Cochlear Supports Hearing Health Awareness
Cochlear is donating funding to support and promote CELEBRATE SOUND Don’t Walk in Silence events.
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Author: Christa Nuber
Study Shows Hair Cell Regrowth with New Drug
A new approach, published in “Cell Reports,” to regenerate inner ear sensory hair cells is said to lay the groundwork for treating chronic noise-induced hearing loss by the company, Frequency Therapeutics, and its co-founders who are drawing on research from Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), Harvard Medical School, Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary, and MIT. The program is expected to progress to into human clinical trials within the next 18 months.
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Audigy 2017 Owner Summit Focuses on Putting the Patient First
Nearly 200 key industry thought leaders from the Audigy membership and corporate team met in Carlsbad, Calif., for the annual Owners Summit event from February 16-18, 2017.
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Better Hearing Institute Shares Hearing Health Infographic
According to the Better Hearing Institute (BHI), the smartest and most efficient way to appropriately address hearing loss is to see a hearing care professional. This infographic from BHI provides some basic information to guide people who are serious about treating their hearing loss.
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Hearing Aid Tax Credit Reintroduced by Senators Heller, Klobuchar
Senators Dean Heller (R-NV) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) have reintroduced the bipartisan Hearing Aid Tax Credit (S. 48) which, if enacted, would provide a $500 credit or $1,000 credit (if two aids are necessary) to people of all ages who need a hearing aid to address their hearing loss.
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Clearwater Clinical Receives Funding to Expand SHOEBOX Audiometry
Mobile medical device maker Clearwater Clinical, which makes a clinically-validated tablet-based audiometer called SHOEBOX Audiometry, has secured $6MM in funding to expand its audiology business unit’s products beyond North America. Funding was led by Whitecap Venture Partners.
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Doug Beck, AuD, Presents at Audiology Seminar in Hong Kong
Oticon sponsored Douglas L. Beck, AuD, director of Academic Sciences, as the guest speaker for the professional seminar, “Prioritizing Human Perception and Cognition in the New Generation of Hearing Solutions.”
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Audiology Pioneer James Jerger, PhD, Publishes Memoir
James Jerger: A Life in Audiology is a unique and engaging account of an inspiring scholar’s remarkable career. His work has had a profound effect on the field of audiology. The new book is a must-read for anyone interested in audiology and hearing healthcare.
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Audioscan Introduces User-friendly Software Improvements
Audioscan has introduced user-friendly software for its Verifit, Axiom, and RM500SL brands. The Verifit2 binaural model has more than 9 new features, including time-saving data enhancements to make copying, deleting, and entering data more efficient with fewer clicks.
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Phonak US Appoints New Sales Executives
Phonak announced the appointment of Jason Mayer as vice president of commercial sales, and Rose Bongiovanni as vice president of strategic accounts. Mayer brings 13 years of industry experience to his new role, and audiologist Bongiovanni brings more than 30 years in the hearing industry to her new role.
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Signia Receives Two CES 2017 Innovation Awards
Signia has been named a CES 2017 Innovation Awards Honoree for two of its products: the Cellion™ hearing aid and the myHearing app. Products entered in the CES program are judged by a panel of independent industrial designers, engineers, and media to honor outstanding design and engineering.
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The Final Word: Organize Your Work Space to Enhance the Patient Experience
Dr Van Vliet advises that you may want to reorganize your work space as one of your New Year’s resolutions to help improve the patient experience at your practice. If the space works for you and is pleasing to your patients, everyone is happy.
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Listening Effort, Speech Intelligibility, and Narrow Directionality
This article outlines results from an experiment at the National Acoustic Laboratories (NAL) using a narrow-directionality (binaural beamformer) feature, and shows the advantage of this type of directional feature in situations where listening to a frontal target speech is a challenging task, and a closed fitting is acceptable.
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Critical Steps in Establishing a Teleaudiology Practice
Interested in building a teleaudiology program into your existing hearing care practice or organization? This article by Bopanna Ballachanda, PhD, provides some practical advice, as well as 10 items to consider in your planning.
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Hearing Problems in Schizophrenia Tied to Brain Receptors
The inability to hear subtle changes in pitch, a common and debilitating problem for people with schizophrenia, is due to dysfunctional N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) brain receptors that affect auditory plasticity. Researchers found that this hearing deficit can be improved by combining auditory training exercises with a drug that targets NMDA receptors.
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