Boeing Mesa Arizona Wins Annual Safe-in-Sound Award
This year’s award for innovation in hearing loss prevention goes to Vertical Lift, AH-64 Apache Helicopter of the Boeing Company in Mesa, Arizona.
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NIDCD Awards $972K Grant to Gateway Biotechnology for Tinnitus Drug Development
The award, a Small Business Innovation Research Grant (SBIR), will be used for further research and development for tinnitus prevention and treatment.
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Zeteo Tech Develops Hearing Protection for Military Dogs
The Canine Auditory Protection System, known as CAPS, is designed to prevent short-term hearing loss in military working dogs, which can result from high-decibel noise in training, transport, and operations.
Starkey Livio AI Rechargeable Now Available to Veterans, Active Duty Military, and Indian Health Services
Starkey Hearing Technologies is thrilled to introduce a product that can help give millions of people, their families, and caregivers peace of mind.
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Hearing Aid Sales Increase by 2.5% in First Quarter of 2019
Hearing aid net unit sales in the United States increased by 2.5% during the first quarter (Q1) of 2019, totaling 1,000,653 units—the second time unit volume has ever exceeded 1 million in a quarter.
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Oticon Opn S Now Available Through VA, Department of Defense
Powered by the Velox S platform, the upgraded OpenSound Navigator (OSN) is said to provide a 360° listening experience that is “more effective in supporting the brain to help veterans manage listening to multiple speakers in noisy environments,” according to Oticon.
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Hundreds of Veterans Expected to File Suit Against 3M for Combat Earplugs
In a segment of “CBS This Morning” shown online, Dr Jon LaPook spoke with two veterans who now have partial hearing loss and tinnitus after using the earplugs.
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Oticon to Exhibit in Space #1012 at 2019 AAA Conference, March 27-30
Hearing care professionals looking for knowledge and tools to differentiate their practice, elevate their standard of care, and improve their profit and loss statement can explore tools and resources offered through Oticon Business Development.
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Otoharmonics’ Levo System Now Available to Patients Receiving Care from VA
Otoharmonics Corporation, a US veteran-owned company offering sound therapy for tinnitus management, announced it has been awarded a five-year Federal Supply Schedule Medical Equipment and Supply contract, making Levo available immediately to patients receiving care within the Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Defense, Bureau of Prisons, Indian Heads Services, and Public Health Services.
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Oticon Donates to Organization Providing Homes for Veterans
Oticon is a proud supporter of Homes For Our Troops (HFOT), a privately funded, 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization that builds and donates specially adapted custom homes nationwide for severely injured post-9/11 veterans, to enable them to rebuild their lives.
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Veterans File Lawsuits Against 3M Alleging Combat Earplugs Caused Hearing Problems
Veterans alleging that they have permanent hearing loss and tinnitus as a result of defective combat earplugs sold by 3M—the Maplewood, Minn-based conglomerate corporation—have filed at least 11 lawsuits against the company this month, according to an article in the “Star Tribune.”
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Staff Standpoint: US: 4-Million Hearing Aids in 2018?
Hearing aid net unit sales in the United States increased by 6.2% in the third quarter (Q3) compared to the same period last year, according to statistics generated by the Hearing Industries Association (HIA), Washington, DC.
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New Oticon Opn Styles Now Available Through VA, Department of Defense
With the addition of five new custom styles, including what’s said to be “the smallest hearing aid style Oticon has ever produced,” the expanded Opn family will expand its open sound experience in styles and performance levels to satisfy a wide range of veterans’ hearing needs and preferences.
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Lessons from the Past: Two Influential Articles in the Early History of Audiology
Within a span of 8 months in 1946, two papers dramatically changed the course of audiology and our ideas about hearing aid selection and fitting. James Jerger, PhD, takes a retrospective look at why these papers were so important and what we might learn from their then-controversial positions.
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Will Hearing Aid Sales Top 4 Million Units in 2018?
According to HIA statistics, the US hearing aid market has experienced sales gains of 5.9% and may exceed 4 million hearing aid units dispensed by the end of 2018. Here’s a summary of the US hearing industry statistics through the third quarter of this year, including a look at the most-common styles of hearing aids sold.
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Quinism Foundation Calls for Universal Screening of Canadian Vets for Exposure to Mefloquine
“In 2017, Health Canada required that the patient medication information for mefloquine be updated to warn that in some people, dizziness, vertigo, tinnitus, and loss of balance may become permanent,” said Dr Remington Nevin, executive director of The Quinism Foundation.
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Soundbite Re-emerges as 'Molar Mic', a Military/Rescue Communication Device
What the hearing care field formerly knew as Sonitus Medical’s Soundbite system, a bone-conduction hearing device that resembled a dental bridge, has now re-emerged as Sonitus Technologies and a high-tech communications device called the ‘Molar Mic’ for military and rescue applications.
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Soundbite Re-emerges as ‘Molar Mic’, a Military/Rescue Communication Device
What the hearing care field formerly knew as Sonitus Medical’s Soundbite system, a bone-conduction hearing device that resembled a dental bridge, has now re-emerged as Sonitus Technologies and a high-tech communications device called the ‘Molar Mic’ for military and rescue applications.
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