A genetic test to determine if a newborn is at risk of becoming deaf after being treated with a common antibiotic has been recommended for use within the NHS under new draft guidance. Clinical ...

Everybody has their strengths and weaknesses. In Claire Rehfuss’s case, her weakness might be singing. She and Derek Xiao learned that the hard way in the latest episode of The Amazing Race Season 34, ...

A deaf man wrongly believed he had HIV for two days due to the lack of an interpreter while receiving test results at a ...

When I tell my partner, friends or family that I’m a terrible singer, nobody says “What? We’ve never noticed!” or reassures ...

Pinpointing the exact genetic cause of inherited deafness has always involved sequencing one gene at a time, a process that can take up to a year and cost roughly $1,000 per gene. It would cost around ...

More than 180 babies a year in the UK could be saved from permanent and profound deafness thanks to the world’s first genetic test used in an emergency setting. The bedside test has undergone a 'real ...

Occasionally, children go deaf as a result of antibiotic treatment. Now a rapid genetic test has been launched to identify those who are vulnerable to such ear damage, so that alternative antibiotics ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The debate over the citizenship question is just the latest controversy that has surrounded the questionnaire since it began in 1790. That first census only asked if respondents were ...

This week, the Western Cape Department of Mobility showed off an evolution of the digital testing system it revealed back in May. Working together with the Breede Valley Municipality and the National ...