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Deaf immigrants meet to learn ASL but remain cautious of continued ICE presence in Minnesota

In a brightly painted classroom in Saint Paul last month, 17 adults gathered around long tables, signing with their hands, looking at illustrations of family trees on a screen overhead, ...
NPR

The FDA gives the green light to the first gene therapy for deafness

The decision, while only immediately affecting people born with a very rare form of genetic deafness, is being hailed as a milestone in the quest to treat hearing loss. When Sierra Smith gave birth to ...
The New York Times

New Gene Therapy Enables Children With a Rare Form of Deafness to Hear

The treatment, the first of its kind, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday. “Our baby was born deaf, and now he can hear,” said one parent. By Gina Kolata The Food and Drug ...
CNN

FDA approves first gene therapy for inherited deafness, shown to restore hearing for children with rare condition

The US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the first gene therapy for inherited hearing loss, a one-time treatment that proved to be life-changing for a small number of children in a ...
NPR

Gene therapy for a rare type of deafness shows lasting results

An experimental gene therapy appears safe and highly effective for restoring hearing to people born with a rare form of deafness, researchers reported Wednesday. The study, the largest and longest to ...