair Cell Regeneration — Maybe We Can Know More

    I am not skilled enough to locate the actual article. It sounds interesting. http://phys.org/wire-news/140433911/inner-ear-hair-cell-regeneration-a-look-from-the-past-to-the-fut.html Inner ear hair cell regeneration: A look from the past to the future September 12th, 2013 Since Moffat and...
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    Feedback Tinnitus Talk Audio Player

    Thank you Markku. I like river and cicada.
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    Report on Palm Beach County, FL, resident who received Esteem hearing aid

    Karen, an article in The Palm Beach Post mentioned that he had ringing in his ears since a Beatles concert in 1964. I had an actual newspaper and read that article. However, it costs to read it on the internet. I am very interested to see if the hearing aid helped his tinnitus.
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    Report on Palm Beach County, FL, resident who received Esteem hearing aid

    Report by local ABC affiliate in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Boynton Beach, Florida man who is one of the first 175 or 200 people to receive it. http://www.wpbf.com/news/health/Boynton-Beach-man-touts-revolutionary-hearing-aid/-/8788734/21250678/-/a188jz/-/index.html
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    Marijuana / Cannabis and Tinnitus

    CNN recently aired a special on medical marijuana. It was quite remarkable to see persons with very serious medical conditions helped greatly by marijuana use. I definitely support medical marijuana. Is there anyone who posts here who has had a positive experience with marijuana for their...
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    Success Stories?? Tell Me It Gets Better PLS!

    Jade, I am sorry I screwed up and was associating Auckland with Australia. However, it is a world-class tinnitus clinic. And I hope New Zealand is not too far from you in Australia. It is certainly worth investigating a trip there.
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    Success Stories?? Tell Me It Gets Better PLS!

    Jade, there are some nice sounds on the Tinnitus Talk Audio Player on this website for free.
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    Success Stories?? Tell Me It Gets Better PLS!

    Jade, please check out the link to TRI: http://www.tinnitusresearch.org/ And here is a link to a webpage listing TRI Tinnitus Clinics that includes one in Auckland: http://www.tinnitusresearch.org/en/structure/workgroups_en.php And a link to the University of Auckland Clinic...
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    New University of Michigan Tinnitus Discovery — Signal Timing

    Hudson, thanks for posting this. My tinnitus increases if I yawn, but only for the time it takes to yawn. I wonder if many others experience the same.
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    Regenokine (Orthokine) Treatment: Meniere's Disease “100 Percent Cured” in Germany?

    Molan, thanks for posting this. I was going to post it today if nobody had done so and I have not been in the forum's since Dana White's announcement. I am definitely going to e-mail with some individuals in the medical field involved in tinnitus treatment and ask for their opinion.
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    Light Therapy in Treatment of Tinnitus...

    Bourbon, thanks so much for posting here.
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    Light Therapy in Treatment of Tinnitus...

    Hi carlover. Would you have a link to the new study? Thanks.
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    Returning Hope — Stem Cell Treatment in Asia

    Glad you read the article I posted about advances in programming for cochlear implants. I live about 80 miles from Vanderbilt.
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    Cochlear Implants as a Treatment of Tinnitus

    From 2011 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21756468 CI [cochlear implants] can successfully be used as treatment of severe tinnitus in patients with single-sided deafness and is equally effective for pure tone, narrow band noise, and polyphonic tinnitus. Long-term results show that...
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    Cochlear Implants as a Treatment of Tinnitus

    http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2013/03/high-fidelity/ Imagine suddenly being able to hear the words and tone of the person across the table from you in a crowded restaurant when once you only heard overwhelming noise. Or speaking on the telephone with confidence because what you hear is now crisp...
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    Medications Used for Tinnitus

    i had my soundcure for around 45 days i think.
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    Tinnitus Suppression Following Placement of a Deep Brain Stimulation Electrode

    Very interesting. Thanks for posting.
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    Medications Used for Tinnitus

    I've not tried an MP3 player. The SoundCure almost seemed to make my headnoise worse also. I think setting 3 was white noise and itwas the one I preferred. I think in the next ten years, there will be significant progress on sound therapy for tinnitus.
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    Buzz Kill: Self-Dissolving Tinnitus Treatment Gives New Hope

