Cochlear Advocates for Hearing Health in Washington D.C. Ahead of World Hearing Day
Cochlear assembled a team of hearing experts to emphasize the importance of hearing health for policy makers in Washington D.C.
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HLAA Announces Fall 2020 Virtual Walk4Hearing Events
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Walk4Hearing team at HLAA wants to make sure that everyone stays safe and healthy. Walk Days will be celebrated online and participants will walk with their family or as a team in their neighborhoods.
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Cochlear Limited Announces Release of Baha SoundArc
The Baha SoundArc was designed to provide children with conductive hearing loss, mixed hearing loss, or single-sided sensorineural deafness (SSD) with the hearing performance and amplification they need to facilitate language development on par with their hearing peers.
Texas Music Festival to Host Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing Accessible Concert in May
In recognition of May’s Better Hearing & Speech Month, the Good Vibrations Music & Arts Festival (GVMAF) will host the first fully-encompassing deaf and hard-of-hearing accessible concert on May 20, 2017 at the 1850 Settlement in San Antonio, Texas. Ticket sales and festival commissions will benefit Texas-based nonprofit, Aid the Silent.
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New Methods Being Developed for Predicting Speech Intelligibility in Noise
Prof Dorothea Kolossa and Mahdie Karbasi from the research group Cognitive Signal Processing at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have developed a method for predicting speech intelligibility in noisy surroundings.
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Cochlear Supports Hearing Health Awareness
Cochlear is donating funding to support and promote CELEBRATE SOUND Don’t Walk in Silence events.
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Cochlear Launches Slim Modiolar Electrode for Cochlear Implants
Cochlear Limited announces the launch of the Cochlear Nucleus Profile Implant with Slim Modiolar Electrode (CI532), designed to preserve hearing structures, boost hearing performance, and be easier for surgeons to use.
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Nucleus Cochlear Implants Now Have Access to MRI
Cochlear Limited reports FDA approval of Nucleus implants for MRI up to 3.0T with magnet removal, and with use of an implant Bandage and Splint Kit, the implants are approved for 1.5T MRI with magnet in place.
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Cochlear Debuts Online Resource for Parents of Kids with Hearing Loss
One to six in 1,000 children in the US are born with severe to profound hearing loss. Parents of these children need information and support, which Cochlear helps provide via IWantYoutoHear.com.
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FDA Clears Smart Bone Conduction Sound Processor
Cochlear Limited received FDA clearance of the Cochlear Baha 5 SuperPower Sound Processor for use in the US. The “Smart” bone conduction processor has direct-to-device wireless technology for patients with significant hearing loss. US availability is anticipated for summer 2016.
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Hybrid Cochlear Implants Help Those with High-Frequency Hearing Loss
According to early findings from a multi-center study led by specialists at NYU Langone Medical Center, people with a common form of hearing loss not helped by hearing aids achieved significant improvements in their hearing and understanding of speech with hybrid cochlear implants.
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FDA Approves Upgrade for Nucleus 22 Cochlear Implant
The FDA has approved the Nucleus 6 Sound Processor, which is a technology upgrade with many advanced features for the Nucleus 22 cochlear implant from Cochlear Limited.
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Scholarships Awarded to Hearing Implant Students
Cochlear Limited announced winners of the Graeme Clark and Anders Tjellstrom scholarships that recognize Cochlear Nucleus Implant and Baha System recipients who demonstrate exceptional academics, leadership, and humanity.
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Cochlear Releases Wireless and Automated Features for CI
Cochlear Limited has announced the release of its SmartSound iQ and true wireless features for use with the company’s Nucleus 6 Sound Processor for cochlear implants.
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