[China] - Age-related hearing loss linked to protein deficiency, study discovers

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Scientists have discovered a key mechanism behind age-related hearing loss, and they say a common oral medication could delay its
progression. In a study of crab-eating macaques, the team from China and the United States found that a gradual deficiency in a protein
vital to receptor cells in the ear was a characteristic of cochlear ageing in primates. The researchers also found that it was possible to
slow down age-related hearing loss in the monkeys by using a common diabetes medication called...