If you woke up one morning and found you couldn't see out of one eye, odds are you'd call the eye doctor immediately—or even go to the emergency room. But we don't tend to treat sudden hearing loss in ...

Optical coherence tomography (OCT), a tool routinely used to diagnose and plan treatment for eye diseases, has now been modified to collect images of the inner ear. A proof-of-concept study led by ...

To hear a sound, auditory signals travel through a person’s ear, where they are transformed into vibrations that swirl through fluid in the cochlea, a spiral, snail-like structure in the inner ear.