Signia Active’s earbud design helps ensure “better hearing without the stigma, while its portable rechargeability and Bluetooth connectivity enable wearers to remain connected and perform their best all day long.”
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An experimental 3D device used to treat hearing loss was recently approved by the FDA to treat an elderly man’s rare hearing loss, according to an article on the “Nextgov” website.
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Inventis, a company that develops and manufactures audiology equipment, announced the launch of its US-wide e-commerce platform, www.inventis.shop. According to Inventis, the platform was built to make it “easier and faster for any customer to shop.”
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People with hearing difficulties experience heightened self-reported depression, loneliness, and memory problems during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an online survey of the over 70s.
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Nearly every older adult was prescribed prescription drugs that increased their risk of falling in 2017, according to new University at Buffalo research.
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The capability, known as Right2You, builds on the home-delivered hearing health care model developed by UnitedHealthcare Hearing, adding a virtual care component that is designed to help reduce the need for in-person appointments for hearing aid adjustments and support.
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Though noise pollution has previously been linked to hearing loss, a number of research studies from the last 10 years have increasingly suggested a connection between noise and heart ailments.
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A new study published in the journal “Reading and Writing” shows that the more people read any kind of fiction — even mass market stuff sniffily derided as pulp — the better their language skills are likely to be.
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WS Audiology announced the appointment of Jennifer Wright, AuD to Senior Director of Partner Marketing to lead an expert marketing team serving hearing aid brands in the US.
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MED-EL announced the launch of its all-new diametric magnet with S-Vector technology. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved S-Vector magnet is a feature of SYNCHRONY 2 cochlear implants that ship starting March 16.
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Sara Mamo is currently conducting a study of age-related hearing loss in people with mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.
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A University at Buffalo researcher’s recent work on dyslexia has unexpectedly produced a startling discovery which clearly demonstrates how the cooperative areas of the brain responsible for reading skill are also at work during apparently unrelated activities, such as multiplication.
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Multi-hyphenate Chella Man, a model/actor/activist, was recently profiled in “Vogue Magazine” for his ear jewelry collection, designed to “celebrate the deaf and hard-of-hearing communities.”
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A new study by Northwestern University researchers finds that although human and non-human primate vocalizations facilitate core cognitive processes in very young human infants, bird song does not.
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How do you turn “dumb” headphones into smart ones? Rutgers engineers have invented a cheap and easy way by transforming headphones into sensors that can be plugged into smartphones, identify their users, monitor their heart rates, and perform other services, according to an article published on the university’s website.
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