Published in “Ear and Hearing” the paper presents a new method for the prediction of speech perception for individual recipients, providing a methodology that could make patient trials more efficient, potentially leading to implants that are personalized to an individual’s listening capability.
The tool allows adults with hearing aids who are struggling to hear to learn if they may benefit from a cochlear implant. The tool aims to help participants, particularly in the aging adult population, compare their hearing performance with hearing aids to people with a cochlear implant, and depending on their results, to seek further hearing healthcare advice to treat their loss.
The Keck School of Medicine at USC in Los Angeles has announced the sudden and tragic passing of John K. Niparko, MD, who led the USC Tina and Rick Caruso Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery.
Hear the World Foundation reports that the success of the CI project in Vietnam is largely owed to its project partner: The Global Foundation For Children With Hearing Loss.
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The latest cochlear implant from MED-EL incorporates a “revolutionary design change” that allows the special internal magnet to rotate with the magnetic force from the MRI, making surgical removal of the magnet or a head wrap unnecessary.
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The approval of the Cochlear Nucleus Kanso 2 Sound Processor, Nucleus 7 Sound Processor for Nucleus 22 Implant recipients, and Custom Sound Pro fitting software reflects Cochlear’s “ongoing commitment to innovation in hearing technology, providing access to smartphone connectivity and helping to improve hearing performance, and enhancing the cochlear implant fitting experience for hearing health professionals.”
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If approved by the FDA, the Acclaim would be the “first-of-its-kind cochlear implant without any external components to offer unique benefits to users and hopefully increase cochlear implant adoption and user compliance across the globe.”
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According to Plural’s announcement, these updates bring new features including fully rewritten chapters and up-to-date research on cochlear implant devices and assessment “that will benefit students and clinicians alike.”
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These models will ultimately enable development of next-generation programming strategies that rely on these computational simulations of implant performance to find programming settings that greatly improve sound quality for cochlear implant users compared to the traditional programming approach.
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HRF President Geoff Plant announced that the organization is one of 130 local nonprofits to receive grants of $100,000 to $500,000 each through the Cummings Foundation’s $20 Million Grant Program. The Woburn-based organization was chosen from a total of 738 applicants during a competitive review process.
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The research and support in practice by trained hearing health professionals provided the foundation to approve the indication be lowered to 9 months, along with the considerable developments in technology and evolving speech coding strategies in modern day cochlear implant devices.
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The article estimates that Cochlear’s costs, including legal fees and interest, could exceed $750 million.
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FX-322 is Frequency’s lead product candidate, designed to regenerate auditory sensory hair cells in the cochlea and improve hearing in patients with sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL).
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To be able to study the blood vessels in the inner auditory organ, the researchers used a synchrotron system. The system, which is one of eight in the world, is as large as a football pitch and accelerates particles with very high energy. This makes it possible to create pictures of the smallest parts of the inner ear.
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Remote Check is designed to be a convenient, at-home testing tool that allows Cochlear recipients with a Cochlear Nucleus 7 Sound Processor to complete a series of hearing tests from their compatible iOS device using the Nucleus Smart App.
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According to the article, pediatric surgeries to correct hearing problems have already resumed in China, mostly in the areas outside Hubei province, where the coronavirus was most prevalent.
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Using 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging, researchers found that patients with asymmetrical hearing loss have reduced glucose metabolism in parts of the brain stem and primary auditory cortex.
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This approval “helps ensure children born deaf have earlier access to a cochlear implant which can provide them with the hearing capabilities to develop speech and language at a trajectory similar to their hearing peers.”
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