The latest issue of Inside, the NIDCD newsletter for health professionals and the public, is now available online. Check out these new stories plus other NIDCD highlights, meetings and events, and new resources.

• Research on Balance Therapy Goes Virtual
  With a grant from NIDCD, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center researchers have established a Medical Virtual Reality Center to study how people maintain balance and to identify potential therapies for balance problems. Their studies are advancing the understanding of balance, including components of good balance and factors that lead to poor balance.
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• NIDCD to Commemorate 20th Anniversary
  NIDCD will be celebrating its 20th anniversary on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008, with a symposium highlighting two decades of scientific research accomplishments supported by the NIDCD. The program begins at 8:30 a.m. at the Natcher Conference Center on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.
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• Multicenter Clinical Trial Compares Effectiveness, Side Effects of Common Treatments for Sudden Deafness
  NIDCD-funded scientists at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, and 15 other sites around the United States, are conducting the largest effort to date to compare two popular treatments for a form of hearing loss that strikes suddenly and that is potentially curable if treated early.
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Read the entire Spring issue.