Recent content by IYIiKe

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    AudioCure AC102 to Treat Hearing loss and Tinnitus

    All of these studies focus on fresh onset. How ridiculous. As if everyone will have immediate access to an emergency room after a noise event, and the right treatments will just happen to be available. It comes across as lazy research design. There really should be ethics committee discussions...
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    Rinri Therapeutics

    Also, there are studies on residual hearing outcomes after cochlear implant procedures. If you can show improvement following implantation, that evidence already speaks for itself. In essence, the placebo effect has already been accounted for.
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    Osia 2 Sound Processor Featured in Tampa Bay Times: Small Skull-Attached Device May Help Mask Tinnitus

    There are many such electrical devices currently in the pre-trial or trial phase. The Billy Mays of tinnitus treatment, Dr. Djailian, has a device in development. I am not enthusiastic about it, as I view him as a less effective copycat of existing tinnitus treatments and more interested in...
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    Mass General Brigham Have Identified New Biomarkers for Tinnitus

    I'm missing "the so what" part.
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    New University of Michigan Tinnitus Discovery — Signal Timing

    Ah yes, and the department will just move on seamlessly, as hundreds take “resignation,” programs and benefits are cut, and those who can find employment elsewhere, usually the most qualified, do so. Human Resources, supporting agencies, and other parts of the system being in complete disarray...
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    2024 US Presidential Election

    Drastically understated, to the tune of a cost of 4.5 trillion? I cannot wait to hear the jokes about which million or billion dollar programs are going to be tossed onto the funeral pyre in the name of tax cuts. Maybe there will be a statement about the estate tax, even though it does not...
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    New University of Michigan Tinnitus Discovery — Signal Timing

    The FDA is cutting staff and losing reputable researchers left and right. The top vaccine researcher just resigned because the head of the agency literally believes in discredited pseudoscience and is pushing the FDA to adopt it. The person in charge is an anti-vaxxer and the kind of person who...
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    NeuroVR Device: Neurofeedback to Treat Tinnitus

    It is sad that this is receiving funding.
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    SBUTT (Fleeting Tinnitus) Triggered by Neck / Jaw Position

    I really wish there were more research on this. There could be potential consequences for those who experience these attacks frequently, which might lead to a better understanding of tinnitus.
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    New University of Michigan Tinnitus Discovery — Signal Timing

    Anyone who believes RFK Jr. is a positive influence on HHS or that gutting NIH research, including limiting the G&A rate of university grants that support labs of all kinds, bodes well for tinnitus research is not only wrong but severely misinformed. Or maybe they have a brain worm. I invite...
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    New University of Michigan Tinnitus Discovery — Signal Timing

    It's really bad. I think we have to seriously consider that the U.S. will no longer be the first country to produce a Susan Shore device.
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    Eustachian Tube Balloon Dilation for ETD: Ask Me Anything

    No, Mirtazapine helped me settle my sleep schedule. I am about four months in. The biggest issue has been craving sweets and gaining a bit of weight, but overall, it has been completely worth it. No increase in perception due to Mirtazapine.
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    Elon Musk’s Neuralink Looking to Treat Tinnitus

    Exclusive: FDA staff reviewing Musk’s Neuralink were included in DOGE employee firings, sources say Yeah, it’s a no from me, dawg. Real-life Lex Luthor.
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    Neurosoft Bioelectronics: Implantable Electrodes to Treat Tinnitus

    Oh, great. A tool for a tinnitus sufferer, likely already borderline OCD because of their condition -- to further obsess over :D