Editing Usher Syndrome
September 18 is Usher Syndrome Awareness Day. To bring attention to the debilitating condition that renders patients blind and deaf, Mass Eye and Ear researchers ...
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Smell Loss and COVID-19: What’s the Latest?
Some of the most common questions Focus readers ask are about COVID-19 and long-term smell loss. We asked an expert to weigh in on the ...
Harvard’s Eardrum-Restoring PhonoGraft Enters Commercial Development
3D-printed graft developed by researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute, Harvard SEAS, and Mass Eye and Ear to be commercialized by Desktop Health, following the startup’s ...
Mending a Path Back to the Pool
After nearly a decade of enduring chronic ear infections from a perforated eardrum, Delia Binette almost had to give up the sport she loves most: ...
The Show Must Go On
Street performer Vivian Luo’s unexpected encounter with a rare eye infection began with a new pair of contact lenses. Her treatment at Mass Eye and ...
Hearing Devices Find a Friend
The Pediatric Hearing Loss Mentorship Program at Mass Eye and Ear uses peer mentorship to help children with hearing loss reduce the stigma that’s often ...
Q+A with Dr. Roy Xiao, CORE Grant Recipient
In the past decade, 16 residents from the Mass Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery (OHNS) Combined Residency Program have been awarded ...
Which Cataract Lens is Right for Me?
Patients who need cataract surgery can choose from several types of intraocular lenses. Focus asked Nandini Venkateswaran, MD, a member of the Cornea and Refractive ...
Hyperbaric Healing
Bob Cancalosi, a former General Electric executive who underwent treatment for a rare form of head and neck cancer, recently returned to Mass Eye and ...
Low Vision Patient’s Journey to Vision Rehabilitation Researcher
A graduate of the Employment Now Initiative, formerly Project SEARCH, a professional job and life skills program for visually impaired adults, shares her experience and ...
What Your Eyes Tell Doctors About Overall Health
Retina specialist Nimesh Patel, MD, explains the how certain eye symptoms might provide clues to what is happening in other systems and organs in the ...
Experts Push for Legislation to Save More Babies’ Hearing
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is the leading non-genetic cause of hearing loss in children. For June’s National CMV Awareness Month, Focus spoke with Michael Cohen, MD, and ...
