Over 400 hearing care professionals converged on the Chicago Hyatt Regency on September 8-10 for the 65th Annual International Hearing Society (IHS) convention—featuring 3 days of educational sessions, events, issues, and new products and services.
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Gruv Buttons™ are small, soft silicon caps designed to fit over the top of any RIC receiver and wire, allowing the hearing aid user to guide the RIC into the ear canal for easier and deeper hearing aid insertion.
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Although HR 3471—the centerpiece of the International Hearing Society’s ‘Fit to Serve’ campaign—has passed in the US House of Representatives, revisions have been made to limit the role of hearing aid dispensers in the VA to that of the fitting and dispensing of hearing aids only, according to the major audiology professional organizations.
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What would your ideal private practice look like? What’s the best way for achieving it? Gyl Kasewurm, AuD—an accomplished industry veteran and owner of a very successful private practice—provides her inside tips about how to build the practice of your dreams.
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More than 30 AuD students converged in Scottsdale, Ariz, for Audigy Group’s Audigy University Student Summit, a program dedicated to helping highly accomplished AuD students learn about the industry, explore personal growth, and discover opportunities in private practice.
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GN Hearing reported 12% revenue growth in Q2 2016, despite the loss of its supply agreement with Costco to produce the Kirkland Signature brand. Organic growth was 9%, driven by 10% organic growth in hearing instruments.
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PC Werth of London announced that it is moving its headquarters to a newly refurbished facility in South London, and has made a number of important additions and changes to its management team, including the addition of Delain Wright as managing director.
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New research shows that reduced audibility significantly reduces scores on the MMSE—the most popular tool for physicians and psychiatrists for assessing cognitive status—resulting in greater apparent cognitive deficits and possible misdiagnosis of dementia.
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According to statistics from the Hearing Industries Association (HIA), hearing aid net unit sales in the second quarter of 2016 grew by 10.1% compared to the same period last year. However, how much can be attributed to Big Box retail and the addition of two new HIA reporting members is uncertain.
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The NAS recommendations for a new OTC class of hearing devices and the removal of the hearing aid “waiver system” may dominate the headlines, but Hearing Review Editor Karl Strom hopes they don’t overshadow the 10 other important recommendations in the report.
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Among a dozen recommendations, the Committee on Accessible and Affordable Hearing Health Care for Adults would like to see the FDA establish an over-the-counter class of hearing devices, an end to the “waiver system,” hearing aids that have open programming, and portability of consumers’ audiograms and hearing aid programming information.
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The European Hearing Instrument Manufacturers Association (EHIMA) has elected Lukas Braunschweiler, CEO of Sonova, as president, and Anders Hedegaard, CEO of GN ReSound, as vice-president of the organization.
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GN ReSound announced that it has signed a long-term supply agreement with Audigy Group and also entered into a contingent agreement to acquire the company for up to $151 million.
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Sonova Holding AG—the world’s largest hearing aid manufacturer and parent company of Phonak, Unitron, and Advanced Bionics—has announced its intention to purchase AudioNova, Europe’s second-largest hearing aid retailer for US$952 million.
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US hearing aid net unit sales grew by as much as 9.7% in the first 3 months of 2016 compared to the same period last year, with the private/commercial sector leading the way with a 10.8% increase.
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