A Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro user lamented his recent experience with the wireless earbuds—which eventually resulted in his experiencing a full-blown ear infection—in an article on the “Android Central” website.
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The Audiology Practice Standards Organization (APSO), the collaboration of audiologists working to establish standard practices in the profession, has announced the results of the 2021 elections for the APSO Board of Directors.
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Widex USA Inc announced its “first-ever rechargeable behind-the-ear hearing aid offering PureSound, LED indicator, telecoil, and direct streaming to iPhone and Android.” With the new Widex MOMENT BTE R D, patients with “hearing loss from minimal up to severe-to-profound can now benefit from Widex’s unique natural sound processing.”
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The 24-month study will assess the practicality of cognitive screening to quantify changes in cognitive function before and after hearing aid fittings and auditory training, according to the company’s announcement.
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A team of engineers and clinicians have used 3D printing to create intricate replicas of human cochleae and combined it with machine learning to advance clinical predictions of ‘current spread’ inside the ear for cochlear implant (CI) patients. ‘Current spread’ or electrical stimulus spread, as it is also known, affects CI performance and leads to ‘blurred’ hearing for users, but no adequate testing models have existed for replicating the problem in human cochleae – until now.
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People are invited to cast their votes for the 12 finalists who represent the “best of the best” from this year’s nominations in each of four categories – Student, Adult, Advocacy, and Practitioner.
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Redux announced that its professional hearing instrument drying system has been selected as an honoree for the Consumer Electronics Show 2022 Innovation Awards in the Accessibility category.
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With this partnership, NSU is joining 31 other organizations in the Person-Centered Hearing Network (PCHN), a global coalition of key stakeholders in audiology, representing professionals, academia, and patient organizations – working together to improve hearing healthcare at a global scale.
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Young people who consider themselves ‘multilingual’ tend to perform better across a wide range of subjects at school, regardless of whether they are actually fluent in another language, new research shows.
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Maintaining the outlook provided at the start of the financial year 2021/22, Sonova expects consolidated sales to increase by 24-28% in 2021/22. Compared to pre-pandemic levels in the first half of the financial year 2019/20, this represents a 2-year compound annual growth rate of 8.5%.
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Knowles Corporation, a provider of micro-acoustic microphones and speakers, audio solutions, capacitors, and RF products, announced that it has been named a CES 2022 Innovation Awards Honoree for Knowles IA8201 AISonic DSP and AITransparency+ from Chatable for True Wireless Stereo (TWS).
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Providing some basic standards of support will greatly increase diversity in fields of science and medicine, a group of hard-of- hearing and deaf scientists argue in a perspective published in the journal Frontiers in Education.
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A new study from Keck Medicine of USC links this type of inner ear nerve damage to a condition known as endolymphatic hydrops, a buildup of fluid in the inner ear, showing that these both occur at noise exposure levels people might encounter in their daily life.
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Oticon MyMusic, a music program “tailor-made to help people with hearing loss rediscover their love of music,” has been named a CES 2022 Innovation Awards Honoree in the Software and Mobile Apps category.
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Hearing First, a nonprofit dedicated to providing resources, support, and stories of hope for families with a child who is deaf or hard of hearing and seeking a Listening and Spoken Language (LSL) outcome, has received two 2021 WebAwards from the Web Marketing Association.
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