CSD Unites Community Foundation Launches
The Foundation is a grant provider and partner that works collaboratively with deaf-led organizations and communities to achieve long-term, widespread impact.
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Author: Stefani Kim
Beltone Launches Rely Hearing Aids
Beltone, a hearing care retailer with approximately 1,500 locations in North America, announced the launch of Beltone Rely, a full collection of hearing aids “offering proven technology and advanced features and services normally only available in premium-priced hearing devices.”
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COVID-19 Impact on Hearing Loss Study to Commence
A major UK study to investigate the possible long-term impact of COVID-19 on hearing, led by researchers at NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) and funded by RNID, The Dowager Countess Eleanor Peel Trust (DCEPT), and The University of Manchester has been announced on the university’s website.
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GN Hearing Launches ReSound Key
ReSound Key helps to further enhance the individualized hearing experience and can connect to a range of wireless accessories for additional help in challenging listening situations.
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Tinnibot: Your Tinnitus Companion
Hearing Power has developed Tinnibot as a way to help people suffering from tinnitus symptoms accept their condition; understand that no “quick-fix cure” currently exists, despite what some online sources may suggest; and work toward improving their quality of life through therapeutic methods.
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Starkey Livio AI Tested in New Study
In a recent study published by the “American Journal of Audiology,” Starkey’s Livio AI hearing aids recorded “the most accurate steps compared to actual physical steps taken, outperforming a Sportline pedometer and a Fitbit Charge 3,” the company announced.
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Brain Auditory Pathway Similar to Primates
Although speech and language are unique to humans, experts have found that the brain’s auditory pathway is similarly wired in monkeys which could signify an evolutionary process dating back at least 25 million years
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Widex Launches PureSound Technology for Moment
The company announced the launch of Widex PureSound technology, available in its new WIDEX MOMENT hearing aids, featuring two distinct signal processing pathways — a “classic” version and a new ZeroDelay Accelerator pathway that “dramatically changes how hearing aids sound,” according to the company.
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Survey Highlights Impact of COVID-19 on Hearing Loss
Ninety-five percent of people living with hearing loss in the United States say masks and facial coverings impact their ability to communicate during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has also heightened levels of anxiety, social isolation, and other mental health-related effects among nearly half of the nation’s hearing loss community.
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COVID-19 Survivor with Hearing Loss Receives Implant
The American Cochlear Implant Alliance (ACI Alliance) announced that it has published the account of Michael Goldsmith, a COVID-19 survivor who was implanted with a cochlear implant after experiencing sudden single-sided deafness, a form of hearing loss.
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Ida Institute Partners with NAL
This is the non-profit institute’s “first formal collaboration with an organization exclusively focused on research and represents a significant milestone for the entire Ida community.”
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A Field Clinic Improves Hearing Loss Among Amish
In 2019, researchers noticed that a large group of parents within an Amish community in Branch County started seeking treatment for their children’s hearing loss and ear infections.
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Ally Lending Partners with Eargo
Ally’s alignment with Eargo builds upon the company’s legacy and expanding footprint in business-to-business-to-consumer lending.
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Synchrony/CareCredit to Acquire Allegro Credit
Synchrony announced it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Allegro Credit, a provider of point-of-sale consumer financing for audiology products, dental services, and musical instruments.
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EUHA Plans Face-to-Face Convention in September
Companies will now be able to book their booth space for the Industry Exhibition, which is scheduled to take place from September 15-17, 2021 as a live event accompanying the 65th International Congress of Hearing Acousticians in Hanover.
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