The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that on April 18, 2017, it will host a workshop to examine competition, innovation, and consumer protection issues raised by hearing health and technology, especially hearing aids. The FTC’s free workshop, open to the public, is titled “Now Hear This: Competition, Innovation, and Consumer Protection Issues in Hearing Health Care.”
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Fuel Medical, one of the fastest-growing private companies in Oregon and southwest Washington, announces the addition of Kelly O’Keefe as Director of Digital Strategies.
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Teleaudiology can be a game changer for hearing care practices and organizations. Here are three questions to ask when considering it as a means of improving professional presence and productivity.
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In the past several years the hearing aid industry has introduced some ingenious solutions to handling the “music and hearing aids” problem. Simply stated, the higher level inputs of music tend to overdrive the analog-to-digital (A/D) converter or “front end” in many hearing aids. Dr Chasin discusses some possible solutions for music listening.
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In 2016, Oticon introduced its Opn hearing aid, which offers new technology designed to exceed and supplant traditional directionality and noise reduction protocols. This article looks at initial responses from consumers who are wearing Opn.
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For this installment of Inside Clinical Research, Dr Doug Beck discusses with researcher Anu Sharma, PhD, her work in cross modal plasticity of the brain and cortical resource allocation as related to hearing loss. Dr Sharma also discusses other aspects of auditory deprivation on the human brain.
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A Dissemination Meeting held by the National Academies of Sciences (NAS) facilitated discussion on strategies for improving hearing healthcare access and affordability, and identifying needs, barriers, and opportunities. The meeting also was a brainstorming session for how stakeholders could collaborate, particularly on recommendations that have acquired general consensus.
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GN Hearing has announced the closing of its divestment of Otometrics, its hearing testing device segment. As reported by The Hearing Review, on September 25, 2016, GN Hearing had announced a contingent agreement to divest Otometrics to Natus Medical Inc (“Natus”).
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On January 1, 2017, Gail Richard, PhD, CCC-SLP, took office as the new president of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). She will work to advance the objectives of ASHA, its members and affiliates who are audiologists; speech-language pathologists; speech-language and audiology scientists, staff, and students.
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Lip movements affect the perception of voice information from the ears when listening to someone speak, but native Japanese speakers are mostly unaffected by lip movements, or lipreading, when listening to another speaker, according to new evidence from a neuroimaging study conducted in Japan.
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Many adults report difficulties hearing in everyday situations despite having normal or near-normal hearing test results. Researchers have developed a hearing test that identifies hearing loss or deficits in individuals who are considered to have normal or near-normal hearing in traditional tests.
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Westone, a provider of high performance in-ear monitors and hearing protection, will unveil a new in-ear monitor (IEM) at the NAMM 2017 show, January 19-22 in Anaheim, Calif. The new ES80 is the latest innovation of Westone’s custom-fit Elite Series, and an evolution of Westone’s W80 Universal in-ear monitors.
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Scientists at Imperial College in London have found that injections of the steroid methylprednisolone, given through the ear drum to treat balance problems associated with Ménière’s disease, are as effective as the current ‘gold standard’ treatment of antibiotic injections, with fewer side effects.
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According to a study published in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, our current understanding that mice have either no, or very limited, neural circuitry and genes like those that regulate human speech is incorrect. The protein that regulates speech production in humans, also affects vocalization patterns in mice and other mammals.
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There has been debate as to what role sign language has played in language evolution, and whether the structure of sign language shares similarities with spoken language. New research shows that our brains detect deep similarities between speech and sign language–interpreting both equally as language.
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