Nuheara Expands in US, Announces Two Executive Appointments
Nuheara Limited announced the opening of a new US operational center and the promotion and hire of key executives John Luna and Tony Sulsona.
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Author: Stefani Kim
Listen Technologies Offers ‘ADA Compliant’ Assistive Listening Systems
The company has announced a dedicated Listen EVERYWHERE receiver which makes the Listen EVERYWHERE assistive listening system compliant with the “Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).”
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Reed Doughty Upgrades to Signia Pure Charge&Go AX Hearing Aids
Reed Doughty has been an athletic director and coach at Flatirons Academy in Westminster, Colo, almost as long as he played defense in football professionally. He’s also lived with degenerative hearing loss since he was a child.
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Plural Releases ‘Hearing Science Fundamentals, 2nd Ed’
The text is divided into four clear sections to cover everything from the physics of sound to the anatomy and physiology of the auditory pathway and beyond.
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Dr Robert Califf ‘Narrowly Confirmed’ By Senate to Lead FDA
Robert Califf received Senate confirmation as commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today.
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Starkey Adds Kyle Acker, AuD, as VP, US Commercial Sales
According to the company’s announcement, Acker will be responsible for developing and aligning Starkey’s sales strategies and growth objectives in the United States.
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Knowles Introduces New Balanced Armature Receiver for OTC Market
Knowles Corporation, a provider of advanced micro-acoustic microphones, speakers, audio solutions, high-performance capacitors, and RF products, announced the RAQ, a new medium-power balanced armature receiver developed for high-volume hearing health and TWS products.
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Healthcare Equality Network Requests Changes to Proposed OTC Hearing Aid Rule
The Healthcare Equality Network (HEN)—a group advocating for equal, quality access to healthcare for Black Americans—recently wrote a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposing changes to the OTC Hearing Aid Rule.
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Audioscan Launches Software Updates for Verifit2 and Axiom
Audioscan announced a new software updates for its Verifit2 and Axiom hearing instrument verification systems. Benefits include new tools for improving the efficiency and accuracy of Speechmap verification, counseling enhancements, and new BAHD devices for DSL-BCD target verification using the Verifit Skull Simulator, among other additions, according to the company.
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Frequent Use of OTC Analgesics Associated with Tinnitus
In a paper published in the “Journal of General Internal Medicine,” the researchers report that frequent use of NSAIDs or acetaminophen, or regular use of COX-2 inhibitors, was associated with higher risk of tinnitus.
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Utah’s Only Master’s Program to Teach ASL Eliminated
A master’s-level program for teaching American Sign Language (ASL) in Utah—reportedly the only one statewide—was eliminated last month, according to an article on the “KSL TV” website.
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2022 Safe-in-Sound Award Winners Announced
Northrop Grumman, St Augustine Site, will be presented with the award for Excellence in Hearing Loss Prevention, while Michael Lawrence, Jamie Anderson, and Rational Acoustics LLC win the honors for Innovation in Hearing Loss Prevention.
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A 10-Year Review of the Earlens System, Part 3: What’s the Big Deal about Audibility and Broader Audible Bandwidth?
This 3-part series is a high-level review of the data that has accumulated across more than 10 years of clinical research with the technology at the heart of the Earlens system. In Part 1, we dove into the speech understanding data to demonstrate how increasing the audible bandwidth of processed sound results in improved speech understanding performance from several perspectives. In Part 2, we discussed the perceptual benefits to naturalness and overall sound quality. Finally, in Part 3, we’ll deep dive into the restoration of audibility and how the Earlens approach to overall audibility improvement is reliably achieved in fittings via direct drive—as well as who may benefit from this.
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Beltone to Carry Jabra Enhance Plus Starting Feb 25
Beltone announced the upcoming availability of the Jabra Enhance Plus earbuds that will bring “hearing enhancement in a sleek design to help address the hearing needs of those with mild-to-moderate hearing loss” starting February 25 at select Beltone Hearing Care Centers nationwide.
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University Hospitals to Participate in Clinical Trial for Cochlear Implants
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and UH Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital are participating in a Cochlear Americas’-sponsored clinical trial for an implantable hearing device in children 5 to 11 years of age who have been born with hearing loss that may be caused by craniofacial abnormalities.
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