Hear the World Foundation Donates Cochlear Implants to Children in Vietnam
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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Cochlear Announces FDA Approval for Cochlear Implantation at 9 Months
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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Passings: Renowned ENT Surgeon-Scientist John Niparko, MD
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.
Cochlear Ltd Obtains FDA Approval to Lower Age of Cochlear Implantation
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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Comparing Parent Perceptions to Datalogging Information in Pediatric Cochlear Implant Users
This study found that using datalogging as a tool for counseling parents about their child’s use of and experience with the cochlear implant helps increase wear time, proactively identify technical issues for troubleshooting, and gain new insights into the child’s listening environment and needs. This type of counseling not only provides an objective basis to encourage consistent device use, but also serves as a tool to motivate, reward, or validate parental support of their children’s listening needs.
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Cochlear, Ltd Warns That Demand for Implants May be Slow in China Due to Coronavirus
According to “Reuters,” Cochlear reported underlying profit of A$132.7 million ($88.78 million USD) for the six months ended December 31, slightly above the A$132.1 million it posted a year earlier.
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Advanced Bionics Initiates Voluntary Field Corrective Action; Sonova Reports ‘Strong’ Hearing Instruments Business Results
AB has notified relevant regulatory bodies that it will retrieve un-implanted devices of the initial version of HiRes Ultra and Ultra 3D cochlear implant devices, which are currently superseded by a recently approved new version of the devices.
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Clinical trial for ‘World’s Cheapest Cochlear Implant’ to Take Place in India
India’s Defence Research and Development Orginastion (DRDO) was tasked with developing a lower cost version of the implant, whose imported parts were initially deemed to be cost prohibitive.
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Cochlear Cuts Full-year Profit Forecast
Cochlear, Ltd cut its full-year profit forecast due to a delay in surgeries at hospitals in China...
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Eight-Year-Old Kenzi Cayton Wins MED-EL’s ‘Ideas4Ears’ Competition
MED-EL USA announced that Kenzi Cayton, 8, from Vancouver, Wash, was named the US winner of the...
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Cochlear Reveals Winners of Annual Scholarship Programs
Cochlear Limited (ASX: COH), a company that specializes in implantable hearing solutions,...
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Med-El Releases Sonnet 2 Audio Processor
MED-EL USA announced that the new SONNET 2 audio processor is now available. Because MED-EL...
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A Deaf Child Gained Hearing—then Lost It. Was There a Better Way to Help?
By Jack Wang, News Officer, University of Chicago For families with deaf children, a cochlear...
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Research Indicates ‘Wide Variability’ in Determining Cochlear Implant Candidacy
Many hearing loss patients are cochlear implant candidates, but few use this technology that could...
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Cochlear Osia 2 System Receives FDA Clearance
Cochlear Limited (ASX: COH), an implantable hearing solutions company, announced the US Food and...
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Managing People with Sensorineural and Conductive Unilateral Hearing Loss and Single-Sided Deafness
CROS and BiCROS hearing aids are not the only treatment options for those with unilateral hearing loss. This article reviews other options and potential future avenues for unilateral sensorineural hearing loss and single-sided deafness, as well as for unilateral conductive hearing loss.
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Considering the Benefits of Cochlear Implants
Dennis Van Vliet recently attended the American Cochlear Implant Alliance (ACIA) conference and was reminded that “stepping out of the silo of work that I do every day into another, but related, realm is important to broaden my understanding of the larger discipline.”
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Speech-to-Touch Sensory Device May Help Improve Hearing
In this current proof-of-concept study investigators hypothesized that they would be able to improve speech understanding under challenging conditions by exploiting the ability of the brain to integrate information coming simultaneously from different senses. They designed a minimalistic auditory-to-tactile sensory substitution device (SSD) that transforms low-frequency speech signals into tactile vibrations delivered on two fingertips.
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