Cochlear Americas, Englewood, Colo, is the recipient of a 2006 Medical Design Excellence Award (MDEA), the premier awards program for the medical technology community that recognizes the achievements of medical product manufacturers and the many people behind the scenes.
Read MoreMedRx Inc, Largo, Fla, has reached a supply agreement with AuDNet. Members of AuDNet are now eligible to receive preferred retail pricing on equipment as a benefit of membership to the group.
Read MoreNew guidelines have been issued by an expert panel from the fields of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery, pediatrics, family medicine, infectious disease, internal medicine, emergency medicine, and medical informatics on providing evidence-based recommendations for the management of acute otitis externa (AOE), more commonly known as swimmer’s ear.
Read MoreThe tide of hearing aid press coverage is turning positive. Following on the heels of the March/April issue of AARP Magazine which featured the positive article “Now Hear This,” three major national features and an array of local press items have noted the new technologies, the “cool” appearance, and the high consumer satisfaction rates with today’s hearing aids.
Read MoreA computer program to protect against machine noise has earned the 18-year-old German inventor a design award at a Munich trade show.
Read MoreThe Hearing Industries Association (HIA), Alexandria, Va, announces that Rep Melissa Hart (R-Pa) is co-sponsoring the Hearing Aid Assistance Tax Credit (HR 414).
Read MoreGabriela Santos, a seventh-grader at the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind (FSDB) in St. Augustine, received an award from Audina® Hearing Instruments Inc, Longwood, Fla, for her winning entry in a competition to name Audina’s new company mascot, an 8-foot flamingo.
Read MoreThe Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, will host its 6th Biennial Audiology Symposium, Innovations in Hearing, August 4-5, 2006.
Read MoreResearchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Boston, reported that they successfully created a mouse model that allows them to build on earlier findings about the effect of deactivating retinoblastoma (Rb) protein that controls the growth and division of the inner ear’s hair cells, which convert sound vibrations to nerve impulses.
Read MoreOticon Inc, recently awarded the Innovation Cup 2006 as the most innovative Danish company, has opened its new high-tech headquarters just outside of Copenhagen.
Read MoreSiemens Hearing Instruments, Piscataway, NJ, part of Siemens Medical Solutions, will host its 2nd International Hands-On Pediatric Workshop, August 2-4, 2006 in Nuremburg, Germany, just miles from Siemens’ global corporate headquarters.
Read MoreTo help shed some light and raise awareness on the growing epidemic of hearing loss and ear health problems, the Audiology Awareness Campaign (AAC) and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Consumer Healthcare have partnered to educate consumers whoop may be slowly losing their hearing and think there is nothing they can do to prevent or treat it.
Read MoreThe American Academy of Audiology Foundation, Reston, Va, thanked the Greater Minneapolis Convention and Visitors Association (GMCVA) for support of the AudiologyNOW! Hurricane Katrina Member Assistance Program.
Read MoreThe Hearing Industries Association (HIA), Alexandria, Va, has joined with eight other national organizations to make hearing an issue of national concern during May is Better Hearing and Speech Month.
Read MoreA study conducted by The Danish National Institute of Social Research found that hearing problems significantly increase the likelihood of being unemployed and on disability.
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