Student Scholarships are available and will include registration, a $120 travel stipend to offset expenses, and a student membership in ACI Alliance until graduation.
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Since 2016, the Ida Institute Research Committee has awarded research grants to projects that investigate the outcomes of using Ida Institute methods and tools and develop evidence to show the effect of person-centered hearing care.
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According to the agreement, Amplicom USA will develop sales and distribution channels, and provide fulfillment and support services, for Alango’s “Wear & Hear” line of assistive hearing products in the United States and Canada.
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The Zounds product portfolio featured on Walmart.com includes the Vizara, a 16-Channel digital rechargeable hearing system; the Prezia, a 16-Channel premium digital hearing aid, and the Hearing in a Box digital RIC hearing aid.
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By administering an experimental chemical—identified in a separate UCSF lab in 2013—that acts on the pathway linking this gene to hearing loss, they found that they could prevent noise-induced deafness in the mice.
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The study is said to document the “co-construction of the effectiveness of fitting a person with hearing aids” in relation to the profession. Additionally, the study stresses the importance of the hearing aid professional and their role in educating patients about their hearing loss, as well as the maintenance and tuning of their hearing care devices.
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The new plan—available during the 2019 Annual Enrollment Period—will allow Blue Shield 65 Plus SM and 65 Plus Choice (HMO) members to get a “routine hearing exam” with no copay as well as access to Vista hearing aids for what Blue Shield calls a “low copay.”
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Earwax MD for Kids reportedly uses a patent-pending technology with completely new ingredients, designed to clean away earwax from the ear canal.
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Proceeds from this round of financing will be allocated to continued product development and the enhanced, 2019 commercial rollout, according to the company’s announcement.
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Hearing Heroes was adopted by the Progressive Agriculture Foundation to present at its Safety Day events across the country, which teach kids safe farming practices. As Progressive Agriculture offers McCullagh’s hearing program at more of its training sites, Hearing Heroes could reach as many as 100,000 people annually.
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Hearing Tracker is an independent consumer review platform for hearing aids, hearing providers, and hearing centers. This creative collaboration is said to help unify web reviews and TV to form a combination that not only helps clients “build their online presence” but also helps influence client’s patients while they wait.
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Since arterial stiffness can be reduced by antihypertensive drugs, and likely also lifestyle interventions, these findings suggest that at-risk patients may have the power to prevent or delay the onset of dementia.
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Held on October 13 at the OticonNext Conference in Orlando, the Awards ceremony recognized 13 remarkable individuals in the Student, Adult, Advocacy, and Hearing Practitioner categories who are helping to change the perception of what it means to have a hearing loss, Oticon announced.
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The systematic reviews were based on several health outcomes—cardiovascular and metabolic effects, annoyance, effects on sleep, cognitive impairment, hearing impairment and tinnitus, adverse birth outcomes, and quality of life, mental health, and well-being—and the effectiveness of interventions in reducing noise exposure and negative health impacts.
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The POD is said to utilize Humavox’s ETERNA® technology to help provide a faster wireless charge, and is designed to accommodate any rechargeable hearing aid system requirement.
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