‘The Cut’ Profiles Bradley Cooper’s Ear Doctor from ‘A Star is Born’
In an article published in “The Cut,” Dr William Slatterly III of House Ear Clinic in Los Angeles, discusses how his first role in a major movie came to be.
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Author: Stefani Kim
Phonak Marvel Now Available with Telecoil and SlimTip Titanium
The Audéo M-312T, Audéo M-13T, and new Titanium SlimTips will be available as of February 26, 2019. All devices will be fully RogerDirect compatible, which is expected to be available later this fall.
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WHO Announces Several Hearing-related Initiatives in Advance of World Hearing Day
World Hearing Day will take place on March 3, 2019.
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Vanderbilt University Researchers Plan to Study Personalized Cochlear Implant Programming for Children
Children currently receive the same type of cochlear implant programming as adults even though a child’s ability to process speech information and discriminate pitch is much less developed.
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Passings: Dr Noel Cohen, Co-founder NYU Langone Cochlear Implant Center, MD, Professor
Dr Cohen was a cochlear implant pioneer helping to set the stage for the extraordinary changes and expansion in the field to serve children and adults with a range of hearing loss characteristics. He was a global leader and gave lectures and conducted training all over the world.
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ASHA, AAA, and ADA Agree to Joint Legislative Initiative on Medicare Legislation
For Medicare beneficiaries who need hearing health care services, it is critical that audiology services be positioned in this new environment and that the full scope of practice for audiologists be appropriately recognized.
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New Bills in California, Nevada Aim to Make Hearing Aid Coverage for Children Mandatory
Legislators in both California and Nevada have introduced bills to make it mandatory for insurers to cover the cost of hearing aids for children, according to articles in the “Santa Monica Daily Press” and “Las Vegas Review-Journal.”
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Researchers Restore Hearing via Gene Therapy in Deaf Mouse Model
Researchers have managed to restore hearing in an adult mouse model of DFNB9 deafness, a hearing disorder that represents one of the most frequent cases of congenital genetic deafness
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Tell More, Sell More; The Art of Storytelling
It turns out something surprising happens when information comes via a story rather than via simple facts. More of our brains light up. When we hear a story, the neural activity increases fivefold. It’s like turning on all the lights in the house.
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GN Audio to Acquire Altia Systems Inc
The acquisition of Altia Systems will allow GN Audio to expand into integrated audio and video communications solutions, supporting companies’ collaboration and meeting efficiency.
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William Demant Reports 6% Growth from Previous Year in 2018 Annual Report
In William Demant’s 2018 Annual Report, the company details consolidated revenue for 2018 of DKK 13,937 million (approximately USD$2.1 billion), corresponding with what they say is a 6% growth rate from 2017. Organic growth was up by 7 percentage points, while acquisitive growth increased by 2 percentage points and exchange rate effects with -3 percentage points.
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William Demant to Change Name to Demant A/S
The change of company name and brand follows the corporate strategy that aims at positioning Demant as the industry’s “leading hearing healthcare group, to create life-changing differences through hearing health.” A clear and compelling Demant corporate brand will help support this ambition, according to the company.
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Ear Community Announces Upcoming Family Picnics Across the US
Ear Community is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that helps Microtia and Atresia families around the world.
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Custom Earmolds and Plugs: A Formula of Area Over Love
This may sound like a cheap romantic novel or a new soap opera but “area over love” is an important acoustic principle that rears its romantic head in a number of clinical scenarios that are encountered, almost every day.
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Toward Differential Diagnosis in Adult Hearing Healthcare
If the inquisitive individual starts asking about the why of his/her hearing loss—the actual physical reasons and possible proof—and what anatomical structures are involved (and/or by how much), I’m afraid most dispensing professionals necessarily resort to studious equivocation. Although important strides have been made, routine differential diagnosis remains something of a chimera when it comes to hearing loss.
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