Vanishing Vertigo

New device restores balance to the impaired.

By Lindsay Carswell
Mar 31, 2006 6:00 AMNov 12, 2019 6:21 AM

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When Fred Kawabata contracted shingles in 1997, naturally he was concerned. But the last thing he expected was for the virus to permanently knock his sense of balance off kilter, and when the infection attacked the vestibular nerves in his ear, that's what happened.

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