The incidence of maltreatment, including neglect and physical and sexual abuse, is more than 25% higher among deaf and hard-of-hearing children than among hearing youths.
Read MoreThe US Food and Drug Administration has unveiled 25 actions it intends to implement during 2011 to improve the 510(k) medical device approval process. It is unclear how the changes will affect hearing aid device approval, if at all.
Read MoreFinancial reports suggest that Siemens may be moving toward an acquisition of HearUSA.
Read MoreDue to an outcry from industry and key Senators about implementation costs, The US Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has withdrawn its proposed interpretation of existing workplace hearing loss prevention rules.
Read MoreA jury of architects and curators from the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies have awarded Phonak five design awards for several hearing products.
Read MoreThe Better Hearing Institute (BHI) has joined with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and the American Heart Association (AHA) to promote American Heart Month in February and to celebrate National Wear Red Day, February 4, 2011.
Read MoreReSound is hosting a nationwide series of patient education seminars with local audiologists. The seminars are designed to help the hearing impaired overcome the social stigma of having a hearing aid.
Read MoreAccording to a new report by Global Industry Analysts (GIA), the global audiological devices market will reach $22 billion by 2015.
Read MoreThe Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) Fox Valley Chapter and HLAA-Wisconsin are holding a hearing loop conference in Appleton, Wisc on April 2, 2011.
Read MoreHelix Hearing Care Centre is launching a new campaign to help Ontario, Canada tinnitus sufferers to manage their hearing condition.
Read MoreThe First International Conference on Cognitive Hearing Science for Communication will take place on June 19-22, 2011 in Linkping, Sweden.
Read MoreNIH-funded researchers were able to eliminate tinnitus in a group of rats by stimulating a nerve in the neck while simultaneously playing a variety of sound tones over an extended period of time.
Read MoreReSound announced that it has become the exclusive provider of hearing aids for the Help America Hear program, created by the Foundation for Sight & Sound.
Read MoreThere are promising results from the most recent clinical trial evaluating Neramexane as a treatment for Tinnitus.
Read MoreResearchers from Chicago’s Northwestern Memorial Hospital are participating in a study evaluating whether individuals with partial hearing loss can benefit from hybrid cochlear implants.
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