Learn more about upcoming training opportunities.

Link: http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs154/1102782899287/archive/1119660959841.html

Webinar seminar to be held Wednesday, 1/221 at 1 pm ET.

Link: http://www.magnetmail.net/actions/email_web_version.cfm?recipient_id=27148845&message_id=8427600&user_id=audiology&group_id=106652&jobid=24936961

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January 15, 2015 Webinar – Starting with the End in Mind: The O.U.R. Children Project

Link: http://www.infanthearing.org/resources_home/events/starting-with-the-end-in-mind.html

A safer version of a potent antibiotic for serious infections that often causes hearing loss has been developed by scientists.

An estimated 20% to 60% of all patients treated with aminoglycoside antibiotics – including newborn babies – experience partial or complete deafness, which is irreversible.

Now researchers have produced a modified version of one of the drugs that works effectively in mice without causing hearing loss or kidney damage, another common side effect.

Link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-2895031/Hearing-loss-linked-drug-safer.html

Some people achieve so much, despite the odds, that they inspire those around them. Vaughn Brown, a deaf-blind percussionist and music educator, is one of those inspiring people.

Link: http://www.columbian.com/news/2015/jan/01/blind-deaf-drummer-vancouver-vaughn-brown/