CILcare, a CRO specialized in hearing disorders, announced that it has been awarded the ISO 9001:2015 certification for its quality management system that includes the conduct of pharmacokinetics, efficacy, tolerance, and ototoxicity studies of drugs, gene and cell therapies, and implantable devices.
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The drug they’ve been focusing on, called RL-81, would be used soon after tinnitus develops, and recent research indicates it could remain effective much longer than they first expected.
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Intricon, an international joint development manufacturer engaged in designing, developing, engineering, manufacturing, and packaging miniature interventional, implantable, and body-worn medical devices, announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2021.
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The contest invites children ages 6-12 years old from countries around the world, including the United States, to create an invention to improve the quality of life for people with hearing loss.
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Bacteria found in children’s upper respiratory systems could help fight chronic middle ear infections, the leading cause of preventable hearing loss and deafness in Indigenous communities, according to an article posted on the University of Queensland website.
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Since 1946, Knowles has innovated precision hearing assistance and speech intelligibility in the hearing health industry with microphones, speakers, and hearing aid components and accessories.
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New research led by researchers from the University of Nottingham, has found that approximately 65 million adults in the EU suffer from tinnitus, and this figure will significantly rise over the next decade.
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To overcome the obstacles current CIs might cause during surgery, researchers at the Hamlyn Centre proposed a novel functional atraumatic self-shaping cochlear implant. It is a pre-curved CI that curls into the cochlea under the influence of body temperature.
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Audiologists and ear doctors simply don’t exist in some rural areas. There are 696 audiologists in North Carolina, and just 122 of them have mailing addresses in rural counties, according to data from the North Carolina Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists.
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“The Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Act,” passed in 2017, directs the FDA to create a new category for self-fit hearing aids—requiring no intervention from a licensed professional—for people over 18 with mild-to-moderate hearing loss.
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An international team of researchers led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) developed a new technique, combining world-leading citizen science bird monitoring data with recordings of individual species in the wild, to reconstruct the soundscapes of more than 200,000 sites over the last 25 years.
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The brain uses a shared mechanism for combining words from a single language and for combining words from two different languages, a team of neuroscientists has discovered. Its findings indicate that language switching is natural for those who are bilingual because the brain has a mechanism that does not detect that the language has switched, allowing for a seamless transition in comprehending more than one language at once.
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A peer-reviewed study by the audiology team at The National Centre for Audiology at Western University in Ontario evaluated the benefit of the extended bandwidth of the Earlens direct contact hearing technology.
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The offering of some open caption showtimes for all new release movies is intended to expand the overall movie-going audience, especially intended for those with hearing difficulties or where English is a second language.
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Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Free University of Brussels (VUB), and Sealcentre Pieterburen studied seal pups of only a few weeks old. The pups lowered the pitch of their voice when they heard louder noises. This vocal flexibility makes seals an excellent animal model for studying the evolution of human speech, according to an article published on the Max Planck website.
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