Archive for December, 2008
The first of January can be a fresh start, a grownup do-over. It can be the clean slate on which resolutions are written, the clean plate off which black-eyed peas are eaten.
SAN FRANCISCO -- A 3-year-old Iraqi boy whose hearing was destroyed by a missile blast in the Iraq war was greeted at San Francisco International Airport Wednesday morning by spectators, balloons, TV cameras and many of those responsible for initiating the grassroots effort that brought him to the Bay Area for reparative ear surgery and rehabilitation.
A 3-year-old Iraqi boy whose hearing was destroyed by a missile blast in the Iraq war was greeted at San Francisco International Airport Wednesday morning by spectators, balloons, TV cameras and many of those responsible for initiating the grassroots effort that brought him to the Bay Area for reparative ear surgery and rehabilitation.
SAN FRANCISCO - Cheers rose Wednesday morning when 3-year-old Mustafa Ghazwan came through the security gates at San Francisco airport.
ROGERS -- Michelle and Matt Puryear thought something was wrong. Claire, their baby daughter, wasn't responding to sound.
Tests show that certain MRI machines may demagnetize the magnets used in cochlear implants to couple external and implanted components of these hearing devices, according to a report in the December issue of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery.
A 3-year-old Iraqi boy whose hearing was destroyed when a U.S. missile struck his next-door neighbor's house last year will arrive in San Francisco to undergo restorative surgery.
A 3-year-old Iraqi boy whose hearing was destroyed when a U.S. missile struck his next-door neighbor's house last year will arrive in San Francisco Wednesday to undergo restorative surgery.
ST. LOUIS -- Brooklyn Gratzer looked at her father, who wears a hearing aid like her. She put her hand by her ear like she was grabbing a switch and twisted it several times.
ST. LOUIS -- Brooklyn Gratzer looked at her father, who wears a hearing aid like her. She put her hand by her ear like she was grabbing a switch and twisted it several times.
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