American BioHealth Group (ABG), a pharmaceutical company in San Diego founded in 2001, will announce the positive results on the first compound shown in a clinical trial to prevent hearing loss.
Read MoreRichard “Dick” Vessella, co-inventor of the jodi-vac hearing aid cleaner, passed away January 7, 2007. He was 53.
Read MoreAudiology pioneer and professor John K. Duffy, PhD, died at his home in January. Duffy had suffered several strokes. He was 93.
Read MoreRichard “Dick” Vessella, co-inventor of the jodi-vac hearing aid cleaner, passed away January 7, 2007. He was 53.
Read MoreHigh school students with hearing loss in 10th or 11th grade can compete in the second annual SpiRIT Writing Contest, sponsored by Rochester Institute of Technology’s (RIT) National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester, NY.
Read More“The Young and the Restless” character Devon Hamilton, played by actor Bryton McClure, received a cochlear implant, an implanted medical device that functionally restored his hearing.
Read More
Although I never met Bob Edgell, I do know him from his body of work as the editor and publisher of the now-defunct Hearing Dealer magazine of the 1950s and 1960s. He was a predecessor of my esteemed mentor, Marjorie Skafte (the magazine was
Read More
A look at commercial Internet resources available for hearing care professionals and their clients.
Read MoreTo better understand patient complaints, a portable system is necessary to record acoustic events.
Read More
For patients with steeply-sloping sensorineural hearing loss, the vast improvements recently made in hearing aid technology may not be completely effective due to reduced dynamic range and increased distortion that accompanies peripheral loss.
Read More
Visible Speech allows the dispensing professional to record, demonstrate, and verify the appropriateness of the hearing aid fitting while reviewing, demonstrating, and explaining the process in terms the patient understands—based on human speech and the Speech Intelligibility Index.
Read More
The cross-check principle has been utilized throughout the audiological test battery and expanded upon with the introduction of new technologies. This article looks at the use of the cross-check principle in identifying hearing loss, and then applies it to the verification of the hearing instrument fittings.
Read More
A willingness-to-charge survey is used to gauge clinicians’ perceived value of four advanced features found in middle and upper-end hearing aid technology.
Read More