Cochlear Americas, the world’s leader in advanced hearing technologies, brings together cochlear implant recipients and their families for the third Cochlear Celebration on March 26-29 in Anaheim, California. With over 600 recipients and their families expected to attend, this inspiring four-day event is the largest gathering of cochlear implant recipients in the world.
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine researchers have discovered that adult animals with hearing loss actually re-route the sense of touch into the hearing parts of the brain. In the study, published online in the Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of March 23, the [...]
Hearing loss is a common disorder that can cause significant communication difficulties and directly affect the accurate transfer of information during a medical encounter. Hearing loss also often increases with age; as the Baby Boomers get older, the prevalence of hearing loss will increase.
Deafness affects more than 250 million people worldwide. It typically involves the loss of sensory receptors, called hair cells, for their “tufts” of hair-like protrusions, and their associated neurons. The transplantation of stem cells that are capable of producing functional cell types might be a promising treatment for hearing impairment, but no human candidate cell [...]
Brits planning their summer holidays are being warned of the effects of dirty hotel swimming pools on their hearing. Research commissioned by hearing aid giant, Amplifon, found that sudden hearing loss can be brought on by exposure to dirty pools or water that has been over chlorinated.
Staff at Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton have received specialist training in how to communicate with people with sight and hearing loss. More than 130 staff and representatives from local partner organisations attended the training which was delivered by DeafBlind UK, a leading national charity working for people with varying degrees [...]
According to data from the Ministerio de Educación, PolÃtica Social y Deporte, nearly a million people in Spain suffer from some sort of hearing impairment. This collective has communication difficulties that become even more challenging when said communication must be carried out via a phone call, for example when arranging a doctor’s appointment.
To look at Matthew Houdek, you could never tell he was born with virtually no left ear. A surgery at Loyola University Health System made it possible for Houdek to be fitted with a prosthetic ear that looks just like the real thing. Ear-nose-throat surgeon Dr. Sam Marzo implanted [...]
Lehigh University assistant professor of neuroscience Michael Burger has been awarded a .8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders for his research entitled “Efferent Inhibitory Mechanisms in Binaural Processing.
The majority of the 650,000 employees from Quebec’s manufacturing sector - specifically those working in metallurgy and sawmilling - are exposed to noise levels that exceed governmental norms. According to a new study from the Université de Montréal, the Université Laval and the Institut national de santé publique du Québec, extra workplace [...]