Envoy Medical Secures Patent for Safe Recharge Tech in Fully Implanted Hearing Devices
Envoy Medical was awarded a new patent for its recharge system that maintains safe temperatures when recharging implantable batteries.
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Advanced Bionics to Add Phonak Marvel Hearing Technology to Cochlear Implants
With AutoSense OS 3.0, Naída CI Marvel helps deliver “excellent sound quality and performance in a variety of situations throughout the day.”
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Cochlear Launches ‘Hearing Aid Check’ Tool
The tool allows adults with hearing aids who are struggling to hear to learn if they may benefit from a cochlear implant. The tool aims to help participants, particularly in the aging adult population, compare their hearing performance with hearing aids to people with a cochlear implant, and depending on their results, to seek further hearing healthcare advice to treat their loss.
Vanderbilt Researchers Receive $3.1M Grant for Customizable Cochlear Implant Programming
These models will ultimately enable development of next-generation programming strategies that rely on these computational simulations of implant performance to find programming settings that greatly improve sound quality for cochlear implant users compared to the traditional programming approach.
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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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Cochlear Loses US Patent Appeal
The article estimates that Cochlear’s costs, including legal fees and interest, could exceed $750 million.
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Cochlear CEO Warns of Delay in Hearing-Related Pediatric Surgeries
According to the article, pediatric surgeries to correct hearing problems have already resumed in China, mostly in the areas outside Hubei province, where the coronavirus was most prevalent.
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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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The Impact of Unilateral Hearing Loss on Adult Life
There is a need to improve awareness and to better understand the impact and struggles of people who have unilateral hearing loss (UHL), the professionals who treat them, and those who work, live, and socialize with them. With better awareness comes better understanding, so health professionals can refer them rather than dismiss them. Moreover, better understanding can fuel motivation and allow the person with UHL to be more proactive about managing the condition while reducing anxiety.
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MED-EL's First BONEBRIDGE Hearing Implant System Surgically Implanted
Otolaryngologist Yi-Chun Carol Liu, MD, performed the surgery on an 18-year old, and the device was successfully activated on November 13, 2018.
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Soundbite Re-emerges as ‘Molar Mic’, a Military/Rescue Communication Device
What the hearing care field formerly knew as Sonitus Medical’s Soundbite system, a bone-conduction hearing device that resembled a dental bridge, has now re-emerged as Sonitus Technologies and a high-tech communications device called the ‘Molar Mic’ for military and rescue applications.
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MED-EL BONEBRIDGE System Granted FDA “de Novo Clearance”
MED-EL USA, Durham, NC, has been granted FDA de novo clearance for the BONEBRIDGE™ bone conduction hearing implant system for individuals 12 years and older who have been diagnosed with conductive hearing loss, mixed hearing loss, or single-sided deafness.
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Effects of Amplification on Cortical Electrophysiological Function
There has been great interest in using speech-evoked cortical auditory evoked potentials (CAEP) as an objective hearing aid validation measure, because CAEPs allow us to assess the audibility of speech sounds at the highest (cortical) levels. Here is a review by Sridhar Krishnamurti and Larry Wise, as well as results from a study they conducted that suggests there is clinical value of CAEPs for assessing cortical changes from amplification, as well as using this data in audiology services to demonstrate patient benefit.
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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.
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3-D Printed Prosthetic Replacements for Damaged Middle Ear May Improve Current Surgical Procedure
The technique has the potential to improve a surgical procedure that often fails because of incorrectly sized prosthetic implants, researchers said.
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Researchers Listen to Zebrafish to Understand Human Hearing Loss
Can a fish with a malformed jaw tell us something about hearing loss in mice and humans? The answer is yes, according to a new publication in ‘Scientific Reports.’
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MED-EL Seeks Entries for Children’s Competition ‘Ideas 4 Ears’
MED-EL USA announced a search for future inventions through a global children’s competition, Ideas 4 Ears.
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Facts vs Values: Faulty Analogies in the Rationale for OTC Devices
Clinically we all need to walk the fine line between the “values” of our clientele and the “facts” that we need to impart upon them as professionals. Marshall Chasin discusses this in relation to his own patients, as well as the OTC hearing aid debate.
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