Tag: baby health

A New Kind of Hearing Test Looks at the Eyes

Our eyes involuntarily dilate in response to sound, which means they offer a potential new way to test hearing. In 1998, University of Oregon researcher Avinash Singh Bala was working with barn owls in an Institute of Neuroscience lab when the birds’ eyes caught his attention. The usual research done in the lab, led by…


Pandemic Babies Raise Worrying Questions

Babies born after March 11, 2020, will have only known a world in the grip of a pandemic. They may never have met anyone who isn’t their parent, or they may only ever have seen their grandparents from a distance. They certainly will not have had the same opportunities to interact with other children as…