From the Editor: Happy New Year - Lend Us Your Ears!

Wishing You The Very Best in 2007. The new year is now in full swing and hopefully you have converted to writing 2007 on all of your audiograms and reports. I want to thank you for your support in 2006 and let you know that we have some great things planned in 2007.

HJ/AO Survey - Lend Us Your Ears. The annual survey held in conjunction with The Hearing Journal is in full swing at AO. This year we are asking some interesting questions related to brand loyalty in hearing aids. If you have not already - take the survey today!

www.audiologyonline.com/news/hj_survey.asp

Contributing Editors. We have some great items from our Contributing Editors, take a look at the two most recent publications:

• Robert Fifer, Ph.D., Reimbursement Issues for 2007 and Coding QNA
  
  
• Susan Scollie, Ph.D., DSL version v5.0: Description and Early Results in Children

Around the Web in 60 Seconds. The current edition of "Around the Web" (ATW) has a lot of "too loud" topics. Movies, TV commercials, department stores and toys are all too loud. A solution - why not build yourself a pair of noise cancelling earphones? Does folic acid really slow down age related hearing loss? Finally, a helpful resource on flies and directional microphones and the answer to the question, "Is U2's Bono named after a hearing aid?" Read the latest edition of ATW.

Until Next Month. Please take time view the latest AO news and information links listed to the right of this email and on our home page, and as always, thanks for reading.

Best regards,

Paul Dybala, Ph.D. - Audiologist
President & Editor-in-Chief, Audiology Online