EPFL is Developing Soft Hearing Implants
The highly elastic implant conforms neatly to the curved surface of the auditory brainstem and can therefore send highly targeted electrical signals.
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PCC 2.0: From Awareness to Action!
The transition from a traditional, paternalistic, and provider-focused system to a model that considers patients as active partners in their own care is the next big challenge. Ida Institute Managing Director Lise Lotte Bundesen explains how this might be set into action in hearing healthcare.
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Study Examines Hearing Loss Among Mining, Oil and Gas Extraction Workers
Researchers at NIOSH found that in many industries within these sectors, at least 25% of the workers had hearing loss.
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Hearing Aids May Lead to Lower Rates of Dementia, Depression, and Anxiety
The findings, made by a University of Michigan team using data from nearly 115,000 people over age 66 with hearing loss and insurance coverage through a Medicare HMO between 2008 and 2016, are published in the “Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.”
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Chronic Conductive Hearing Loss May Result in Speech Recognition Deficits
This study suggests that not properly treating infections or other conditions that chronically affect the middle ear may lead to neural deficits and increased difficulties hearing in noisy environments.
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Researchers Find Proteins Associated with Hair Cell Formation
The proteins, described in a report published June 12 in “eLife,” may hold a key to future therapies to restore hearing in people with irreversible deafness. An article summarizing the research was published on the Johns Hopkins Medicine website.
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Sensorion Appoints John Furey As Independent Board Member
Furey was most recently Chief Operating Officer (COO) for Spark Therapeutics, a global gene therapy developer. This appointment will be effective at the next meeting of the board of directors of the company, in September 2019.
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Parental Mental Illness May Be Associated with Suicide in Adults with Tinnitus
Results of the study reveal that among patients seeking help for their tinnitus and hyperacusis, poor parental mental health was associated with the risk of suicidal and self-harm ideations across the life span.
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The University of Miami Hosts 16th Symposium on Cochlear Implants in Children
The conference was organized by the American Cochlear Implant (ACI) Alliance and supported by the UHealth Ear Institute and other academic and private sector organizations.
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Purdue Researchers Find Noise-induced Trauma May Have Greater Impact on Hearing Loss
The researchers found that noise trauma causes substantially greater changes in neural processing of complex sounds compared with age-related metabolic loss, potentially explaining large differences in speech perception commonly seen between people with the same clinically defined degree of hearing loss based on an audiogram.
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Discovery in Mice Points to Potential Treatment for Vestibular Disorders
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found a way to regenerate hair cells in the inner ears of mice, allowing the animals to recover vestibular function.
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University of Arkansas Professor Studies Face Mask that Enables Lip Reading
Dr Samuel Atcherson, a faculty member at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology, is researching a prototype transparent surgical face mask that allows those who are deaf or hard of hearing and non-native English speakers to read lips.
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University of Arkansas Professor Studies Face Mask that Enables Lip Reading
Dr Samuel Atcherson, a faculty member at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology, is researching a prototype transparent surgical face mask that allows those who are deaf or hard of hearing and non-native English speakers to read lips.
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Researchers Develop Virtual Model of Cochlea
Improved modeling for speech and music transduction could boost the performance of cochlear implants.
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Researchers Develop Virtual Model of Cochlea
Improved modeling for speech and music transduction could boost the performance of cochlear implants.
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