'The Cut' Profiles Bradley Cooper's Ear Doctor from 'A Star is Born'
In an article published in “The Cut,” Dr William Slatterly III of House Ear Clinic in Los Angeles, discusses how his first role in a major movie came to be.
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Custom Earmolds and Plugs: A Formula of Area Over Love
This may sound like a cheap romantic novel or a new soap opera but “area over love” is an important acoustic principle that rears its romantic head in a number of clinical scenarios that are encountered, almost every day.
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Telecoils and Hearing Loops: An Interview with Juliëtte Sterkens, AuD
It’s probably safe to say that there is no greater and more effective professional advocate for the use of telecoils and loop systems than Juliëtte Sterkens, AuD.
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Real-life Hearing Aid Benefit with Widex EVOKE
A multinational survey of hearing aid users shows substantial advantages and high satisfaction rates for the new Widex EVOKE hearing aid. Additionally, the device’s SoundSense Learn feature was shown to provide real-time personal sound customization that would not have been achievable via a conventional fitting rationale.
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WHO and ITU Issue New Standard for Personal Audio Devices
Nearly 50% of people aged 12-35 years—or 1.1 billion young people—are at risk of hearing loss due to prolonged and excessive exposure to loud sounds, including music they listen to through personal audio devices.
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Hearing Loss as a Social Problem: A Study of Hearing-impaired Spouses and Their Hearing Partners
This article describes how hearing-impaired persons and their partners experience and manage hearing loss in the context of their conjugal relationships. Based on in-depth interviews and being together with hearing-impaired persons and their partners, it argues that the social implications of hearing loss are associated with the temporal aspects of conversational exchange. A more nuanced understanding of the strategies hearing-impaired people and their partners employ to manage interactional complications can help to improve care and support for people affected by hearing loss.
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New Technology Could Transmit Audible Message without Receiver
The ability to send highly targeted audio signals over the air could be used to communicate across noisy rooms or warn individuals of a dangerous situation such as an active shooter.
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Cochlear Celebration to Take Place February 14-17 in Nashville
More than 1,000 Cochlear™ Nucleus® Implant and Baha® System recipients and their families from the United States and Canada will come together at the four-day convention to celebrate the joys, challenges, and personal triumphs of overcoming hearing loss, while improving their hearing performance.
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AtlasIED to Debut New Product Lines at ISE 2019
Building upon 80 years of experience in audio technology, AtlasIED’s latest offerings are said to be engineered to meet the most common challenges in today’s commercial installations.
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Real-life Hearing Aid Benefit with Widex EVOKE
A multinational survey of hearing aid users shows substantial advantages and high satisfaction rates for the new Widex EVOKE hearing aid. Additionally, the device’s SoundSense Learn feature was shown to provide real-time personal sound customization that would not have been achievable via a conventional fitting rationale.
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10 Social Media Content Ideas for Your Hearing Care Practice
Do you have trouble coming up with ideas for original social media posts? When you have a lot of things on your plate, it’s easy to feel uninspired or struggle to come up with fresh content ideas. In this blog, Michele Ahlman provides 10 ideas to help inspire your social media posts.
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Huey Lewis and the News Sign Deal for New Album
Lead singer Huey Lewis was diagnosed with Ménière’s disease in early 2018, and announced that he lost “most of his hearing,” forcing the cancellation of the group’s 40-date tour, according to “Rolling Stone.”
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A Scoping Review 2019: OpenSound Navigator
A review of foundational publications, as well as the outcomes-oriented benefits, related to the first generation of Oticon OpenSound Navigator (OSN) and Multi-Speaker Access Technology (MSAT).
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A New Enhanced Operating System in Phonak Hearing Aids: AutoSense OS 3.0
A review of the rationale for and enhanced features in AutoSense OS 3.0 with binaural signal processing, and how the new system is designed to achieve the most appropriate settings for the wearer, optimizing hearing performance in all listening environments, including media streaming.
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Passings: Robert Schulein, Audio Engineer, Inventor
Audio engineer Robert Schulein, known for his work at Shure, Etymotic Research, and RBS Consultants, died peacefully in his home on New Years’ Day 2019 after a valiant, seven-year battle with cancer.
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