According to researchers at Henry Ford Hospital, making hearing aids less expensive does not effectively motivate adults to purchase hearing aids at a younger age or before their hearing worsens. However, those adults with full insurance coverage are more likely to purchase hearing aids.
Read MoreTesting for hearing loss and finding an audiologist are getting more mobile. NowiHear.com, a division of AuDNet Inc, has released a NowiHear app for the Android platform. The free app provides consumers with a quick hearing check adapted from the Better Hearing Institute (BHI) revision of the American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery’s “Five-minute Hearing Test.”
Read MoreThe Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) has received four Hermes Creative Awards for its 2010 marketing and communication campaigns.
Read MoreCochlear Americas announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Cochlear Baha 3 Power sound processor, a programmable bone conduction hearing solution for children and adults with conductive hearing loss, mixed hearing loss or single-sided sensorineural deafness.
Read MoreWilliam Demant, parent company of Oticon and Bernafon, has been named as a prime candidate for acquiring the assets of bankrupt HearUSA.
Read MoreThe 27th annual Scott Haug Texas Hill Country Audiology Retreat is scheduled for September 29 to October 2, 2011 and will be held at the TBarM Ranch and Resort in New Braunfels, Tex. This year, the retreat will have a Mardi Gras-Scott theme.
Read MoreReSound addresses how to future-proof a hearing aid with its new configurable BTE.
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The parent group of Phonak, Unitron, Advanced Bionics, and InSound Medical announced preliminary financial results for the 2010/11 year which includes consolidated sales of $1.82 billion–a new record for the company.
Read MoreCharacterizing the announcement as its most significant in the company’s history, the EarQ Group will provide a standard 4-year warranty for all EarQ-labeled hearing devices.
Read MoreSycle.net has announced its system’s integration with CounselEAR.
Read MoreIn 2010, a comprehensive tax bill, HB1221, had repealed the exemption for hearing aid sales, which made hearing aids fully taxable beginning January 1, 2011. The new bill reinstates the sales tax exemption.
Read MoreMay is “Better Hearing & Speech Month,” and to help bring awareness to the cause, ReSound is donating a pair of hearing aids for every additional 10 people who “like” the company’s Facebook page.
Read MoreSenators Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Olympia Snowe (R-Me) today reintroduced the bipartisan Hearing Aid Tax Credit (S 905) with eight original co-sponsors.
Read MoreThe Starkey Hearing Foundation is joining forces with recording artist and actress Miley Cyrus to promote the “Listen Carefully” campaign for May’s “Better Hearing and Speech Month.”
Read MoreWith June named as Men’s Health Month, Oticon is encouraging men to consider their hearing health with a 2-month awareness campaign called “Let’s Hear It for His Health.”
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