According to the agreement, Oaktree will sell Alango’s “Wear & Hear” line of personal hearing devices via their catalog, online store, and specialty channels in North America.
Read More
Following a similar pattern to 2017, NHS sales in Q4 were considerably above the rest of the year in terms of quantity, according to the BIHIMA report. The BIHIMA reports NHS sales were down 0.3% from the same period last year, though private sales continued their strong performance with hearing instrument sales up 5.2% from the same period last year.
Read More
“Our multiple presentations at ARO demonstrate our broad pipeline in neurotology with data presented in support of our product candidates for Ménière’s disease, tinnitus, hearing loss, and otoprotection,” said Kathie Bishop, PhD, chief scientific officer of Otonomy.
Read More
The update of the TympStar Pro features two new testing options: a Multi-Frequency test and a Patulous Eustachian Tube test.
Read More
An alarming 21% of respondents experience tinnitus symptoms such as ringing, buzzing, or persistent noise in the ears. Among these respondents, less than half have seen a doctor or hearing care professional about their symptoms, 25% do not think that they need to, and worryingly, almost 40% are not concerned about their overall hearing health, despite nearly half reporting that they do not have good hearing.
Read More
Researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center are reportedly the first to study how deaf infants process visual stimuli compared to hearing infants and found they took significantly longer to become familiar with new objects.
Read More
The ability to send highly targeted audio signals over the air could be used to communicate across noisy rooms or warn individuals of a dangerous situation such as an active shooter.
Read More
The workshop utilized a sound stage that allowed the CSDR students to “feel” vibrations from rockets, stars, galaxies, supernovae, and even remnants of the Big Bang itself. The members of the team have made their materials public and written up their experiences to help teachers and other educators worldwide to similarly engage the deaf community in STEM activities.
Read More
Google announced the release of two new features for Android phones, Live Transcribe and Sound Amplifier, as reported by “The Verge.”
Read More
SoundSense Learn takes this anonymized input from every user, collects it in the cloud, and then Widex experts analyze it to create a better experience for all users.
Read More
A study at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics examined the influence of different information on the evaluation of music by listeners.
Read More
Timm, who has served as Chief Operating Officer of the company for the past two years, takes over the role from Steve Mahon, who has stepped down.
Read More
Veterans alleging that they have permanent hearing loss and tinnitus as a result of defective combat earplugs sold by 3M—the Maplewood, Minn-based conglomerate corporation—have filed at least 11 lawsuits against the company this month, according to an article in the “Star Tribune.”
Read More
More than 1,000 Cochlear™ Nucleus® Implant and Baha® System recipients and their families from the United States and Canada will come together at the four-day convention to celebrate the joys, challenges, and personal triumphs of overcoming hearing loss, while improving their hearing performance.
Read More
The team found that hearing loss was associated with higher risk of subjective cognitive decline. Compared with men with no hearing loss, the relative risk of cognitive decline was 30% higher among men with mild hearing loss, 42% higher among men with moderate hearing loss, and 54% higher among men with severe hearing loss who did not use hearing aids.
Read More