    Very good article. I also read it a while ago and it is one of the more informative ones I've read. A lot of hope is contained in this article.
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    Medications Used for Tinnitus

    Like the Columbo avatar. I tried the SoundCure and it did nothing for me. I listen to white noise from a cd my otoneurologist gave me.
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    Returning Hope — Stem Cell Treatment in Asia

    I hope your Dad lives to 110 years old. :-) Your advice is sound. I am interested in seeing more results from the HIFU surgery for tinnitus in Europe. However, I would be cautious in undergoing it, knowing that other options may be available in the coming years. Same goes for the vagal...
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    New Marvel Superhero Inspired by Hearing Impaired Boy

    New Marvel superhero inspired by hearing impaired boy The next superhero has a 5-year-old boy to thank for his inception. The story of "Blue Ear" started in spring of last year. Anthony Smith, 5, who has no hearing on his right side and hearing loss on his left, told his mom he no longer...
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    Returning Hope — Stem Cell Treatment in Asia

    The good folks at the Stanford Initiative to Cure Hearing Loss are working on a cure for hearing loss are making progress every year. They recently reported progress being made on a process to image cochlear hair cells. For the stem cell process to work, there must be sufficient imaging...
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    MicroTransponder: Latest News and Research

    http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2013/3/6-22161_Alumnus-Journey-Took-Him-from-the-Bullpen-to-Neuro_article-wide.html?WT.mc_id=NewsHomePage
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    Returning Hope — Stem Cell Treatment in Asia

    I would be highly skeptical. Below is a link to a chapter from a book. The book excerpt was published in Scientific American. It discusses the progress on restoration of hearing through stem cells. The author of the excerpt estimates it will be 20 to 50 years before cochlear hair cells can...
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    Researchers Home in on Biological Ways to Restore Hearing

    http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=researchers-home-in-on-biological-ways-to-restore-hearing&page=2 . . . Research holds the promise that the kind of hearing loss I have may someday be reversible, returning the ear to close to its original pristine condition. Probably not soon...
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    Best Guess on When Tinnitus Will Be Cured?

    Eric, I am doing sound therapy which seems to have helped. My otoneurologist provided me a white noise cd that is very helpful to my type of tinnitus. I am also on waiting list for a transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) study. E-mail me at ogb954@gmail.com. I'll give you more details.
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    Ogahali Lab at Stanford

    Lol. Ok. I screwed up when I read your post. I thought you were speculating 20 years. Let me say this. Last year when I visited a very prominent otoneurologist in the field of tinnitus treatment, I asked him about the possibility of regeneration of cochlear hair cell, and I believe I...
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    Ogahali Lab at Stanford

    And if the 20 years was a guarantee, I would take it in a heartbeat. I'm 48, so I hope to be around 20 years from now. it's exciting that in the next 20 years this may happen. God bless those wonderful people at Stanford working on it.
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    Ogahali Lab at Stanford

    I would speculate that it will be 15 years before this research produces results that be beneficial to significant numbers of people.
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    Best Guess on When Tinnitus Will Be Cured?

    Eric, have you undergone an otoacoustic emission test? It was very helpful to the otoneurologist who is treating me in understanding the reason why the nearly chronic tinnitus in my left ear is far louder than the quieter intermittent tinnitus in my right ear. I would ask the same question...
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    Ogahali Lab at Stanford

    Joejunior, the words "using regenerative strategies that are in active development" are very exciting.
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    Ogahali Lab at Stanford

    http://oghalailab.stanford.edu/research_programs.html "We are, however, working to develop techniques that will allow us to perform research in humans. For example, we are in the process of developing novel optical techniques for in vivo imaging using optical coherence tomography (OCT). The...
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    OHSU in Portland, OR - Worth the Trip?

    I visited the clinic at the University of Antwerp's Hospital (UZA) last year. I would not be comfortable at this time (maybe some other time) writing a lot of details about myself. However, I can certainly say they are on the cutting edge of treating tinnitus through neuromodulation...