According to HIA statistics, the US hearing aid market has experienced sales gains of 5.9% and may exceed 4 million hearing aid units dispensed by the end of 2018. Here’s a summary of the US hearing industry statistics through the third quarter of this year, including a look at the most-common styles of hearing aids sold.
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The research, conducted by researchers from Oticon and Interacoustics on an international team, revealed another function in the inner ear that detects the acoustic details in speech before it is converted into information for the brain.
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Overall, the findings of this study demonstrate that the two new CROS/BiCROS systems from Signia—the Pure 312 Nx CROS with Narrow directionality and the Silk Nx CROS—provide a superior solution to the daily listening problems encountered by people with SSD.
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An annual program that celebrates outstanding design, the CES Innovation Awards recognizes honorees across 28 product categories.
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Livio AI interfaces with a brand-new mobile app — Thrive™ Hearing and three new wireless accessories—the Starkey Hearing Technologies TV, the Remote, and the Remote Microphone +.
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Roughly 18,000 audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and related professionals will gather in Boston this week to hear and present the latest research and best practices to identify, manage, and treat these disorders at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s (ASHA) 2018 Annual Convention.
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The 2018 Association of Adult Musicians with Hearing Loss (AAMHL) web conference, Coping with Hearing Loss: Strategies for Musical People, will be held on November 17, 2018, 2:00-3:30 pm EST.
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Oticon Kaizn has received a 2019 CES Best of Innovation Award in the Software and Mobile Apps category, and has been named a CES Innovation Honoree in the Tech for a Better World category.
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The deepening of this relationship includes joint research and development, shared technology, and strengthened global Smart Hearing Alliance commercial collaboration between Cochlear and GN Hearing, the hearing aid division of the GN Group.
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Starting this Veteran’s Day, active-duty and retired veterans may be nominated to receive a reduced-cost Levo System to offset the out-of-pocket expenses associated with tinnitus therapy.
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Inventis Srl announced that it has signed an agreement for a share capital increase underwritten by the Innovative-RFK Spa fund, which thereby will become part of the company with a 30% stake.
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For the 2018 third quarter, the company reported net sales of $30.1 million, up 20.2% from $25.1 million in the prior-year period. According to the announcement, the increase was primarily due to year-over-year revenue gains from IntriCon’s largest medical customer and growth in its value-based hearing healthcare business.
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Compared to the patients without hearing loss, patients with the condition generated nearly 26% more in total health care costs within two years, a gap that widened to 46% by 10 years, amounting to $22,434 per individual ($20,403 incurred by the health plan, $2,030 by the individual in out-of-pocket costs).
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Researchers wanted to see whether machine learning algorithms could pick out patterns within the raw acoustical data that indicated what the crowd was doing at a given time, thereby providing clues as to what was happening in the game itself.
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These preclinical data, demonstrating the potential of intratympanic BDNF to repair cochlear synaptopathy—an underlying cause of hearing loss including speech-in-noise hearing difficulty—are being presented as part of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Annual Meeting in San Diego, November 3-7, 2018.
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