The Audéo B-Direct is designed to automatically sense the user’s surroundings and to make adjustments that enable them to hold conversations in noisy environments, answer phone calls without having to touch their phones, and enjoy what is said to be a “theater-quality” listening experience while watching movies and television shows at home.
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Opn miniRITE rechargeable hearing aids can be charged overnight so that a user can have power to last throughout the day. ConnectClip, an intermediary device, is designed to turn Opn hearing aids into a high-quality wireless headset for clear, hands-free calls from modern mobile phones, including iPhone® and Android™ smartphones.
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In 2017, the six EHIMA members who are the world’s largest and leading hearing instrument manufacturers sold 15.05 million hearing aids in total. Compared to the previous year, sales grew by 5.7%.
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Kate Carr has joined the Hearing Industries Association (HIA) as president. Carr brings more than two decades of non-profit, government, cause marketing and advocacy experience to HIA. An experienced leader, she has devoted her career to organizations that change outcomes in healthcare and improve the lives of children and families.
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iHEAR will launch the TReO, what the company says is the “first prescription-quality hearing amplifier for OTC markets,” and the iHearTest kit, a FDA-cleared home hearing screener, in 500 drugstores in June 2018.
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The FDA has cleared the MED-EL ADHEAR, an innovative non-surgical bone conduction solution for conductive hearing loss. Described as the “next generation of non-surgical bone conduction hearing technology,” it consists of a patented adhesive adapter that is placed onto the skin behind the ear and is worn for 3 to 7 days at a time. The lightweight audio processor is simply clicked on and off the adapter each day.
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A full 69% say parents of young children are not aware of the early warning signs of speech/language disorders—and 32% say that, on average, the symptoms of hearing loss are going undetected in children for one year or longer.
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Hearing is an important part of fitness-for-duty assessments of police officers and other public safety professionals—but standard hearing tests don’t give a true picture of whether these professionals can hear and communicate in the specific “noise environments” where they must work.
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Although virtually all children and their families receive therapy and support post cochlear implantation, many adults do not.
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In the new paper in “JAMA Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery,” a team from the University of Michigan analyzed data from 1,336 adults ages 65 to 85 who reported severe hearing loss.
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When the #MillionEar Challenge is met, Cochlear pledges to donate $30,000 to help fund hearing loss research through the Hearing Health Foundation’s Emerging Research Grants (ERG) program.
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The text covers emerging assessment and intervention strategies associated with hyperacusis, disorders of pitch perception, and other unusual processing deficits of the auditory system.
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The researchers found greater incidence of dementia among patients prescribed anticholinergic antidepressants, anticholinergic bladder medications, and anticholinergic Parkinson’s disease medications than among older adults who were not prescribed these drugs.
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TruDi is an electromagnetic image-guided navigation system designed to offer ENT surgeons an accurate, simple, and reliable option for their endoscopic sinus surgery procedures. It is intended for use during intranasal and paranasal image-guided navigation procedures for eligible patients requiring sinus surgery.
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Walk4Hearing raises awareness of hearing loss and provides strategies and information on topics such as hearing loss prevention, the importance of getting your hearing screened, treatment of hearing loss, and maintaining good hearing health.
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