The Hear the World Foundation has released a newly completed 2016 calendar featuring star portraits, which will be available this holiday season as gifts for a good cause. The Hear the World 2016 Calendar is a powerful collection of shots photographed by Canadian singer Bryan Adams.
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At EUHA 2015, held October 14-16, 2015 in Nuremberg, Germany, Sivantos presented three new families of Siemens hearing aids in the Essential segment. The Intuis 2, Sirion 2, and Orion 2 product series are all equipped with a range of current technologies. They can be remotely controlled depending on the model–also via free apps for Apple and android smartphones–and can be connected to modern communication and consumer electronics.
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Sonic released its Cheer hearing aids in three technology levels plus new power instruments to accommodate a range of hearing loss needs and preferences. Cheer aids have features that improve sound performance built on Sonic’s Speech Variable Processing platform. Many Cheer models include wireless connectivity as a standard feature.
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The UNIQUE, a new hearing aid from Widex, is designed to provide effortless hearing by addressing the nuances hearing aids need to capture and process for patients’ unique, individualized listening needs.
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The authors take issue with recent reports about the performance of Musicians Earplugs, and show that the ways in which data were graphically displayed explain the differences in interpretation.
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In the last several years, technologies have become available that have shifted up the maximum input that can be digitized through an A/D converter to over 110 dB SPL. One element—the final element—remains when optimizing a hearing aid for music, and it is surprisingly very “low tech” — a single-channel hearing aid. Dr Chasin discusses its merits for music.
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The European Union of Hearing Aid Acousticians (EUHA) will host its 60th annual convention in Nuremberg, Germany, on October 14-16.
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GN ReSound headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark announced the global launch of ReSound Enya hearing aids with features and wireless technologies that were previously only available at higher price points, but are now available in lower-priced solutions. Users can stream sound from the TV, mobile phone or music player directly to ReSound Enya hearing aids with ReSound Unite wireless accessories, and use a smartphone to control the hearing aid volume and program settings.
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The HyperSound system is designed to reproduce sound in a confined, narrow beam to a targeted area for situations like listening to a teacher in a classroom or to the TV at home. This field study suggests that, by making a directed audio solution part of a broader portfolio of intervention options, hearing care practices have an opportunity to meet the needs of more patients with hearing loss.
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Starkey will pass out free earplugs to promote healthy hearing before all Vikings home games throughout the 2015 season, and Vikings players Kyle Rudolph and Adrian Peterson will each play prominent roles in supporting the partnership to promote healthy hearing.
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A 12-week nationwide “HEARoes Tour” that kicked off last weekend at the Chicago Air & Water Show encourages veterans and their families to test their hearing.
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Previous tinnitus studies have demonstrated the benefits of fractal tones and Widex Zen Therapy (WZT) when used in conjunction with amplification, but there have been no studies on the use of fractal tones alone for tinnitus sufferers who do not require or wish to consider amplification. Until now…
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Dr Chasin uses a cat analogy to explain why it is an error to assume that the in-ear monitor needs to be aimed at the eardrum.
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TruHearing announced that the organization, its customers, and the Olive Osmond Hearing Fund raised $12,000 to help children with hearing loss during the month of May, Better Hearing and Speech Month.
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The Starkey Hearing Foundation’s fundraising event brought together professional athletes, supporters, celebrities, two former presidents, and more than 1,600 guests at the Saint Paul RiverCentre on Sunday, July 26.
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