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Chicago Musician, Teacher and Tinnitus Support Group Leader
05/26/11 4:23 pm
Like most tinnitus and hyperacusis sufferers, getting one's life back is often a tough road and requires a system of support and understanding. When musician and teacher Joel Styzens could not find a tinnitus support group in Chicago he worked with ATA to start one.
KT Tunstall Describes Her Fight With Tinnitus and Awareness Efforts
05/25/11 9:03 am
Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist KT Tunstall, renowned for her live performances and hit song "Hold On", tells the Belfast Telegraph about her tinnitus and efforts to raise hearing loss awareness.
Tinnitus Treatment Outcomes - A Patient's Perspective (Survey)
05/11/11 1:53 pm
"By analyzing outcomes from the patient's perspective, we hope to provide professionals with evidence to convince people to skip many of the treatments that have shown no benefit and move directly to treatments that have proved beneficial. By looking at the progression and amount of time the various treatments were tried, we evaluated the migration from relief of symptoms to management of tinnitus."
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Department of Defense Receives $50 million Congressional Appropriation
04/21/11 12:48 pm
-To Study 19 Conditions Including Tinnitus -
Tinnitus research advocates, Scott C. Mitchell, J.D. and James O. Chinnis Jr. Ph.D., (pictured respectively to the right) recently participated in the evaluation of research proposals submitted to the Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP) sponsored by the Department of Defense. Mitchell and Chinnis were nominated for participation in the peer review process by the American Tinnitus Association (ATA) in Portland, Oregon. As a consumer reviewer, they were full voting members of the scientific peer review panel, along with prominent scientists and clinicians.
The Fiscal Year 2009 (FY09) PRMRP received a $50 million congressional appropriation to fund research across 19 topic areas including tinnitus. This is the second consecutive year that tinnitus research proposals have been eligible for funding under this program.
Tinnitus Research gets a BOOST from the National Institutes of Health
04/21/11 12:36 pm
At the forefront of ATA's advocacy efforts, are increasing federal research budgets for tinnitus research. We are thrilled to report to you that because of ATA legislative efforts, the National Institutes of Health; specifically the National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) has expanded their tinnitus research portfolio significantly over the past few years.
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onsored by the Department of Defense. Mitchell and Chinnis were nominated for participation in the peer review process by the American Tinnitus Association (ATA) in Portland, Oregon. As a consumer reviewer, they were full voting members of the scientific peer review panel, along with prominent scientists and clinicians.
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