Henning Falster, director of meetings and events for Oticon, Inc who is known for his “flawlessly planned and executed professional conferences and events,” announced he will retire in August after 47 years with Oticon.
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While parenting deficiencies have long been blamed for the word gap, new UC Berkeley research implicates the economic context in which parenting takes place — in other words, the wealth gap.
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According to Inventis, this now makes its wireless probes “the lightest in the market at 50 g/0.11 lb.” Trumpet’s wireless probes are designed to improve patient’s comfort and give complete freedom when performing in-situ measurements.
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Echoes received by bats are so simple that a sound file of their calls can be compressed 90% without losing much information, according to a study published in the journal “PLOS Computational Biology.”
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Audioscan announced that its equipment software updates can now be confirmed and completed from a networked-connected PC via the Audioscan Noah Module. Verifit2 software version 4.26 or Axiom software version 1.32 software must first be installed on the equipment, along with Audioscan Noah Module software version 2.22, according to the announcement.
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New research led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Massachusetts Eye and Ear indicates that the blood pressure drug losartan may benefit patients with neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2), a hereditary condition associated with vestibular schwannomas, or noncancerous tumors along the nerves in the brain that are involved with hearing and balance.
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The University of Alberta-led (U of A)research followed more than 400 infants from the CHILD Cohort Study (CHILD) at its Edmonton site. Boys with a gut bacterial composition that was high in the bacteria Bacteroidetes at one year of age were found to have more advanced cognition and language skills one year later. The finding was specific to male children. An article detailing the research appears on the University’s website.
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Researchers at UC San Francisco have successfully developed a “speech neuroprosthesis” that has enabled a man with severe paralysis to communicate in sentences, translating signals from his brain to the vocal tract directly into words that appear as text on a screen.
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A $5,000 grant from Oticon, Inc has enabled Sertoma Inc to award five $1,000 college scholarships to students with hearing loss, the company announced.
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Earlens announced that it has won “Best Leadership Team” and Earlens CEO Bill Facteau has been named one of this year’s “Best CEOs for Diversity” among small and mid-sized companies by Comparably, a workplace culture and compensation site.
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The article mentions the brain changes that studies have shown may happen when hearing loss remains untreated, potentially causing visual and sensory processing centers to access the auditory cortex, which can result in deterioration of the cortex over time.
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Sonova Holding AG announced that Robert Woolley has been appointed GVP Hearing Instruments and member of the Management Board, effective April 1, 2022. At the same time, Martin Grieder will be appointed GVP Consumer Hearing within the Management Board.
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Unitron announced the launch of “Unitron For You,” a hearing assistance program developed to supply hearing aids and earmolds at minimal cost to patients who cannot otherwise afford hearing aids and do not qualify for Medicaid or any other program to obtain one or more hearing aids.
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New research from Irish medical device company, Neuromod Devices Ltd, has found that more than three quarters of people suffering from tinnitus in the United Kingdom have never received any treatment for their condition, according to an announcement on the company’s website. The poll also revealed that 67% of UK tinnitus sufferers don’t feel adequately informed about their condition.
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Recently, Good Morning America (ABC) aired a story about a recent announcement from the Biden administration regarding hearing aids. According to the story, the Biden administration has issued an executive order directed to the Department of Health and Human Services to do two things. First, to issue plans to “combat price gouging” regarding hearing aid costs within 45 days and second, to take action within 120 days to propose getting hearing aids available over the counter.
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