Sonic Innovations, a U.S.-based digital hearing aid manufacturer, warns Americans who ignore a hearing loss are also losing income. A study from the Better Hearing Institute (BHI), a non-profit corporation that educates the public about the neglected problem of hearing loss and what can be done about it, gives the numbers.
Oticon Medical, a global medical device company within the William Demant Group, announced that it has obtained 501(k) clearance from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to market the innovative Ponto bone anchored hearing system. The Ponto System features an easy-to-operate computer fitting platform to enable a more precise match between patient [...]
Nerve fibers that link perception and motor regions of the brain are disconnected in tone-deaf people, according to new research in the August 19 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. Experts estimate that at least 10 percent of the population may be tone deaf - unable to sing in tune. The new finding identifies a [...]
Anyone with an MP3 device — just about every man, woman and child on the planet today, it seems — has a notion of the majesty of music, of the primal place it holds in the human imagination. But musical training should not be seen simply as stuff of the soul — [...]
The British Tinnitus Association (BTA) is advising members of the Armed Forces to be aware of the dangers of excessive noise while they are undergoing training and intense combat. The warning comes as a soldier who had suffered permanent hearing loss and tinnitus in one ear as a result of exposure to excessive noise, during [...]
On Wednesday, August 26th, the American Hearing Research Foundation together with Northwestern University will present a lecture on hearing, hearing loss and hearing loss therapies entitled “What You Always Wanted to Know About Hearing: Ask a Doctor.” The lecture will be given by former AHRF grant recipient Claus-Peter Richter, M.D., Ph.D., and [...]
Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have succeeded for the first time in devising a model that describes and identifies a basic cellular mechanism that enables networks of neurons to efficiently decode speech in changing conditions. The research may lead to the upgrading of computer algorithms for faster and more precise [...]
FOR seven decades Colin Hughes has been struggling to keep up with conversations swirling around him.
Born with narrow eustachian tubes unable to drain fluid from his middle ear, the retiree from Mudgee has never been able to hear properly.
He has endured seven bouts of surgery, and is unable to wear conventional hearing aids, which [...]
Hearing aids and cochlear implants act as tiny amplifiers so the deaf and hard-of-hearing can make sense of voices and music. Unfortunately, these devices also amplify background sound, so they’re less effective in a noisy environment like a busy workplace or café. But help is on the way. Prof.