According to an article in The Lancet, antibiotics for middle ear infection (otitis media) are only beneficial in children under the age of two with both ears infected. For most other children an observation policy seems justified finds the study.
Read MoreThe National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and six other components of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced contracts totaling $61 million over 6 ½ years to conduct the largest long-term epidemiological study of health and disease in Latin American populations living in the United States.
Read MoreHouse Ear Institute, Los Angeles, and Creative, Milpitas, Calif, a worldwide leader in digital entertainment products, have joined forces to provide music lovers with information about adopting healthy listening habits when enjoying music and movies through headphones plugged into Creative’s ZEN MP3 and portable media players.
Read MoreA new, easy-to-use diagnostic tool that can quickly identify a sizeable subset of learning disabled children is now commercially available.
Read MoreClarity®, a division of Plantronics, Inc, Chattanooga, Tenn, and a supplier of amplified telephones, has teamed up with NorthStar Studios to make a new product line, called Personix™, available to consumers through a direct response television campaign.
Read MoreA new analysis of iPods and other portable, digital music players by researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Children’s Hospital in Boston has produced the first-ever detailed guidelines for safe listening levels using earphones.
Read MoreMore than 60 leaders in the education and healthcare fields attended a forum sponsored by the American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA) in an attempt to tackle the problem of the shortages of speech-language pathologists.
Read MoreMarketing research results from the House Ear Institute’s hearing awareness campaign aimed at teens show that the number of young people who consider noise-induced hearing loss a real health problem has jumped 42% since the campaign launched in January 2006.
Read MoreHearing Loss Association of America (HLAA), formerly known as Self Help for Hard of Hearing People (SHHH), has responded to the controversy at Gallaudet University in which the university rescinded the appointment of Jane K. Fernandes as its new president.
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A review of product literature and promotional materials available from hearing-related manufacturers and distributors.
Read MoreA sampling of some of the important research that generally did not make its way to hearing care professionals during 2006.
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Hal-Hen and Widex USA celebrated their 60th and 50th anniversaries, respectively. Here is a look back at the companies’ origins, its leaders, and the important role the company has played in the hearing health care field.
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Is it more important to synchronize the classification environment across ears, or allow the classification of the environment to vary depending on the listening situation? As hearing aid technology progresses, combining laboratory data with real-world experience to find the most appropriate evaluation strategies for predicting patient benefits becomes more challenging.
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To paraphrase Mark Twain: Rumors of the death of VCs are greatly exaggerated. For several reasons, hearing aids will still offer a VC option. As signal processing algorithms continue to improve, it is clear that the future for VCs greatly depends on the component manufacturers.
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Tympanometry is one of the greatest tools we have at our disposal. It has a high level of reliability and repeatability, it gives us important information quickly, and it provides us with fairly easy-to-interpret results. However, only about half of dispensing professionals routinely conduct tympanometry.
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