MedRx Founder Ron Buck Announces Retirement
Ron Buck, President and Founder of MedRx, Inc, has announced he will retire after 38 years in the hearing healthcare space and 28 years at MedRx.
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Author: Stefani Kim
Starkey Announces New Features for Evolv AI
Starkey announced that it “continues to lead the hearing industry into a new era with Evolv AI, Starkey’s award-winning line of hearing aids.” Now with “clearer sound quality, more background noise reduction, improved 2-Way Audio capabilities, and a simplified remote fitting portal, we’re making it more effortless to experience Starkey Sound wherever you are,” the company says.
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Purdue University Introduces Closed Captioning for Theater
Purdue University Theatre Department announced that it has engaged Gamiotics to implement a new technology at shows on campus, allowing deaf and hearing-impaired audiences to enjoy live performances through the use of closed captioning in the palm of their hands.
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Imaging Test May Pinpoint Age-related Hearing Loss
A well-known imaging test that radiologists use to monitor blood flow from the heart may soon be deployed to pinpoint what part of the ear is experiencing age-related hearing loss, according to an article published on the University of South Florida’s website.
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Self-determination and ASL Speakers
Promoting self-determination is a way to give young people agency in their education and goals for their future, and the research highlights how self-determination assessment can be used to support deaf youth to communicate about their self-determination and have better educational, career, health, and life outcomes, according to researchers.
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Oticon Launches Oticon Own Hearing Aids
Oticon announced the launch of Oticon Own, a new family of custom hearing aids with BrainHearing technology “designed to provide a fully customized fit for ultimate comfort.”
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Lower Brain Tissue Oxygenation Can Cause Falls
Researchers from Mercer’s Institute for Successful Ageing (MISA) and the Department of Medical Physics at St James’s Hospital and Trinity College Dublin have discovered that brain tissue oxygenation is lower in frailer older adults with multiple health conditions (multi-morbidity), putting them at risk of faints and falls.
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Researchers Find Crocodiles Can Create New Hair Cells
Impaired hearing affects over 1.2 billion people worldwide. But crocodiles, who live almost as long as humans and can surpass 70 years of age, have good hearing throughout their lives. One reason is because crocodiles can create new hair cells, and a research group from Uppsala University is now on the path to finding out why.
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AuDConnex and RiseENT Announce Michael Lowery as VP, Sales
According to the announcement, Lowery has extensive experience working in the hearing care industry and is an expert when it comes to coaching private practice owners to improve their business model to successfully increase revenue.
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Envision and Aira Partner on Visual Interpreting Services
Envision, the assistive technology innovator, announced its partnership with Aira, a company that provides visual interpreting services, adding the live, professional service to the Envision Glasses.
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Phonak Launches Lumity Hearing Aid Platform
Phonak, a global provider of hearing solutions, announced that its next generation of hearing aids will be powered by its latest Lumity platform.
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NAD Recognizes Pennsylvania for COVID-19 Accessibility Briefings
A recent national study of states’ efforts to deliver critically important public health information to deaf and hard-of-hearing individual throughout 2020 ranked Pennsylvania 10th for its effective use of ASL interpreters.
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EUHA 66th Congress Presents ‘Future Friday’ Event
The European Union of Hearing Aid Acousticians (EUHA) announced Future Friday, what the organization says is “the forward-looking event set-up of #EUHA2022! ” It is scheduled to be held on Friday, October 14, 2022, as part of the 66th International Congress of Hearing Aid Acousticians.
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HearWorks Earns a Spot on ‘Inc. 5000 List’ for 2022
Founded in 2016, the company rebranded from AuDStandard to HearWorks in early 2020 and “bolstered its services with the addition of marketing, automation, and coaching programs.”
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GN Releases Company’s Interim Report Q2 2022
GN announced in its Interim Report Q2 2022 that GN Store Nord in Q2 2022 delivered 29% revenue growth of which 8% was organic, driven by strong Enterprise and Hearing performance.
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