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Starkey Hearing Technologies Introduces Smartest, Smallest Rechargeable Hearing Device
February 5, 2018
Starkey Hearing Technologies introduces smallest rechargeable hearing device which was announced Jan. 4 at Starkey’s Hearing Innovation Expo in Las Vegas. The product is now available to consumers t... Read More
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Considerable Gap Exists in US Between Having Hearing Loss and Receiving Medical Evaluation Treatment
February 5, 2018
Bottom Line: Nearly a third of about 40 million adults in the United States who report hearing difficulties have not seen a specialist for their hearing problems. Read More
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3-D-printed Prosthetic Implants Could Improve Treatment for Hearing Loss
February 3, 2018
RADIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA - CHICAGO - Researchers using CT scans and 3-D printing have created accurate, custom-designed prosthetic replacements for damaged parts of the middle ear, accord... Read More
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CRISPR Therapy Preserves Hearing in Progressive Deafness Model
February 1, 2018
Researchers deliver CRISPR-Cas9 directly into the inner ear hair cells of mice, preventing hearing loss in animal model of genetic progressive deafness. Read More
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Hearing is Believing in Gene Therapy's Promise
January 30, 2018
Rice University's Xue Gao led effort to address genetic hearing loss with gene editing.RICE UNIVERSITY - HOUSTON - Gene editing could someday help people at risk of hearing loss from genetic mutat... Read More
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Hear the World project: App-based Hearing Screenings for 10'000 Children
January 29, 2018
One of South Africa’s biggest problems is still the huge gap between rich and poor. In order to make hearing care accessible for people on low incomes, the Hear the World Foundation is working c... Read More
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Fish Use Deafness Gene to Sense Water Motion
January 28, 2018
Researchers explore aquatic model for human hearing.CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY - Fish sense water motion the same way humans sense sound, according to new research out of Case Western Reserve Uni... Read More
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Nascent Hearing Aid Compatibility Task Force Files First Report with FCC
January 27, 2018
Consumer representatives from the Hearing Loss Association of America, the National Association of the Deaf, and the Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing filed a joint letter with wirel... Read More
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St. Joseph's/Candler Center for Oto-Neurology Announces 39th Annual Neuro-Audiology Seminar - Register Now!
January 26, 2018
Registration is now open for the St. Joseph's/Candler Center for Oto-Neurology 39th Annual Neuro-Audiology Seminar that will take place in Savannah, GA on April 6 - 7, 2018. Read More
Alexa and Siri in our Head: Where Voice Recognition Occurs in the Brain
January 26, 2018
Our personal assistant for voice recognition uses a convolution in the right temporal lobe.MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES - We regularly find ourselves in situations in wh... Read More
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Hear the World Foundation welcomes Prof. Patricia Roush to Advisory Board
January 25, 2018
Hear the World Foundation welcomes Prof. Patricia Roush to Advisory Board.Staefa, Switzerland, January 24, 2018 - Patricia Roush, Professor of Otolaryngology at the University of North Carolina School... Read More
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New Ida Institute and Action on Hearing Loss Partnership Aims to Strengthen Person Centred Hearing Care
January 24, 2018
Denmark, January 22, 2018 -- The Ida Institute and Action on Hearing Loss have formed a partnership to expand opportunities for people with hearing loss to participate directly in the innovation of au... Read More
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Cochlear Americas announces the release of the Baha SoundArc
January 23, 2018
The new non-surgical bone conduction wearing option is designed for children who are not yet eligible or ready for an implant but need the first step to hearing.Centennial, Colo. (January 22, 2018) &n... Read More
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Want to Listen Better? Lend a Right Ear
January 22, 2018
Researchers at Auburn University in Alabama have found that the right ear is the gateway for optimal auditory information processing in both children and adults.ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA - WASHING... Read More
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Is There a Musical Method for Interpreting Speech?
January 20, 2018
Researchers evaluated whether musicians had an advantage in understanding and reciting degraded speech as compared to nonmusicians.ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA - WASHINGTON, D.C. December 7, 2017 --... Read More
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Scientists Identify First Brain Cells that Respond to Sound
January 18, 2018
Discovery could enable early diagnosis of autism and other cognitive deficits.UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE - Some expectant parents play classical music for their unborn babies, hoping to... Read More
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RIT/NTID's Deaf Studies Archive Receives Grant to Digitize Rare Videos About ASL Poetry and Literature
January 17, 2018
Videos capture signed performances of works by poets from Robert Panara to Allen Ginsberg.Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf will digitize and make pub... Read More
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Oticon Brings Oticon Opn with Telecoil, Power Options and Tinnitus SoundSupport to Veterans Affairs Administration
January 17, 2018
Oticon brings Oticon Opn with telecoil, power options and Tinnitus SoundSupport to Veterans Affairs Administration. Read More
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Protein Daple Coordinates Single-Cell and Organ-Wide Directionality in the Inner Ear
January 16, 2018
JAX, Rockefeller research team shows mice lacking Daple show developmental defects in hair cells and bundles.JACKSON LABORATORY - Humans inherited the capacity to hear sounds thanks to structures that... Read More
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Otometrics Leads the Way with Integrated Verification
January 15, 2018
Third major hearing instrument manufacturer can now integrate with Otometrics fitting solution Aurical® to advance integrated verification in hearing instruments for greater efficiency, time-savings... Read More
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