The British Virgin Islands (BVI) may be beautiful, but many communities do not have a single audiologist to serve the needs of residents with hearing loss. Seeing this need, ReSound recently finished a mission to BVI, donating more than $100,000 in Alera hearing aids, wireless accessories, and fitting services to 14 underprivileged children.
Read MoreBetter Hearing Institute (BHI) has published Your Guide to Tinnitus, by Richard Tyler, PhD. This free downloadable eGuide is BHI’s seventh consumer-oriented hearing health publication.
Read MoreThe Better Balance Fall Prevention and Wellness Society is offering “Neurovestibular Sciences: The Study of Balance Medicine, Part One,” January 28-29, 2012, in Jacksonville, Fla.
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Honeywell Safety Products has introduced MAX Small earplugs, an extension to the companys Howard Leight MAX single-use earplug line. MAX Small’s reduced size is designed to offer people with smaller ear canals a more comfortable fit and high attenuation (NRR 30).
Read MoreThe Ida Institute has released “My World Understanding Hearing Loss from the Child’s Perspective,” a new counseling tool designed to enable clinicians to more effectively elicit the child’s perspective in the hearing rehabilitation process, and thus facilitate more effective management and understanding of the child’s day-to-day challenges.
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I never quite understood what my parents meant when they said that time moves faster as you get older. However, they were certainly correct: my calendar pages appear to be flipping faster than the one in Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life
Read MoreJames Mason University (JMU) has awarded the 2011 Roger Ruth Memorial Fund Student Research Awards to three JMU graduate students. The fund is supported by individual donors, as well as an ongoing financial commitment from Oticon Inc.
Read MoreIn this inspiring video from a TED conference, cochlear implant (CI) surgeon and musician Charles Limb, associate professor, Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, at Johns Hopkins, explains the challenges of CI patients hearing music and the brain research that is being done to help restore the full range of human hearing abilities.
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A brief review of these three often-confusing, but pivotal, concepts in hearing aid fitting.
Read MoreA new survey of AARP members reveals that nearly half of respondents say that their hearing is getting worse. At the same time, the survey shows that over half of the same AARP survey respondents with hearing difficulties dont believe they need treatment.
Read MoreMelmedtronics has announced that the Veterans Administrations National Acquisition Center has awarded a Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract for the company’s The Inhibitor tinnitus treatment device.
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HR’s annual look, from the perspective of industry participants, at the new product and service offerings and events in 2011, as well as what might be expected for 2012 and beyond.
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Tribute to the acoustic engineer who invented the acoustic suspension loudspeaker, dome tweeter, and multiband compression hearing aids, and brought about fundamental and permanent change in two different fields.
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With the wide array of high-tech gadgets in use today, it is inevitable that interference will pose challenges for hearing aids. Very often it can be difficult to determine the exact source of interference, but it is helpful if the patient can describe the environment where interference is noted. This article explains the various forms and routes of interference, and provides practical advice about mitigating interference problems in digital wireless hearing aids.
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