he Ida Institute announced the launch of a new resource, “Partnering for Great Hearing Care,” designed to help hearing care practitioners and people with hearing loss build trusting, productive partnerships.
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Starkey announced that Owner and Chairman, Bill Austin, has been named this year’s Career Achievement honoree in “Minneapolis/St Paul Business Journal’s” fifth annual Minnesota Manufacturing Awards.
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Australian author and academic David Tuffley challenges bold claims that a neuroprosthetic device developed by Elon Musk’s Neuralink start-up company could “cure tinnitus” within five years, in an article on “The Conversation” website.
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USound, a provider of micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) loudspeakers for hearables and wearables, announced that it “is on a rapid path to replacing balanced armature microspeakers with MEMS speakers in most portable consumer electronics by 2025.”
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In this role, Franklin will continue to lead brand strategy, corporate marketing and communications, digital marketing, and public relations, in addition to her global marketing responsibilities. Franklin also joins the Executive Team at Listen Technologies.
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Oticon MyMusic, already a CES 2022 Innovation Awards winner, received a second award for “Best New Hearing Aid Technology Solution” from the 2022 MedTech Breakthrough Awards. Oticon also secured a 2022 Red Dot Design Awards for Oticon Play PX in the Medical Devices category and for Oticon SmartCharger in the Technology category.
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A new nationally representative study published online in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease...
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Tinnitus at the Lake is organized for June 30 and July 1 in the picturesque Herrsching near Munich in Germany by the Tinnitus Research Initiative (TRI). On the other hand, the 6th International Conference on Hyperacusis and Misophonia (ICHM) is planned for July 1-2 at Birkbeck College, London’s Bloomsbury.
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Edited by Aniruddha Deshpande and James Hall, III, the new textbook provides up-to-date and evidence-based information on tinnitus prevention, assessment, and management.
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Mild-to-moderate hearing loss is a difficult reality that millions of Americans struggle with, which is why the availability of over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids is exciting for those who are impacted by hearing loss. While making OTC hearing aids more accessible is a promising step for consumers, we at NCL would be remiss if we didn’t underscore our concerns around the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) proposed OTC hearing regulations as they currently exist.
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Hearing loss due to aging, noise, and certain cancer therapy drugs and antibiotics has been irreversible because scientists have not been able to reprogram existing cells to develop into the outer and inner ear sensory cells — essential for hearing — once they die. But Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered a single master gene that programs ear hair cells into either outer or inner ones, overcoming a major hurdle that had prevented the development of these cells to restore hearing, according to new research published in “Nature.”
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Starkey announced it has named Jake Spano as the new Director of Corporate Social Responsibility...
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WSA announced its 2021/22 Financial Earnings and reported “strong growth in revenue and earnings in Q2 of the financial year 2021/22.”
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GN announced its 2022 Interim Report Q1, which includes results from GN Store Nord, GN Audio, and GN Hearing.
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Frequency Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: FREQ), a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on harnessing the body’s innate biology to repair or reverse damage caused by a broad range of degenerative diseases, announced that it will provide student conference sponsorship for a second year to the Future of Hearing Healthcare Conference, which will allow up to 75 audiology graduate students to attend the event at no cost.
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