Beltone, named America’s #1 Hearing Care Retailer & Best in Customer Service by Newsweek, announced that it is raising awareness around noise-induced hearing loss in observance of National Protect Your Hearing Month.
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This year, between October 6-8, MED-EL announced that it will bring music alive at the MED-EL Sound Sensation Festival. Singers and musicians from around the world who are deaf and hard of hearing and rely on MED-EL technology to hear will perform alongside artists that will include a Vienna Philharmonic ensemble, violinist Yury Revich, and Eurovision winner Conchita Wurst.
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Intricon Corporation (NASDAQ: IIN), a joint development manufacturer of micromedical technology for use in interventional, implantable, and body-worn medical devices, announced that it has achieved “a critical milestone in the clinical study of its proprietary software that will allow people to self-fit hearing aids that are sold over-the-counter at retail stores and online.”
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Signia announced it will join a Rally Days event with the Dallas Cowboys football team on October 22 to coincide with National Audiology Awareness Month.
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Mandatory mask wearing saw more than 90% of deaf people struggle with communication during the pandemic, University of Essex research has revealed.
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This October, during National Protect Your Hearing Month, the CDC announced that it is coming together to raise awareness about noise-induced hearing loss, and share easy steps that people can take to protect their hearing.
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The International Congress of Hearing Aid Acousticians (EUHA) announced that its EUHA app has been completely redesigned and now has more features.
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HearUSA, a business in the WS Audiology Group (WSA), announced a new HearUSA brand, “Sound of the New Age.” The new brand unites 1,000 team members, 360 hearing centers, and 28 brands to introduce hearing care professionals (HCPs) and the 48-million people living with hearing loss to the “Sound of the New Age” of hearing possibilities, according to the company’s announcement.
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Signia announced it has been honored with a Platinum Award in the 2022 Loyalty360 Awards for its Signia Aspire customer loyalty program, underscoring the company’s commitment to “delivering innovative solutions, unparalleled support, and service excellence to hearing care professionals (HCPs).”
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Extending the Blu line of hearing aids, Unitron announced the official launch of its Insera ITE (In-the-ear) hearing aids, powered by Blu. The Insera family offers “flexibility and personalization through a range of choices in size, functionality, and features based on individual needs and preferences,” according to the company’s announcement.
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Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine are developing new ways to study why an antibiotic causes hair cell death and permanent hearing loss in people.
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The way in which we experience music and speech differs from what has until now been believed. This research has been published in Science Advances, and may make it possible to design better cochlear implants.
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According to the World Health Organization, 1.6 billion people across the globe are living with hearing loss. Much of that is preventable, stemming from excessive noise, untreated ear infections, and exposure to ototoxic chemicals. About half of youth and young adults are at risk for hearing loss due to recreational noise exposure.
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The NIH grant will fund Miller School research aimed at developing and testing novel therapy approaches with gene editing. Gene editing is a group of technologies that allow scientists to change an organism’s DNA. CRISPR-Cas9 is a popular gene editing technology developed to treat genetic disorders.
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Website visitors are invited to cast their votes for the 12 finalists who represent the “best of the best” from this year’s nominations in each of four categories – Student, Adult, Advocacy, and Practitioner. The total number of votes received by each finalist will help to determine who will be the first, second, and third place winners in each category.
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