WHO Holds Webinars to Address New Ear and Hearing Survey Handbook
The handbook can facilitate the planning and conduct of prevalence surveys for hearing loss.
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Author: Stefani Kim
Eargo Announces Discounts on Merchandise for Healthcare Workers
Eargo announced that they are doubling their commitment to healthcare professionals and their families by giving away “1 million in value of their virtually invisible hearing aids.” This offer is an expansion of the company’s previous commitment of $500,000 worth of value, as announced on March 30.
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Researchers Examine Link Between Cognitive Decline, Hearing Loss
In the hippocampus, synaptic plasticity was chronically impaired by progressive hearing loss. The distribution and density of neurotransmitter receptors in sensory and memory regions of the brain also changed constantly. The stronger the hearing impairment, the poorer were both synaptic plasticity and memory ability.
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GN Hearing Introduces In-ear Tests for ReSound Assist Live
The technology helps allow hearing care professionals to offer complete hearing care remotely, including hearing assessment and hearing aid fitting.
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AAA Article Discusses Considerations for Treatment of COVID-19 with Quinine Derivatives
AAA recommends that patients treated with these drugs limit their exposure to loud noise and/or use hearing protection to guard against further hearing damage.
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Earlens Contact Hearing Solution Introduced with Inductive Coupling vs Light-Driven Coupling
In January 2019, the FDA approved a new and improved inductive radio power system for the Earlens Contact Hearing Solution which replaced the previous light-driven system. This article details the advantages of this change, and provides study results on the benefits of the inductive coupling system and how it is equal to or surpasses the light-driven system in several parameters.
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Toward Standardization of Basic Tinnitus Services by Audiologists
Audiologists should at least offer assessment of tinnitus patients and provide basic intervention for tinnitus through hearing aids and other devices, the provision of accurate tinnitus-care information, and/or referrals to other providers for tinnitus-related services. Here’s an easy-to-understand protocol for patients with tinnitus from Dr James Henry and colleagues.
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Reducing Hearing Aid Delay for Optimal Sound Quality: A New Paradigm in Processing
Sound quality in digital hearing aids is often compromised due to signal-processing delay and the resulting “comb-filter effect.” To change this, Widex recently introduced a new solution, designed particularly for mild-to-moderate hearing losses, which employs an ultralow delay. This results in a sound quality that has, until now, been unattainable in digital hearing aids. This article describes the physics of hearing aid delay, and presents a field study on the sound quality experience of the new system.
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Ida Institute Launches Online Course on Person-centered Care for Support Staff
The course provides an overall introduction to PCC, looks at the different elements and key benefits, and dives into the aspects that are particularly relevant to support staff.
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CDC Publishes PPE Optimization Guide
Given the shortages of PPE across the country, the guide is intended to maximize the efficiency of PPE when supplies are running low or stressed.
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CMS Issues Recommendations to Re-Open Health Care Systems in Areas with Low Incidence of COVID-19
The new recommendations are specifically targeted to communities that are in Phase 1 of the Guidelines for Opening Up America Again with low incidence or relatively low and stable incidence of COVID-19 cases.
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NIDCD Scientific Director, Andrew Griffith, Steps Down
A geneticist and otolaryngologist–head and neck surgeon, Griffith has spent two decades as a principal investigator at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), during which he led the NIDCD intramural program as the scientific director for 11 years.
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British Government Offers BSL Interpreters to Coronavirus Benefit Claimants
BSL users can now access Universal Credit through a video relay service provided by the Department for Work and Pensions. The move will support many of the 87,000 deaf BSL users currently living in the UK.
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Researchers Find Earlier Origin to Human Language Pathway
Scientists have discovered an earlier origin to the human language pathway in the brain, pushing back its evolutionary origin by at least 20 million years.
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Signia Launches Online Resource Center for Hearing Care Professionals
Visitors can access Signia’s series of webinars, instructing them on how to set up TeleCare and get the most out of this free solution, available for all hearing aids on the Signia Xperience, Nx, Primax, and Binax platforms.
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