Phonak Launches Titanium FitGuide
The tool is made of pure medical-grade titanium and has two modular ends—one for patients who require a moderate receiver and another for those who need a power receiver.
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Author: Stefani Kim
Tulane Researcher Awarded $1.8 Million Grant for Hearing Loss Study
Researchers will use hearing-impaired and normal-hearing mice to study auditory information processing at the synapse level.
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Researchers Find Indicator That May Predict Early Dementia
As chronic cell stress is an important factor in the development of neurodegenerative diseases, FGF21 could potentially be suitable as a biomarker for the pre-symptomatic detection of diseases such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s.
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AuDConnex Appoints Paul Harkness Executive Vice President
AuDConnex announced the addition of Paul Harkness to their team as executive vice president. Harkness has more than two decades of experience in the hearing care industry.
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Akouos Raises $50 Million in Series A Financing; Forms Scientific Advisory Board
Akouos is developing targeted adeno-associated viral vector (AAV)-based gene therapies for sensorineural hearing loss, which results from dysfunction or damage to sensory cells and/or nerve fibers of the inner ear.
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Tunity Announces SDK for Audio Streaming Device
Tunity SDK for Audio is said to gives companies that service the hearing impaired the ability to embed a white labeled version of Tunity’s patented deep-learning TV audio streaming technology directly into their customer-facing apps.
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2018 Oticon Audiology Summer Camp Focused on Future Careers
For more than 21 years, the Oticon Audiology Summer Camp has provided graduate students in audiology with a unique opportunity to learn from and network with leading researchers, experienced practitioners, Oticon staff, and other new hearing care professionals.
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Frequency Therapeutics Announces Phase 1/2 Clinical Trial for Hearing Restoration Drug
Progenitor Cell Activation (PCA) utilizes small molecules to awaken dormant progenitor cells already in the body and reportedly has the opportunity to address numerous degenerative diseases such as hearing loss, demyelinating diseases, skin disorders, and gastrointestinal conditions.
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How Will OTC Deregulation Affect the Six Major Global Hearing Aid Companies?
With the deadline for the FDA to publish guidelines related to over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids looming—the government agency has until 2021, but some say it may be as early as the middle of 2019—many are wondering how that will affect the six major global hearing aid companies.
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PH Imbalance in Brain Cells May Be Related to Alzheimer’s, Johns Hopkins Research Shows
One root of Alzheimer’s disease may be a simple imbalance in acid-alkaline—or pH—chemistry inside endosomes, the nutrient and chemical cargo shuttles in cells.
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Samsung Announces Hearing Loss Detection App and New Initiative
uSound for Samsung is an initiative designed to bring technology to people with hearing loss—to help detect the risk of hearing loss and thus improve their quality of life in such essential aspects as communication and education.
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Study Challenges Evolution of How Humans Acquired Language
A gene implicated in affecting speech and language, FOXP2, is held up as a “textbook” example of positive selection on a human-specific trait.
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Oticon Government Services Attends 119th VFW Convention
Oticon Government Services team members met with veterans and military service members from active, guard, and reserve forces to answer questions and provide hands-on experience with Oticon Opn™rechargeable and Oticon ConnectClip.
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FCC Proposes Automating Phone Captioning
As part of a July 18 announcement in the Federal Register on a new proposed ruling, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)—the government agency regulating interstate communications by radio, TV, satellite, cable, and wire—has indicated an interest in utilizing automated speech recognition (ASR) as an alternative to live captioning assistants (CAs) for Internet Protocol Captioned Telephone Service (IP CTS), making the use of CAs optional.
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Ten Minutes of Social Interaction Per Day May Improve Dementia Care
The Wellbeing and Health for people with Dementia (WHELD) program trained care home staff to increase social interaction from two minutes a day to 10, combined with a program of personalized care. It involves simple measures such as talking to residents about their interests and involving them in decisions around their care.
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