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Editor's Note: The Columbia University study referenced here was led by Keith Diaz, the Florence Irving Associate Professor of Behavioral Medicine at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Columbia University’s Dr. Lawrence Lustig said that although the children in these studies don’t wind up with perfect hearing, “even moderate hearing loss recovery in these kids is pretty astounding.”

“Think if you tied a knot in a thread — nits are the size of that knot,” said Dr. Candace Johnson, an assistant professor of pediatrics and hospital epidemiologist at Columbia University.