New University of Michigan Tinnitus Discovery — Signal Timing

[Pixelito]

I'm encouraged by the potential, but at the same time, I'm a bit floored by the timeline.

What have they been doing for the past two years?

 

[tobyharrixon]

I'm encouraged by the potential, but at the same time, I'm a bit floored by the timeline.

What have they been doing for the past two years?

Making a presentation...

 

[BadNeighbors]

There has been a drop in the number of FDA approvals. While the decrease could be due to many factors, the rate of delays in meeting review deadlines has risen from 4 percent to 11 percent.

I'm really disappointed that Auricle didn't submit sooner. I wish I understood better why they didn't. I'm afraid that when they finally do submit, the approval process will take longer, and the FDA will have an even larger backlog of applications to work through.

FDA review of drugs is slowing while application delays are growing, analysis finds

The upheaval at the FDA appears to be taking a toll on the pharmaceutical industry, according to a new analysis of key agency metrics.

www.statnews.com

 

[dipp]

I personally also have ETD and spasm issues so I hesitate to get on an airplane. But who knows in 10 years' time lol.

I haven't been on a plane since I developed tinnitus and hyperacusis. Flying to the USA simply wouldn't be an option for me unless I experienced major improvement.

I'm glad your tinnitus doesn't cause major issues when it comes to international travel or planning weekends with friends.

My despair made me look a while ago for ways to travel to the US via boat.

It goes from Southampton to New York. Expensive, takes a long time, and inconvenient, yes, but maybe it's an option.

 

[Kam75]

I have always wondered what would happen to this device if, unfortunately, Susan Shore were to pass away before it was brought to market.

Now that we have learned that more tests need to be carried out, which will take many more years, and given Shore's advanced age, this is a legitimate question.

However, in ten years' time, my "young" life will already be behind me, so the hope I had for this device has largely faded, as it has for many of us.

Fun fact, if I may say so: while rereading my old posts on Tinnitus Talk, I remembered that I wrote a few years ago in this thread that there would be peace between Palestine and Israel before the device was released.

I didn't imagine that peace would come so quickly, but here we are.

 

[UKBloke]

Now that the dust has settled a little further over these past few days, I would like to say that the thing that still p*sses me off perhaps the most about the way this whole situation has played out is the chart below (which I'm finding increasingly difficult to locate online - but maybe that's just me).

The moment UMich released this chart, and then announced that the device worked so well on the Treatment 1 arm that they needed to scrap the Treatment 2 arm, they got themselves clean out of having to answer why it was that those patients who received the sham on Treatment 1 experienced practically no benefit at all receiving the active treatment on the 2nd arm.

In fact, if anything, the chart shows that the loudness level began to tick back up at the end of the active treatment phase on those patients. I mean, it's literally the elephant in the room, and to date, Susan Shore has said nothing (to the best of my knowledge) to actually address this fact.