According to BIHIMA's announcement, the latest UK and Irish hearing instrument Q3 data shows that “the private hearing instrument market is recovering well, with the NHS market picking up at a slower rate.”
Featured NOISE-CON keynote speakers include Dr Lily Wang, University of Nebraska—Lincoln presenting research on restaurant noise and Dr Juliette W. Ioup, University of New Orleans, who will share noise control research on marine mammals in the northern Gulf of Mexico.
A new approach, published in “Cell Reports,” to regenerate inner ear sensory hair cells is said to lay the groundwork for treating chronic noise-induced hearing loss by the company, Frequency Therapeutics, and its co-founders who are drawing on research from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), Harvard Medical School, Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary, and MIT. The program is expected to progress to into human clinical trials within the next 18 months.
VisualEyes is an advanced VNG solution. According to Interacoustics, the new release offers many advantages such as objective torsional eye movement analysis, integrated VORTEQ sensor protocols, Saccadometry, and integrated EyeSeeCam vHIT.
“The Minneapolis Star-Tribune” reports that over 200,000 people have joined a mass tort against 3M, alleging that Aearo’s Combat Arms earplugs “were knowingly defective, imperceptibly loosening and leaking in noise.” The Combat earplugs were acquired by 3M as part of its $1.2 billion purchase of Aearo Technologies in 2008.
Nearly 6 million patients globally are diagnosed with a cancer each year in which first-line therapy potentially includes highly toxic, platinum-based chemotherapies. While the treatment may lead to hearing loss, ringing in the ears, numbness in hands and feet, and other side effects, it is the only proven cure for the vast majority of testicular cancer patients.
Younger generations are moving away from just using a credit card and instead opting for a line of credit specifically for healthcare or retail purchases. Utilizing patient financing in your hearing care office is a great way to get ahead of these buying preferences.
Whisper may have a quiet name, but it could reverberate loudly in the hearing healthcare industry. Launched by an impressive group of AI, Silicon Valley, and hearing care executives, Whisper features an external brain for the dedicated processing of sound, a subscription-based system, and regular software-based upgrades for consumers.
Starkey announced that its Livio Edge AI hearing aids and Thrive Care App have each earned first place in their respective categories in the 2020 Hearing Technology Innovator Awards.