Zebrafish May Help Solve Ringing In Veterans’ Ears

Ernest Moore, an audiologist and cell biologist at Northwestern University, developed tinnitus — a chronic ringing and whooshing sound in his ears — twenty years ago after serving in the U.S. Army reserves medical corps. His hearing was damaged by the crack of too many M16 rifles and artillery explosions. He suspects his hearing also suffered from hunting opossum with rifles as a kid on his grandmother’s farm in Tennessee.

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Filed under: Ear, Nose and Throat on May 15th, 2008