According to a research review published in Pediatrics, it’s just as important to identify and treat newborns and young children with deafness in only one ear, or else long term prospects for hearing recovery may be diminished.
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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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Medical device giant Medtronic has purchased bone-anchored hearing implant manufacturer Sophono. Medtronic is the world’s third largest medical device manufacturer with a market capitalization of over $100 billion and the company employs 85,000 people, including 5,800 scientists and engineers, in 160 countries.
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The HIA announced that hearing health advocates will thank Senator Dean Heller (R-NV) at the HIA Annual Meeting on March 6, 2015 for introducing the Hearing Aid Tax Credit (S.315) in conjunction with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN).
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Sonitus Medical, San Mateo, Calif, announced on February 9, 2015 that it has closed its doors, and the company facility and its equipment will be up for auction in the next 2 weeks.
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A discussion of recent findings regarding the value of CROS/BiCROS systems and wireless accessories, and how a Mini Microphone to stream sound from the poorer to the better ear may provide benefit.
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Hearing Review Editor Karl Strom reviews the top news articles, columns, and commentary during the past year.
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Rep David B. McKinley, P.E. (R-WVa) applauded a decision made by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to drop a proposed rule that would have eliminated Medicare coverage for several types of hearing devices.
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Bone-anchored device manufacturer Sophono Inc has entered into a global partnership with China-based Hangzhou Nurotron Biotechnology Co Ltd, a manufacturer of the cochlear implant systems and BTE cochlear speech processors. A jointly-owned company, SophonoTron™, has been created to manage several of the commercial activities for the two partners.
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William Demant Holding and GN Store Nord increased their market share, posted what might be viewed within the industry as impressive gains, and confirmed their financial guidance; however, the financial community had expected more and gave the results a cool reception.
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Unilateral hearing loss is common, and without intervention it can lead to academic, speech-language, and social-emotional difficulties. But there is only limited literature about hearing aid fitting for these patients. Here is a brief review and some considerations when fitting patients with UHL.
Read MoreThe upcoming MFi solution will be available to all existing and future users of Oticon’s ConnectLine instruments across the price spectrum—including an installed base of around 2 million current users of wireless Oticon hearing instruments.
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Oticon Medical recently held the company’s largest scientific conference to date, the third in a series of annual professional gatherings to explore advances, research, and future direction in hearing implant systems.
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Sophono Inc, manufacturer of abutment-free, implantable, bone conduction hearing devices, has received clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
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The article, published in the February 2013 issue of Otology and Neurology, provides preliminary results on how Sophono’s closed-skin bone-anchored implant worked in children with ear atresia.
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