Last year, clinical researchers at the University of Southern California implanted a new auditory brainstem implant (ABI) into four children born without a hearing nerve. Now promising results have been reported last week at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in San Jose, California. Though ABIs have been implanted in children in select centers around the world, there has never been a proper study under the oversight of a regulatory watchdog. The goal of the new study is to show safety of these implants, made by an Australian company called Cochlear, in young children.
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