Hearing impairment increases economic inequality

HEARING IMPAIRMENT CAUSED BY WAR

120 cases of Iranian soldiers complaining of hearing loss, were studied over a period of three years at the Ghaem Medical Center in Mashad,Iran. There was adequate information in III cases that their engagement in different types of explosions had caused their hearing impairment. The following aspects were evaluated: 1- Categorization of their hearing impairment. 2- The otoscopic findings...

DFNA5: hearing impairment exon instead of hearing impairment gene?

BACKGROUND Three mutations in the DFNA5 gene have been described in three families with autosomal dominant non-syndromic hearing impairment. Although these mutations are different at the genomic DNA level, they all lead to skipping of exon 8 at the mRNA level. We hypothesise that hearing impairment associated with DFNA5 is caused by a highly unusual mechanism, in which skipping of one specific ...

Economic inequality and economic growth

The paper enquires into the relationship between economic inequality and economic growth, but different from others, it also studies the relationship between inequality and economic growth in the situation where consideration of effect of factor movement is included. The paper tends to answer the questions such as whether inequality should be eradicated completely. Panel data models are used fo...

Peri-Operative Hearing Impairment

Peri-operative hearing impairment is a poorly reported morbidity following any type of anaesthesia. We report a case where the patient developed temporary hearing impairment after a gynaecological surgery. This recovered in a couple of week time. The causes of such hearing impairment in various types of anaesthesia are discussed.

Treatment of Hearing Impairment