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Long reads on sound, waves and healing — reported, sourced, and written to be read twice.
Ultrasound opens the brain’s barrier to Alzheimer’s drugs in tiny trials
About 260 people with Alzheimer’s have had the procedure across 27 studies, none of them randomized, and the most striking result so far comes…
Histotripsy breaks up liver tumors with sound, and the trials show where it stands
The pivotal trial hit 95% of its targets, but its one-year tumor control reads 63% or 90% depending on how the scans are judged.
Gene therapy for deafness now targets its most common genetic cause
After April’s approval for a gene behind about 1% of congenital deafness, a Cambridge trial is dosing 10 children with GJB2 variants, and its…
Thirteen unresponsive ICU patients changed a tone using thought alone
In a Columbia study of 41 brain-injured patients who could not move or speak, a third shifted a beep’s pitch through bedside EEG, and…
Hearing-aid users died less often in a 64,000-person, four-country study
Across Australia, Iceland, the US and Norway, people with hearing loss who wore hearing aids had a 9 to 15% lower risk of death,…
Pink noise cost sleepers 19 minutes of REM in a Penn lab
A week of sleep-lab nights with 25 adults found that the steady hiss sold as a sleep aid trimmed dream sleep, and that foam…
The 40 Hz Alzheimer’s bet gets its verdict before year end
Cognito Therapeutics’ 670-patient HOPE trial of a flickering, humming headset reads out by December, and every efficacy number so far comes from 76 people.
Sound baths are everywhere in 2026, and the science is still small
From a Seattle cathedral nap concert to office wellness hours, singing-bowl sessions have gone mainstream on studies of about 50 people and an explanation…