To overcome the obstacles current CIs might cause during surgery, researchers at the Hamlyn Centre proposed a novel functional atraumatic self-shaping cochlear implant. It is a pre-curved CI that curls into the cochlea under the influence of body temperature.
Oticon Medical announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted premarket approval (PMA) to the company’s Neuro System to treat individuals 18 years or older, with bilateral severe-to-profound sensorineural hearing loss, who obtain limited benefit from appropriately fitted hearing aid(s).
Today’s latest upgrade is said to “improve the hearing experience offered by the Whisper earpieces so that users have a better experience if they don’t have the Whisper Brain with them.”
Cochlear Limited (ASX: COH) announced the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)'s clearance of the new Cochlea Baha 6 Max Sound Processor, designed to “improve hearing outcomes for people with SSD (single-sided deafness), conductive or mixed hearing loss.”
Cooling the sensitive tissues of the inner ear before and during a cochlear implant surgery may lead to better hearing outcomes, according to a University of Miami Health System and College of Engineering researcher who is leading a collaborative team developing this therapeutic approach.
The legislation is named after 10-year-old Colorado native, Ally Tumblin who was born without a right ear or hearing canal and, therefore, requires the use of a bone-anchored hearing aid.