Members of the Deaf community who suffer from mental health problems need culturally sensitive treatment to avoid misdiagnosis and inappropriate treatment, according to a report in the March Journal of Psychiatric Practice.
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MedRx Inc has launched a completely redesigned AVANT Stealth Clinical Audiometer, part of its next generation of micro PC-based instrumentation.
Read MoreThe New Jersey Association of Hearing Health Professionals presents its 2013 Northeast Conference of Hearing Health Professions.
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A new Kickstarter project is raising funds for the EMBRACE+ smart bracelet, which allows users to receive mobile notifications via either a watch screen or a flashing bracelet when their phones are out of sight.
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The American Board of Audiology (ABA) has appointed a select group of audiologists to lead the development of a Practice Analysis in Audiology (PA-AuD).
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Lantos Technologies Inc announced that it has received clearance from the United States Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to market the Lantos 3D Ear Scanning System.
Read MoreSoundCure Inc is cosponsoring the first fundraiser for The Tinnitus Foundation, a nonprofit established in Phoenix, Ariz, to fund research for the debilitating condition of tinnitus, or ringing in the ears.
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The Oticon Hearing Foundation will again partner with the American Academy of Audiology Foundation (AAAF) for Project Amazon 2013, which underwrites the costs for two audiologists to join a humanitarian mission to remote Brazilian communities.
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Unitron has released Moxi™ Kiss. Based on its Era™ platform, Moxi Kiss is the company’s latest 312 RIC hearing instrument with a new design that is aimed at improving patient acceptance.
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Several camps are planned this summer at Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf, where deaf teenagers and teens with hearing loss will get hands-on experience building hi-tech devices—and have fun.
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Rapid hearing loss in both ears may be a symptom of the rare but always fatal Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and should be considered a reason for clinicians to test for the disorder.
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Audiology Systems Inc (ASI) has recently added three sales executives to its team in New York, California, Nevada, and the Carolinas.
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General Hearing Instruments (GHI) is launching a combination tinnitus relief device that also addresses hearing loss.
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Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have identified a group of progenitor cells in the inner ear that can become the sensory hair cells and adjacent supporting cells that enable hearing.
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The University of Miami’s Mustafa Tekin, MD, has been awarded a $3.1 million, 5-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to identify genes that cause deafness and are associated with ear anomalies.
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