A Fly’s Super-Hearing Power Could Aid Humans
A team of researchers at The University of Texas at Austin has developed a tiny low-power device that mimics a fly’s sensitive hearing mechanism.
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The High Notes of Musicians Earplugs
High-fidelity hearing protectors preserve the sound quality of music and voices, and are the best choice for most musicians’ hearing protection needs.
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Music Benefits Across Lifespan: Enhanced Processing of Speech in Noise
Intriguing research continues to focus on music, the brain, and music’s potential in honing auditory acuity, including speech-in-noise performance and the enhancement of listening abilities. Drs Nina Kraus and Samira Anderson explain why these exciting findings may have big implications for auditory training and aural rehabilitation.
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Issues and Considerations Regarding Musicians, Music, Hearing, and Listening
Musicians can be a hearing care professional’s worst nightmare and, on occasion, their greatest teacher. The Hearing Review’s August edition guest editors Douglas Beck, AuD, & Marshall Chasin, AuD, provide an overview of this fascinating and challenging area of hearing healthcare.
Read MoreAudigy Group Launches Successful In-House Internet Paid Marketing Search Program
Audigy has achieved a partner status with its online publisher. The online publisher’s partnership program is available to a select group of companies, which have hit certain thresholds in their advertising platforms, in addition to superior campaign management.
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New Book: Statistical Methods and Reasoning for the Clinical Sciences: Evidence-Based Practice
The new publication was written to give practitioners the scientific literacy needed to understand statistical methods in order to increase the accuracy of their diagnoses.
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Blog Page: Soundhawk Unveils Its “Smart Listening System”
David Kirkwood takes a look at new listening devices from a California high-tech start-up.
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Staff Standpoint: Hearing Aid Sales and Music
Hearing Review Editor-in-Chief Karl Strom takes a look at second quarter hearing aid sales in this month’s Staff Standpoint.
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Oticon Celebrates Anniversary with 110 Days of Giving
Oticon has planned a series of events and humanitarian activities to celebrate its 110th anniversary.
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Young Baby Brains Rehearse Sounds
Infants can tell the difference between sounds of all languages until about 8 months of age when their brains start to focus only on the sounds they hear around them.
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Salus University’s Martin Pienkowski Receives Grant from Pennsylvania Lions Hearing Research Foundation
Martin Pienkowski, PhD, has received a $20,000 grant from the Pennsylvania Lions Hearing Research Foundation to research potential risks to the hearing of people working or living in moderately noisy environments that are presently considered safe by occupational noise exposure standards.
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The Importance of 1.059 in Music (and Audiology)
Why is the number 1.059 important in audiology and music? Besides being the twelfth root of 2, it is also the number you multiply by in order to find the next key on a piano keyboard (in Hertz). Marshall Chasin, AuD, explains why this knowledge might come in handy.
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Fit for the Front? British Study Identifies Hearing Requirements of Soldiers
University of Southampton researchers, with assistance from the UK’s Ministry of Defence, have conducted the first study to identify the hearing requirements of British soldiers fighting on the frontline.
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Neural Stem Cell Discovery May Aid in Treatment Research for Deafness
Finding polySia-NCAM— a functional biomarker that modulates neuronal differentiation— on adult inner ear neural stem cells after differentiation gives researchers a “handle” to identify and isolate these cells from among the many cells taken from a patient. The discovery will enhance research into spiral ganglion neurons and may bring treatments closer to patients with hearing deficits.
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Auris Medical Announces Proposed IPO on Nasdaq
Auris Medical, the developer of post-trauma treatments for acute inner ear tinnitus and acute inner ear hearing loss via intratympanic injection, has announced a proposed IPO.
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