William Demant Holding has promoted Søren Nielsen to COO and hired René Schneider to fill a newly created position as CFO. Both Nielsen and Schneider will become members of the group’s Executive Board headed by President & CEO Niels Jacobsen.
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With the addition of the Interacoustics TBS10 test box, Callisto users can now customize their system through dedicated software modules to create their personal combination for audiometry, REM, visible speech mapping, and HIT.
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Maybe it’s time to move on and address stigma only when it’s apparent a prospective client is looking at the hearing aid as if it’s a giant shrimp.
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Adding complexity counter-intuitively makes it easier to recognize two sounds and identify those two sounds, says new research from the University of Buffalo.
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David Kirkwood, who has served as an editor in hearing healthcare for over 25 years, has announced his retirement.
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Dr Maurice Miller reminds us that tinnitus can be a sign of an “ear in distress” and that hearing care professionals have an obligation to keep this in mind, while offering a continuum of tinnitus solutions—not just hearing aids.
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Anna Karczewska-Nabelek, PhD, a professor at the University of Tennessee who helped develop the acceptable noise level (ANL) test and was widely recognized for her brilliant research and mentoring of students, died on May 2 at age 81.
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Composer Richard Einhorn adds his perspective on Marshall Chasin’s May 2015 Back to Basics article, “Less May Be More for Music.”
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BusinessKorea reports that Samsung will be entering the hearing healthcare market, which jibes with several reports from reliable sources in the hearing industry.
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This third CHSCOM conference will focus on two main themes: “Cognitive hearing in adverse...
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The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (HR 2) was overwhelmingly approved on a 92-8 vote in the US Senate on April 14, repealing the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula and paving the way for ICD-10 code set implementation. However, an amendment to HR 2 that would have repealed Medicare’s Part B outpatient therapy caps was defeated.
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Representatives Devin Nunes (R-CA) and Mike Thompson (D-CA) reintroduced the bipartisan Hearing Aid Tax Credit (HR1882 or HATC) which would provide a $500 credit to people who need a hearing aid (or $1000 for a binaural fitting).
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A review of the American Academy of Audiology’s AudiologyNOW! 2015 convention and a report on the Academy’s General Assembly.
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Hearing aid sales in the United States during the first quarter of 2015 increased by 11.32% compared to the same period last year, with nearly identical strong sales for both the private sector and the VA.
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MAICO Diagnostics and Interacoustics have announced an agreement to offer a full line of hearing testing medical devices to Novation, which represents a large number of hospitals and health care providers.
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