Merger Application for Widex and Sivantos Delayed
An application to the European Commission for approval of an $8 billion merger between hearing aid manufacturers Widex and Sivantos has been withdrawn, according to a “Reuters” report.
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Year: 2018
Cochlear Ltd to Appeal $268 Million Patent Infringement Judgement
A US District Court has awarded $268.1 million in damages against Cochlear Ltd as part of a patent infringement lawsuit filed by the Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Scientific Research and Advanced Bionics LLC.
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Phonak Partners with Microsoft on Phonak Remote Support Service
The new service is designed to increase access to hearing care over distance by helping to enable remote fine-tuning of Phonak Audéo Marvel hearing aids from virtually anywhere in the world.
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InnerScope and Erchonia Enter Agreement to Conduct Trials for Tinnitus Treatment
InnerScope and Erchonia are reported to have received approval under FDA regulations from an Institutional Review Board (“IRB”) for the initial clinical trial of the effect of Erchonia’s low-level laser therapy technology on the relief of tinnitus symptoms.
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Staff Standpoint: Bose and Self-fitting Hearing Aids
On October 5, the FDA granted De Novo status to Bose Corporation for a self-fitting hearing aid for mild-to-moderate hearing loss.
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Otonomy to Present at Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, November 3-7
A presentation demonstrating the therapeutic potential of OTO-413, a sustained-exposure otic formulation of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), for the repair of cochlear synaptopathy in speech-in-noise hearing difficulties has been selected by SfN as a Neuroscience 2018 Hot Topic.
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Sandy Brandmeier Joins Sonova Wholesale US as New President
On October 31, Sandy Brandmeier officially joined Sonova USA and will work alongside current US Wholesale President Jan Metzdorff, who has been on a limited assignment in North America since August 2016. Over the next 5 months, both will work in concert to ensure a seamless transition until Brandmeier takes over full responsibility as President of Sonova Wholesale US on April 1, 2019.
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Atlazo Appoints Adnan Shennib President of Life Sciences
Shennib brings over 30 years of experience in healthcare innovations, starting his career in implantable cardiac pacing, and later taking leading roles with several hearing aid manufacturers including ReSound and InSound Medical, where he invented and developed the Lyric™ hearing device.
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ADA 2018 Convention Is “Bolder than Ever” in Orlando
The 2018 Academy of Doctors of Audiology (ADA) Convention had the theme, “Bolder than Ever,” and lived up to it with 3 days of excellent seminars and events in Orlando, Fla, on October 22-24.
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Anders Hedegaard Resigns as CEO of GN Hearing
GN Hearing CEO Anders Hedegaard has resigned after accepting a position as CEO in another company outside of the hearing industry. Marcus Desimoni will act as interim CEO of GN Hearing, in parallel with his role as CFO of GN Store Nord and GN Hearing, until a new CEO for GN Hearing is appointed.
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ASHA and Ida Institute Announce Partnership
The organizations plan to meet quarterly for the foreseeable future and gradually introduce the deliverables of their new collaboration.
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A Comparison of Automated Real-Ear and Traditional Hearing Aid Fitting Methods
Several “autoREMfit” systems have been developed to assist in hearing aid fittings. This article evaluates a new fit-to-target platform, Audioscan’s VerifitLINK, that could be integrated into any manufacturer’s software, and documents its performance in target matching during hearing aid fitting.
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EUHA Elects Beate Gromke as Incoming President
EUHA announced that its members have voted Beate Gromke president of the EUHA. Eva Keil-Becker will be the association’s Vice-President, and Jürgen Matthies its Vice-President and Treasurer. She succeeds Martin Blecker, who had served on the EUHA executive committee for 27 years.
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RIT/NTID Earns National Science Foundation Funding to Explore Augmented Reality Technology
Using augmented reality to make science, technology, engineering, and math content more accessible to deaf and hard-of-hearing learners in live presentation settings is the goal of a $258,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded to Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf (RIT/NTID).
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NIH Awards $3.2 Million Grant for Cochlear Implant and Hearing Aid Algorithm Tool
John Hansen, PhD, professor of electrical and computer engineering at The University of Texas at Dallas, and his colleagues have developed CCi-MOBILE, a research platform that enables easy development and evaluation of sound processing algorithms/strategies with cochlear implants, as well as hearing aids.
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