This guideline aims to improve the quality of essential, routine postnatal care for women and
newborns with the ultimate goal of improving maternal and newborn health and well-being …

As a severe public health issue, hearing loss has caused an increasingly disease burden,
especially in the elderly population. Hearing loss may inevitably induce asymmetric hearing …

Objective Insertion of tympanostomy tubes is the most common ambulatory surgery
performed on children in the United States. Tympanostomy tubes are most often inserted …

Congenital hearing loss affects one in 500 newborns. Sequence variations in OTOF, which
encodes the calcium-binding protein otoferlin, are responsible for 1–8% of congenital …

Pathogenic mutations in the OTOF gene cause autosomal recessive hearing loss (DFNB9),
one of the most common forms of auditory neuropathy. There is no biological treatment for …

Early intervention for newborns who are deaf or hard-of-hearing leads to improved
language, communication, and social–emotional outcomes. Universal physiologic newborn …

Noise exposure is a major cause of hearing loss in adults. Yet, noise affects people of all
ages, and noise-induced hearing loss is also a problem for young people. Sensorineural …

Importance Hearing loss is a global social burden. Early identification of hearing loss missed
by newborn hearing screening tests in the neonatal intensive care unit is crucial. Objective …

Due to high entry barriers, countries might find it daunting to implement the NBS program,
especially those just trying to start it. This review aims to discuss Indonesia's barriers that …

The auditory system provides us with extremely rich and precise information about the
outside world. Once a sound reaches our ears, the acoustic information it carries travels from …