Audiology in Palliative Care
I’ve had personal experience with hospice as close family members approached their end of life, and found the experiences that the hospice care offered were very helpful and comforting.
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Author: Stefani Kim
Starkey Hearing Innovation Expo Puts Futuristic Spin (and Inertial Sensors) on Hearing Aids
The Expo brought 3,200 dispensing professionals and their guests—one of the largest congregations of hearing healthcare business owners in the world—from over 40 different countries for four days of learning, inspiration, and fun.
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Is Nickel and Diming Your Patients Helping or Hurting Your Bottom Line?
At a time when this magazine and other publications have run articles that strongly endorse the unbundling of products from services and itemizing fees, many hearing care professionals have resisted. Here is the rationale behind one audiologist’s desire to remain “bundled.”
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Data Mining in the Era of Disruptive Technology
In this new era of disruptive technology, hearing care practices need valuable information to help increase the knowledge of decision makers. Primus Business Analytics is designed to help owners and managers effectively identify growth and development opportunities, understand best-practice protocols, the duration and scope of testing, and assist in fine-tuning in ways that would otherwise be virtually impossible.
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Mythbusters’ Myth #4: I Have to Discuss the Audiogram
How often have we looked into the faces of our clients and their families as we describe the audiogram in fine detail only to find anxious, blank, or confused faces staring back at us?
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‘Almost Nearly Perfect’ Adult Aural Rehabilitation: A Tour of Denmark in 1977
A trip back to Denmark in the late 1970s shows the extent to which adult aural rehabilitation was considered essential in the care of those with severe to profound hearing loss.
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Aural Rehabilitation for Older Adults
From our experience as clinicians who serve the age-80+ population and the emerging scientific evidence about this patient group, it is older patients who are most likely to benefit from aural rehabilitation (AR) programs, and therefore, more eager to attend AR classes. Future studies on AR and auditory training should focus upon this important population.
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UW Medicine Researchers Seeing Surge of STD-Related Hearing Loss
Though overall patient numbers are still relatively low, syphilis is rising steeply nationwide, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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Potential Biomarker for Noise-Induced Hearing Loss Identified by Sensorion, UConn Health
The laboratory study identified changes in prestin blood levels, an outer hair cell (OHC) protein, in a preclinical model with noise-induced hearing loss.
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Oticon Demonstrates Opn at AAA 2018
At AAA 2018, Oticon shared early results of studies that compared listening effort in normal hearing listeners with the listening effort of Opn 1 users.
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‘JAMA’ Study Shows Men Attending a Music Festival More Likely to Experience Temporary Hearing Loss
During the past two decades, the frequency of hearing loss among young people has increased and going to music concerts, clubs, and festivals may be part of the reason. Noise-induced hearing loss because of recreational noise exposure may be reduced by using earplugs.
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Children with Hearing Loss May Experience Higher Rate of Bullying
In the study, approximately 50% of the adolescents with hearing loss said they were picked on in at least one way in the past year. Previous studies show about 28% of adolescents in the general population report being bullied.
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Signia Launches Silk Nx Hearing Aids
Re-engineered to be 20% smaller than its predecessor, these ready-to-wear, completely-in-canal (CIC) devices now include key features of Signia’s Nx hearing aid technology that are designed to deliver the most natural hearing experience.
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Passings: Andy Rihs, Former Sonova CEO, BMC Owner
Rihs, who was born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1942, took over Phonak from his father in 1966 along with a partner, Beda Diethelm, and his brother, Hans-Ueil Rihs.
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Phonak Announces New North American Audiological Center of Excellence
The center will be led by newly appointed US Vice President of Audiology, Christine Jones, AuD, and will serve as the North American hub for independent research as well as ongoing collaborations with a network of top audiology experts and institutions around the globe.
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