The purchase sees Neurosensory join Sonova sister companies, Connect Hearing and Blamey Saunders hears, to collectively offer “exceptional expertise and clinical excellence, to empower Australians in their hearing health.”
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Starkey announced it is entering into a research collaboration with researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine to study the use of hearing aids equipped with embedded sensors and artificial intelligence to track and mitigate health risks as well as enhance speech intelligibility in challenging listening environments.
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Fennec Pharmaceuticals Inc, a company developing a drug to help prevent cisplatin-related hearing loss in children, announced that it expects the FDA to decline its marketing application for Pedmark, “Reuters” reported.
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Knowles and Lucid Hearing, a hearing aid company, have partnered to bring the hearing health industry the Westone Audio High Fidelity DWT, a hearing aid with a Receiver in Canal (RIC) that delivers “exceptional sound quality for music listening.”
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The perception of gender in children’s voices is of special interest to researchers, because voices of young boys and girls are very similar before the age of puberty.
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Black Americans 65 years and older have much better hearing than their White counterparts, according to a recent study published in the “Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.”
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Speech sounds elicit comparable neural responses and stimulate the same region in the brain of humans, macaques, and guinea pigs, a multidisciplinary group of University of Pittsburgh researchers reported in the journal “eNeuro.” The finding could help pave the way for better understanding and diagnosis of auditory processing deficits.
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The International Best in Business Awards “recognizes and honors the world’s best in organizational performance, products and services, innovations, executives, and management teams from every major industry in the world.”
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Most people around the world agree that the made-up word ‘bouba’ sounds round in shape, and the made-up word ‘kiki’ sounds pointy – a discovery that may help to explain how spoken languages develop, according to a new study.
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In this nationwide effort, the aim is to donate $1 million worth of ReSound ONE hearing aids in 2022 to people with hearing loss who are experiencing financial hardship.
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The third quarter of this year was a second consecutive record as the hearing instrument market continues to recover from the effects of the pandemic according to an announcement published on the British Irish Hearing Instrument Manufacturers Association (BIHIMA).
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The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) announced that its 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) resources for audiologists and speech-language pathologists (SLPs) are now available on the Medicare outpatient payment webpage.
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Perez has been a vital leader within Starkey’s Human Resources Department since joining the team in 2010, the company says. During her 11 years with Starkey, she earned a track record of accomplishment through her work in the US and with its 28 global facilities in aligning global business strategies.
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Dave Amato, lead guitarist of REO Speedwagon, shares his experiences (and audiograms!) regarding in-ear monitors that have helped save his residual hearing. “Dr Santucci made it very clear to me that I had to change and start wearing both earpieces if I wanted to save my hearing,” says Amato. “…It changed my life.”
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Is singing worse than talking when it comes to how many particles are being emitted? Yes, according to the study. And the louder one talks or sings, the worse the emissions. A person’s age and whether they are male or female also affects their respiratory emissions, with males and adults emitting more airborne particles, on average, than females and minors.
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