Hansaton Launches New Receiver-in-Canal Hearing System
The sound SHD stream is designed to support binaural hearing intelligence with language, localization, and optimization functions.
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Year: 2018
Six Points of Audiological Consensus on Central Auditory Processing Disorders (CAPD)
As with any branch of auditory science, research on CAPD continues to be pursued in many different areas. However, there is robust scientific evidence pertaining to the clinical existence, diagnosis, and treatment of CAPD. This short article provides a literature review for what might be viewed as six key tenets related to CAPD.
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HIA Holds 2018 Annual Meeting in Washington DC
HIA addressed patient safety and education, delivery care, innovation, and public policy at the meeting “Hearing Forward 2020.”
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City, University of London to Pilot Language and Reading Intervention for Children
The research team have shown in previous research that many severely and profoundly deaf children have significant reading delays, yet are typically excluded from reading intervention research.
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Keep Building Your Business
Those practices with larger gross revenues have the critical mass to leverage their advantages in an increasingly competitive market.
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These Hearing Aids Make Everything Sound Digital!
It is conceivable that the modern digitization process reduces the extraneous hearing aid (microphone) noise too much and a clinical strategy would be to reprogram the hearing aid with minimal expansion implemented in the hearing aid software.
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Adapting Treatment Solutions to the Individual
A problem arises if we don’t stop to think about the spectrum of individual differences that are out there in the tapestry of our patient population.
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Evidence Supports Testing Children Younger than Age 7 for Auditory Processing Disorders
Many audiologists believe that we cannot and should not evaluate children for auditory processing disorders (APD) below 7 years of age. However, they usually do not present evidence to support this statement.
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Real-life Applications of Machine Learning in Hearing Aids
A look into the present and future of hearing aid processing and post-fitting adjustments for patients.
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Are Post-Fitting Follow-up Visits Not Hearing Aid Best Practices?
This article offers a brief review of select audiological literature related to follow-up visits and their importance, common activities, and best practices, and also presents a field study that examines, in detail, one practice’s follow-ups and outcomes.
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Hearing Loss May be Associated with Accidental Injury Risk, ‘JAMA’ Researchers Show
An increased awareness about hearing difficulty, along with proper screening and management of any hearing trouble, may help reduce the risk of accidental injuries.
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iHEAR Medical Partners with Atlazo to Develop Hearing Aids
The ultra-low power System on Chip (SoC) platform will offer machine learning, analytics, connectivity, and integrated power management capabilities that are designed to enable energy efficiency, size reduction, and cost savings.
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Researchers Test New ‘Sensitive’ Robotic Hand Drill for Cochlear Implant Surgery
Bioengineers at Brunel University London have tested a new robotic hand drill with a smart sensor that stops automatically before it reaches the delicate endosteal membrane in the inner ear.
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New NIOSH/OSHA Ototoxicity and Hearing Loss Guidelines Published
It points out that harmful exposure to ototoxicant chemicals can occur through inhalation, ingestion, or skin absorption.
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New Jersey Health Foundation Awards More Than $1 Million Toward Health Research
Awards were given to researchers targeting a variety of health-related areas including exploring antibiotics and the flu; advancing cancer treatments; expanding diagnostic tools in cochlear implants, among others.
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