The UNIQUE, a new hearing aid from Widex, is designed to provide effortless hearing by addressing the nuances hearing aids need to capture and process for patients’ unique, individualized listening needs.
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Today, more than ever, hearing care professionals are looking for ways to stay competitive without compromising the quality of care for their patients. This article looks at the dispensing practice and offers advice on how to ensure a thriving business and maintain a competitive advantage in the changing fitting market.
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The authors take issue with recent reports about the performance of Musicians Earplugs, and show that the ways in which data were graphically displayed explain the differences in interpretation.
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The concept of “best practices” has been used to cover many functions. Any thorough discussion of best practices for hearing aid verification should take into account all of those procedures that have been developed over the past 110 years, and should recognize that some of these test procedures are not sufficiently diagnostic enough to contribute to potential solutions for the patient.
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Looking back on a eventful trip in 1960, Dr Jerger recounts the many friendships made during a trip overseas, and how those friendships influenced his career. The professional camaraderie he shared with international colleagues and insights he gained from them illustrate the advantages of growing up professionally in a smaller world.
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Big drama engulfs the Big 6 lately, as top management at US hearing aid companies are forced out, either falling on their swords or being escorted from buildings by security. The real Big 6 drama, however, is the slow, fight-to-the-death that is playing in US and Danish courtrooms, starring two Danish hearing aid manufacturers in a high-stakes patent war.
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In the last several years, technologies have become available that have shifted up the maximum input that can be digitized through an A/D converter to over 110 dB SPL. One element—the final element—remains when optimizing a hearing aid for music, and it is surprisingly very “low tech” — a single-channel hearing aid. Dr Chasin discusses its merits for music.
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Dr Van Vliet discusses how we are looking at a change in our market that offers products that provide some of the benefits we now can only provide with hearing aids. Do we embrace the new products and build them into our treatment plans, or do we resist change and stick with our old formula?
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NIDCD scientists have created the first high-resolution gene expression map of the newborn mouse inner ear using single-cell RNA-seq. The findings provide new insight into how epithelial cells in the inner ear develop and differentiate into specialized cells that serve critical functions for hearing and maintaining balance.
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Oticon Medical announced that its 4th annual Scientific Meeting drew more than 90 professionals representing 23 countries to its headquarters in Copenhagen. The 3-day conference combined scientific presentations, lectures, and roundtable discussions with focused programs concentrating on audiology and surgery.
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Researchers at the University of British Columbia have found that babies need free tongue movement to decipher speech sounds, and the study is the first to discover a direct link between infants’ oral-motor movements and auditory speech perception.
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Registration is open for The Hearing Review’s “What Research on First-time Hearing Aid Users Tells Us” webinar, scheduled for Thursday, October 22, 2015 at 2:00 PM EST / 11:00 AM PST. This webinar is brought to Hearing Review readers by CareCredit.
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VARTA Microbattery, which has been in business in Ellwangen, Germany for 125 years, is exhibiting its power one hearing aid batteries at the 60th International Congress of Hearing Aid Acousticians from the European Union of Hearing Aid Acousticians (EUHA).
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Unitron is participating in EUHA 2015 in Germany to launch the company’s new Stride family of BTE and ITE hearing aids, as well as new solutions. This week Unitron also is launching its new products at the company’s International Partner Forum in Prague, Czech Republic.
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Can you imagine a drug that would sharpen memory, make it easier to learn a language, and help those with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease by rewiring the brain and keeping neurons alive? A new Rutgers study indicates that a cancer drug may have the potential to achieve these outcomes.
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