The report includes a 6% decrease in payment for audiology services due to changes to office-based outpatient evaluation and management (E/M) procedure codes that provide payment increases for primary care services.
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Unlike conventional hearing aids, Earlens “doesn’t amplify sound with a speaker but, instead, it directly stimulates the eardrum.”
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Under S-2441, the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Advisory Council’s membership will include new public members, including a parent of a child who is deaf or hard of hearing and has special needs, and a person who is deaf-blind.
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Researchers are investigating whether a device giving feedback on body position can improve balance and stability in older adults with hearing loss
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Are there specific frequency transpositions that would be acceptable? As it turns out, more may not necessarily be such a bad thing.
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Government personnel and their families at the US embassy in Havana, Cuba, in late 2016, and later at the US consulate in Guangzhou, China, began suffering from a range of unusual — and in some cases suddenly occurring — symptoms such as a perceived loud noise, ear pain, intense head pressure or vibration, dizziness, visual problems, and cognitive difficulties, and many still continue to experience these or other health problems.
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Hidden within massive neural networks, leaner subnetworks can complete the same task more efficiently. The trick is finding those “lucky” subnetworks, dubbed winning lottery tickets.
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Not only are hearing aids capable of connecting directly to smartphones, but now, through the use of embedded sensors, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, hearing aids are themselves getting smarter and adding value to patient-centered hearing healthcare that goes well beyond amplifying sound.
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The online survey of audiologists in the United States was conducted between November 20-30, 2020.
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For speech, frequency transposition works very well, but music is not speech. Music is made up exclusively of notes and their harmonics.
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The drug, called ISRIB, has already been shown in laboratory studies to restore memory function months after traumatic brain injury (TBI), reverse cognitive impairments in Down Syndrome, prevent noise-related hearing loss, fight certain types of prostate cancer, and even enhance cognition in healthy animals.
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At the US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, now known as DEVCOM, Army Research Laboratory, researchers collaborated with Uber and the University of Texas at Austin to investigate the acoustic properties of electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, which use distributed electric propulsion to power flight.
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The Musicians’ Clinics of Canada announced the latest update for its Temporary Hearing Loss Test app. Among its updates, the app is now free and is available for iOS and Android platforms.
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According to the company’s announcement, Harned has nearly 15 years of experience in the hearing healthcare industry and marketing technology.
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By integrating laser-based technology—which can deal with high frequencies—into headrests, they eliminate the need for users to wear head/earphones or earbuds.
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