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Article: Univ. of Buffalo, military collaborate on design, testing of first drug to prevent deafness.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- January 7, 2004
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2004 JAN 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Six hundred marines at Camp Pendleton in California will undergo 2 weeks of war games in the coming months armed with a new weapon: a drug designed to protect their hearing from the destructive decibels of battle.
For the Marines, it's an opportunity to take part in the fight against noise-induced hearing loss in the military and in society in general
For researchers at the University at Buffalo's Center for Hearing and Deafness, it's a chance to put to the ultimate test a drug they studied for more than 8 years in the laboratory and tested successfully in animals.
The drug to be tested is ...