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.
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.
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.
MED-EL USA announced that Kenzi Cayton, 8, from Vancouver, Wash, was named the US winner of the...
Read More
Cochlear Limited (ASX: COH), a company that specializes in implantable hearing solutions,...
Read More
MED-EL USA announced that the new SONNET 2 audio processor is now available. Because MED-EL...
Read More
By Jack Wang, News Officer, University of Chicago For families with deaf children, a cochlear...
Read More
Many hearing loss patients are cochlear implant candidates, but few use this technology that could...
Read More
Cochlear Limited (ASX: COH), an implantable hearing solutions company, announced the US Food and...
Read More
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.
Read More
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.”
Read More
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.
Read More
The book describes major advances in our understanding of the pathogenic processes underlying various forms of hearing loss and the emergence of treatments for deafness.
Read More
The survey findings illustrate the significance of hearing on families and life events: 64% of respondents said that hearing “I love you” from a partner or family member would not be the same if they couldn’t hear; this was the most mentioned life event, according to MED-EL’s survey.
Read More
Families, children, and individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing, and organizations across the United States will commemorate BHSM and raise awareness about communication disorders, available hearing technology, treatments, and communication outcomes for people who are deaf and hard of hearing.
Read More
The procedure involves inserting a device directly into the brain to stimulate hearing pathways, bypassing the cochlea and auditory nerve that have not developed properly.
Read More
The vision of this new grant project is to implant an electrode array directly into the auditory nerve. This approach not only provides access to the hearing pathway for those who cannot be implanted into the cochlea, but may also improve activation of the auditory pathway to the brain that could be helpful for hearing in noisy environments and music.
Read More
The contest challenged children from around the world aged 6-12 years old to create an invention to improve the quality of life for people living with hearing loss.
Read More