Tag: Massachusetts Eye and Ear

  • Nation & World

    Hidden hearing loss revealed

    Harvard researchers have found two biomarkers that may help explain why a person with normal hearing struggles to follow conversations in noisy environments.

    4 minutes
    Illustration of an ear getting sound signals.
  • Nation & World

    Letter opposes possible EPA shift

    Almost 100 faculty and leaders from Harvard and its affiliated teaching hospitals are asking the EPA in a letter to withdraw its proposal to increase “transparency” in the science that underlies regulations, saying the rule would harm human health.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    New hope in old viruses

    Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers at Massachusetts Eye and Ear have reconstructed an ancient virus that is highly effective at delivering gene therapies to the liver, muscle, and retina.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Safer cataract surgery at hand

    A new, highly innovative, computer-based simulation tool, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (Mass. Eye and Ear) Cataract Master, bridges the learning gap that residents and ophthalmologists new to phaco must navigate prior to performing actual surgery.

    3 minutes