Hearing Care Calendar of Events: 2020
Here is a list of the major national and international hearing healthcare events you should have on your radar for 2020.
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Author: Karl
Physician Reporting & Referrals in a Hearing Care Practice: An Interview with Sycle’s Ridge Sampson
Todays more competitive hearing care market makes it especially critical for practices to establish strong relationships with local physicians and heathcare providers.
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Sensorion Scuttles SENS-111 Vestibulopathy Drug to Focus on Sudden Hearing Loss
Sensorion reported disappointing results in a Phase 2 trial of SENS-111 for the treatment of acute unilateral vestibulopathy (AUV). It now plans to focus its efforts on its SENS-401 drug designed to treat sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL).
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Demant Launches High-end Audio Headset Company, EPOS
Demant—the Danish parent group of Oticon, Sonic, and several leading hearing healthcare brands—has launched EPOS, a new high-end audio solutions company that will develop and manufacture headsets used by businesses and gamers.
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ASHA 2019 Convention Kicks Off in Orlando on November 21
The latest research and clinical developments for diagnosing and treating communication disorders will be presented at the ASHA 2019 Convention held on November 21-23 in Orlando.
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AuDACITY 2019 Spotlights Hearing Loss in Older Adults
Starting Thursday in National Harbor, Md, this year’s ADA convention schedule is particularly packed with special sessions for audiologists who work with older adults, in addition to the usual wide variety of business-oriented sessions that help independent hearing care practice owners build their businesses.
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Blog: OTC Hearing Aid Proposed Regulations Likely Delayed Until at Least Q1 2020
The proposed regulations for a new class of over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids—which had previously been slated for release by the FDA this month—will now likely to be released sometime in the first quarter of 2020.
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Bose Receives FDA Class II Designation for Self-fitting Hearing Aid, Favorable ITC Ruling on Headphone Patent Infringement
The FDA published its final order on Bose’s De Novo application for a self-fitting hearing aid. The new hearing aid is a Class II device subject to controls similar to other wireless hearing aids, but with special safety and labeling requirements. This is not to be confused with an “OTC hearing device.” In unrelated news, the US ITC has ruled that several companies have infringed on Bose patents related to the company’s “StayHear” headphone tips.
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Does Tinnitus Get Worse as Hearing Loss Increases in Severity?
“Our results suggest that tinnitus will likely get louder, but not by very much,” write Hashir Aazh, PhD, and Richard Salvi, PhD, in their recent study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Audiology which shows only a weak association between tinnitus loudness and puretone average (PTA) thresholds.
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US Hearing Aid Sales Rise by 4.9% Through Q3 2019
According to statistics generated by the Hearing Industries Association (HIA), Washington, DC, overall hearing aid unit sales through the first three quarters of 2019 have increased by 4.9%, with a 4.2% increase in the commercial sector and a 7.9% increase in the VA.
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EUHA 2019 Congress Kicks Off in Nuremberg, Germany
The “world’s largest convention of hearing care professionals” opens its gates to approximately 8,000 attendees on Wednesday, October 16.
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Example of a Good Press Release for An Audiology Office Opening
Writing a good press release isn’t easy. Here is an example of an excellent press release promoting the grand opening of a new dispensing office.
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Inaugural AudBoss Summit Held in Naples, Fla
About 160 private practice professionals attended the 2019 AudBoss Summit, said to be one of the field’s largest learning events dedicated solely to private practice audiologist owners, on October 2-5 at the Hilton Naples in Naples, Fla.
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Unilateral Hearing Loss: Underappreciated, Undertreated
An introduction to the October 2019 special edition of The Hearing Review about unilateral hearing loss (UHL) in its many forms.
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Managing People with Sensorineural and Conductive Unilateral Hearing Loss and Single-Sided Deafness
CROS and BiCROS hearing aids are not the only treatment options for those with unilateral hearing loss. This article reviews other options and potential future avenues for unilateral sensorineural hearing loss and single-sided deafness, as well as for unilateral conductive hearing loss.
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