The new Lexie B1 Hearing Aids will be Powered by Bose, allowing wearers to fit, program, and control their hearing aids — without a doctor visit, hearing test, or prescription, according to the companies’ announcement.
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The Further, Objective, Clinical, Understanding Study (FOCUS) is intended to confirm Cognivue total scoring, age-specific normative ranges, test-retest reliability, training effect, sensitivity, and specificity as compared to other frequently used paper and digital cognitive screening assessments.
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A new study published in “PNAS” highlights a newly identified auditory sensitivity mechanism that could temporarily reduce sensitivity of the auditory system to regulating loud sounds that can cause irreversible damage.
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In her new role as Starkey Chief Marketing Officer, Steinbring oversees the marketing team to help customers leverage new tools and resources, launch products around the world, and effectively communicate the value and benefit of better hearing technology to customers and the patients they serve.
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Faculty in the University of North Texas (UNT) College of Health and Public Service Department of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology received a $300,000 grant from the Hearing Industry Research Consortium to determine how emotions, psychological well-being, social relationships, stress, and other factors impact whether adults continue to use hearing aids once they’re purchased, according to an announcement from UNT.
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Under the theme “What does sound mean to you?” four professional artists have created designs that will form limited-edition covers for the MED-EL hearing implant audio processors.
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This year, Oticon announced that a $5,000 grant from the company has enabled Sertoma Inc to award college scholarships to five outstanding students with hearing loss. The Oticon-funded scholarships will help five students to acquire the education they need to achieve their goals.
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Signia announced that it has partnered with the Dallas Cowboys to raise awareness for hearing health – an important aspect of physical well-being.
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In a neuroimaging study published in PLOS Biology, researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics and Radboud University in Nijmegen report that the brain encodes the structure of sentences (‘the vase is red’) and phrases (‘the red vase’) into different neural firing patterns.
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The latest research from the labs of Penn scientists Paulo Arratia and Douglas Jerolmack was an answer to “a call for help,” says Arratia. It was 2020, and the Philadelphia Orchestra, like so many cultural institutions, had suspended performances due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Neuromod Devices Ltd has reached an agreement with Specialklinikken Borgå ApS, a Danish provider of private care for tinnitus, to make its Lenire device available in Denmark.
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From airplanes to apartments, most spaces are now designed with sound-absorbing materials that help dampen the droning, echoing, and murmuring sounds of everyday life. But most of the acoustic materials that can cancel out human voices, traffic, and music are made from plastic foams that aren’t easily recycled or degraded.
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Based on more than four years of user feedback and requests, the new Audio CARL and CARL platform help “expand the use cases and value in which the CARL manikins can provide to hands-on education, research, and development of hearing technologies, and the provision of hearing aids in hearing clinics, all while fitting in better with clinical workflows,” according to the company’s announcement.
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Signia announced it will support the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) National Veterans Golden Age Games (NVGAG) as a Gold Sponsor.
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With a vision of rapidly scaling and delivering accessible communication services to deaf, hard-of-hearing, and diverse communities worldwide, Sorenson announced a new relationship with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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