Signia Active X Named Finalist in 2021 Digiday Awards
Signia announced that it has been named a finalist in the 2021 Digiday Awards in the Best Product Launch Campaign category for Signia Active X.
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Author: Stefani Kim
HLAA 2022 to Take Place June 23-25 in Tampa
The Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) 2022 Convention is back in-person in beautiful Tampa, Florida from June 23-25, 2022! During the HLAA 2022 Convention, meet with all the exhibitors in our exhibit hall, which is free and open to the public.
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Gene Therapy for Hearing Loss Reversal
Hearing loss has been linked to mutations in at least 100 different genes, but up to 16% of genetic hearing loss can be traced to just one gene, STRC, the second most common genetic cause. A first-of-its-kind gene therapy technique developed at Boston Children’s Hospital successfully replaced the mutated protein, stereocilin, in the inner ear and reversed severe hearing loss in mice — sometimes to normal levels of hearing.
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‘NY Times’ Article Breaks Down Hidden Hearing Loss
The term “hidden hearing loss” can refer to a person’s inability to discern and understand conversation in a noisy setting, such as a bar or restaurant. Also known as the “cocktail party effect,” it can be difficult to diagnose as people who go to an audiologist complaining of hearing loss often score normally on an audiogram, the standard way of measuring hearing function. In a recent “New York Times” article, writer Emma Yasinski discusses the science behind hidden hearing loss as well as potential treatments.
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Ida Institute Partners with Canadian Hard of Hearing Association
With the partnership, CHHA also becomes the 32nd member of the Person-centered Hearing Network. The global network is comprised of hearing care professionals and representative from professional organizations, patient organizations, and academia. The PCHN collaborates to implement person-centered care and to give people the knowledge, skills, and confidence to better manage hearing loss.
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Sonova Nominates Julie Tay for Election As Board Member
Sonova Holding AG, a provider of hearing solutions, announced that as part of medium-term succession planning its Board of Directors will nominate Julie Tay as a new independent Board member for election at the next Annual General Meeting (AGM) in June 2022.
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Jury Awards $22.5M to Plaintiff in 3M Military Earplug Case
A jury in Tallahassee, Florida awarded a plaintiff in the 3M lawsuit $22.5 million, the largest amount yet in a class action lawsuit against the Maplewood, Minn-based company, according to the Star Tribune. The lawsuit alleges that plaintiffs suffered hearing damage as a result of undisclosed design flaws in 3M’s dual-ended Combat Arms Earplugs, Version 2 (CAEv2).
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‘NPR’ Article Explains Hearing Loss from Concussion
Concussions are known to cause symptoms such as headaches, nausea, dizziness, and confusion, however, a mild brain injury can also making discerning speech in a noisy environment difficult, as NPR science correspondent Jon Hamilton details in a recent “Short Wave” episode.
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Sign Language Tool May Improve Medical Communication
In an article in “Medical Device Network,” writer Abi Millar profiles SignLab Amsterdam, a University of Amsterdam research lab developing a machine translation tool to convert speech into sign language.
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Baby Talk Helps Infants Learn to Produce Speech
A new study suggests that when parents baby talk to their infants, they might be helping them learn to produce speech.
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AAL Wins CES Innovation Award for PYOUR Eccellenza AI
Netherlands-based audio software company Absolute Audio Labs (AAL) announced that the company has been awarded a CES Innovation Award for its PYOUR Eccellenza AI premium+. This series of hearing aids consists of a Hearable and a RIC reference design.
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A 10-Year Review of the Earlens System, Part 1: Speech Understanding and Broader Audibility
This 3-part series serves as a high-level review of the data that has accumulated over the course of more than 10 years of clinical research with the Earlens system. Part 1 dives into the speech understanding data and how increasing the bandwidth of processed sound in Earlens results in improved speech understanding from a number of perspectives. Part 2 will discuss the perceptual benefits to naturalness and overall sound quality. Finally, Part 3 will explore how the research evidence can be explained in terms of the restoration of specific and overall loudness via the CAM2HF fitting algorithm, and how this approach to overall audibility improvement is reliably achieved in Earlens fittings via direct drive.
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Starkey’s Sara Burdak Named to ‘2021 Notable Women’ List
Starkey Chief Audiology Officer and Executive Vice President of Marketing Sara Burdak, AuD, has been named to “Twin Cities Business Magazine’s” ‘2021 Notable Women in Manufacturing’ list.
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Synchrony’s CareCredit Solution Integrated into Sycle
CareCredit, a Synchrony (NYSE:SYF) solution and provider of promotional financing for patients, announced that it is now integrated into Sycle, a practice management platform for the hearing industry. The new integration is designed to help hearing healthcare practices save time, increase productivity, and provide patients with a financing option that makes it easier to move forward with the care they need for improved hearing health.
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ACI Alliance Supports Passage of 2021 ‘EDHI Act’
The House of Representatives passed “HR 5561, the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Act of 2021,” on a 410-17 vote. The bill would reauthorize the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) programs at the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the ACI Alliance said in its announcement.
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