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VRS and IP Relay Ten-Digit Number Registration Deadline Advisory
May 20, 2009
Persons with hearing and/or speech disabilities who use VRS and/or IP Relay are reminded, if they have not yet done so, to register with the VRS or IP Relay default provider of their choice as soon as... Read More
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VAMC in Mountain Home Hosts 16th Annual Appalachian Spring Conference
May 19, 2009
The Audiology department at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Mountain Home, TN is hosting its 16th Annual Appalachian Spring Conference on June 11-12, 2009. This conference is sponsored by an Au... Read More
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The Oticon Foundation and AAAF Announce Expanded Partnership on the Marion Downs Lecture in Pediatric Audiology
May 19, 2009
Brad Stach, PhD, chair of the Board of the American Academy of Audiology Foundation (AAAF), has announced that the AAAF will receive a generous grant of over $82,000 from The Oticon Foundation to cont... Read More
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AudiologyOnline Takes You Around the Web in 60 Seconds! - Vol. 5, No. 5
May 19, 2009
AudiologyOnline uses the latest in internet scanning and retrieval technology to find hearing health-related news and web sites from around the world. This information is then compiled and summarized... Read More
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Siemens Hearing Celebrates 10th Annual National Women's Health Week
May 18, 2009
Recommends Four Tips for Women's Hearing Loss Prevention Siemens Hearing Instruments, Inc. (SHI) celebrates the 10th Annual National Women's Health Week, a weeklong observance from May 10 - 16, 2009.... Read More
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Audiologists "Hear" with Their Hearts
May 18, 2009
Audiologists "Hear" with Their Hearts and Generate $50,000 Oticon Donation to American Academy of Audiology Foundation Thousands of hearing care professionals from across the country responded to Otic... Read More
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Researchers Studying Hearing Loss in Adult Animals Find that Auditory Regions of the Brain Convert to the Sense of Touch
May 17, 2009
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine researchers have discovered that adult animals with hearing loss actually re-route the sense of touch into the hearing parts of the brain. In the st... Read More
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The Not-So-Silent Crisis: 49% of North Americans Put their Hearing at Risk Every Week, Yet Majority Go Untested for Years
May 16, 2009
Unitron launches uHear™, a hearing screening test application for the iPhone™ and iPod touch® Despite widespread concern about the impact of hearing loss on their quality of life, 49 p... Read More
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ILAA Announces Scholarship Winners
May 16, 2009
The ILAA Scholarship and Honors Committees and the ILAA Board of Directors are pleased to announce the 2008-2009 winners of the annual Doctoral Scholarship Awards for selected outstanding students in... Read More
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Unlimited Connectivity for Easy Access to the Modern Communication World
May 15, 2009
New Phonak solutions offer intuitive wireless connectivity with mobile phones, TV, MP3 players or computers - Phonak introduces a new range of solutions for unlimited access to the ever-expanding worl... Read More
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Spread the Online News to Give the Gift of Hearing for Better Hearing Month in May
May 14, 2009
Throughout the month of May, the House Ear Institute is celebrating Better Hearing Month with a variety of online programs to raise awareness for hearing loss and the non-profit's mission to alleviate... Read More
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New iPod Listening Study Shows Surprising Behavior of Teens
May 14, 2009
A new study involving iPods and teenagers by the University of Colorado at Boulder and Children's Hospital Boston indicates teenagers who receive pressure from their peers or others to turn down the v... Read More
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Siemens Joins the Hearing Industries Association on Capitol Hill to Promote the Hearing Aid Tax Credit Act
May 13, 2009
Siemens meets with members of Congress in support of the 31.5 million Americans with hearing loss Siemens Hearing Instruments, Inc. will be on Capitol Hill this week promoting the Hearing Aid Tax Cred... Read More
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New 2008 Medicare Fee Schedule Rates for Services July 1 to End of 2008
May 13, 2009
In response to the passage of the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act (MIPPA) of 2008 yesterday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued the following announce... Read More
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Silicone Ear Looks Just Like the Real Thing
May 12, 2009
Surgery at Loyola Makes it Possible to Attach Prosthesis with Magnets - To look at Matthew Houdek, you could never tell he was born with virtually no left ear. A surgery at Loyola University Health Sy... Read More
Research
Can You Hear Me Now? Hearing Loss Not Well Documented in Electronic Medical Records
May 11, 2009
A study looking at the electronic medical records of 100 consecutive people who came to the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary for hearing tests that revealed substantial hearing loss in both ears fo... Read More
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Six Students Bring Home $50,000 Vanier Scholarships
May 10, 2009
Six students from The University of Western Ontario have been selected to receive one of the newest and most prestigious scholarships in Canada - the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. The scholarshi... Read More
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Callier Audiologist Honored for Distinguished Career
May 10, 2009
For the past 37 years, Dr. Ross Roeser, executive director emeritus of the UT Dallas Callier Center for Communication Disorders, has had an extraordinary influence on the field of audiology. As a resu... Read More
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Oticon Pediatrics Announces New Initiative to Support Pediatric-Focused Research
May 9, 2009
Oticon Pediatrics today announced a new initiative to promote and support pediatric-focused clinical research. The Oticon Pediatrics Research Initiative will provide support for US-based audiologists... Read More
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ASHS Bestows Annual AFA Endowed Scholarship
May 8, 2009
A.T. Still University's Arizona School of Health Sciences (ASHS) recently awarded its annual Audiology Foundation of America (AFA) Endowed Student Excellence Award to two of its most outstanding resid... Read More
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