Sentences with phrase «deafness cases»

He has a vast amount of experience in dealing with all different types of personal injury claims, but mainly specialises in dealing with compensation claims relating to injuries at work including industrial deafness cases and asbestos related diseases as well as workplace accidents.

At least 50 percent of these deafness cases are due to genetic causes.

«There are still a considerable number of unsolved inherited deafness cases, despite the use of NGS,» Prof. Avraham concludes.

Not exact matches

Hickson documented his assertion with specific cases: Complete cures were claimed as to pain, rheumatism, ear discharge, goiter, severe headaches, and blood poisoning (p. 118); blindness, paralysis, deafness, possession by evil spirits, asthma, stammering, and curvature of the spine (p. 128); palsy, dumbness, and mental deficiency (p. 151); deformed feet and legs made almost entirely normal (p. 152); «the healing of sin - sick souls» and «the healing of the body» (p. 168); partial paralysis, paralysis, infantile paralysis, rheumatoid arthritis, neuritis, St. Vitus's dance, epilepsy, and mental disorders (pp. 182 - 183).»

This failing is less a case of indifference or hostility, I think, than it is of moral tone deafness.

In rare cases, severe jaundice can cause seizures or lead to deafness, cerebral palsy or serious developmental delay.

In this case, the baby may be affected by cerebral palsy, different kinds of brain damage, and even deafness.

Untreated tumors can grow, causing deafness in the affected ear and in rare cases be fatal.

Two years ago, a French group found that mutations in the human version are associated with Usher syndrome type 1B, a condition that accounts for 4 % to 10 % of all cases of inherited deafness, but is associated with blindness as well.

But the same approach might work for other dominant forms of inherited deafness, which account for around a fifth of cases.

They chose TMC1 because it is a common cause of genetic deafness, accounting for 4 to 8 percent of cases, and encodes a protein that plays a central role in hearing, helping convert sound into electrical signals that travel to the brain.

The Southampton team believes these new results support the case for national governments to fund universal newborn hearing screening programs that increase the rates of early confirmation of hearing difficulties in the many developed and developing countries where screening programs for deafness are currently under discussion, but not yet adopted as national policy.

The find, described in the February issue of Nature Genetics, could eventually lead to a genetic test for Branchio - oto - renal (BOR) syndrome, which occurs in one in 10,000 births and accounts for 2 % of cases of childhood deafness.

Recently, clinical geneticists reported that faulty copies of a gene called Cx 26 cause about 35 % of all cases of deafness.

In case of a genetic mutation, the normal functioning of the mitochondria is disrupted and it results in a variety of problems, including diabetes, muscular dystrophy, deafness, dementia and heart disease.

In rare cases, the disease can inflame the brain, spinal cord or other tissues or cause deafness.

Extreme cases can cause seizures, reduced muscle tone, breathing problems, balance problems, deafness, blindness, and candida infection.

There are no documented cases currently of the piebald gene in OEB causing deafness.

In extreme cases, they can cause a rupture of the ear drum, which may lead to seizures and deafness.

Potential owners do need to be aware of what their new puppy can inherit and in the case of the Boston Huahua it can include patellar luxation, weepy eye problems, allergies and deafness.

In extreme cases, they can cause a rupture of the ear drum, and may lead to seizures and deafness.

Double merles are highly likely to suffer from eye or ear deformities (in some cases both) which at the most extreme can result in complete blindness and deafness.

The prevalence of all types of deafness in the general dog population is low, reported to be 2.56 to 6.5 cases per 10,000 dogs seen at veterinary school teaching hospitals, but these data predate the availability of hearing testing devices and so are much lower that actual values.

In this case the deafness is neither dominant nor recessive, but is linked to a dominant gene that disrupts pigmentation and as a secondary effect produces deaf dogs.

In terms of adult cats, in a lot of cases hearing loss or deafness occurs due to age - related issues.

The boxer with 1/3 or more of his coat white is prone to suffering deafness; this is in an estimated 18 % of the cases.

American cocker spaniels (and especially English cocker spaniels) have been reported with cases of congenital deafness.

During the 1980s, we were responsible for pursuing court cases that led to the National Deafness Scheme and compensation for hundreds of thousands of workers.

She has experience in disease cases, including HAVS, deafness and stress claims.

Maisonneuve — Face the Music — Tim Falconer — In case you think that the Spanish team and the rest of us are just tone deaf, I offer up this article on «the surprising science of tone deafness,» or amusia.