Funding for Tinnitus and Other Hearing Conditions

[jazz]

Here is a recent (September, 2014) full text article about current projects addressing tinnitus and other hearing disorders. It's a good general list and includes some new information that hasn't been posted elsewhere:

http://journals.lww.com/thehearingj...g_Pours_in_for_Investigational_Hearing.1.aspx

 

[valeri]

It's good to read that Autifony remains optimistic
Maybe a silly question but why do they need £2.2 mil for phase 2 trial?
What's so expensive about giving 150 people a handful of pills to take for a month?

 

[attheedgeofscience]

What's so expensive about giving 150 people a handful of pills to take for a month?

In general terms (and not related to Autifony specifically):

• Salary to the doctors and medical staff performing the clinical trial.
• Medical screening (remember it isn't just the 150 people who make it through to the trial; there are a lot who don't and their screening cost also needs to be included).
• Cost of any medical procedures involved in the trial.
• Compensation costs for participants.

 

[valeri]

@attheedgeofscience

Thank you!

 

[hoper]

"No one really knows where tinnitus is caused," Dr. Parker said.

makes me a little bit sad

 

[Andrew]

"No one really knows where tinnitus is caused," Dr. Parker said.

makes me a little bit sad

Yeah my heart sank a bit at that too.

Imagine if they discovered a treatment or cure for Tinnitus and it could cure many people's type of tinnitus but couldn't help your own type. You'd be gutted.

But we have to be optimistic, there's not much point in being anything else

 

[hoper]

maybe they make a accidental find to treatment tinnitus? like it was at penicillin

 

[OptimusPrimed]

I would encourage everyone to donate to the Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center and the Stanford Initiative to cure hearing loss. I still think that the cure to tinnitus rests with functional hair cell restoration.