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FDA Approves First Gene Therapy for Inherited Deafness: What Otarmeni Means for Patients, Medicine, and Deaf Culture
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FDA Approves First Gene Therapy for Inherited Deafness: What Otarmeni Means for Patients, Medicine, and Deaf Culture

Introduction The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first FDA gene therapy for inherited deafness, a one-time treatment that restored measurable hearing in 80% of evaluable pediatric patients during clinical testing. The therapy, marketed as Otarmeni (lunsotogene parvec-cwha), targets a specific genetic cause of profound hearing loss tied to mutations in the OTOF...