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A 10-Year Review of the Earlens System, Part 3: What’s the Big Deal about Audibility and Broader Audible Bandwidth?

This 3-part series is a high-level review of the data that has accumulated across more than 10 years of clinical research with the technology at the heart of the Earlens system. In Part 1, we dove into the speech understanding data to demonstrate how increasing the audible bandwidth of processed sound results in improved speech understanding performance from several perspectives. In Part 2, we discussed the perceptual benefits to naturalness and overall sound quality. Finally, in Part 3, we’ll deep dive into the restoration of audibility and how the Earlens approach to overall audibility improvement is reliably achieved in fittings via direct drive—as well as who may benefit from this. 

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Hearing Aid Sales Increase by 37% in 2021

The US hearing aid market rebounded from a net unit loss of -18% in 2020, which was induced by the pandemic, to a unit increase of 37% in 2021—essentially making what would appear to be a full recovery. In fact, hearing aid sales in 2021 ended up an impressive 12% above pre-pandemic 2019 levels. Pent-up demand is likely to keep fueling hearing aid growth numbers in 2022 for both the private/commercial market and especially the VA.

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Douglas Beck, AuD, Announces Retirement from Oticon

Douglas L. Beck, AuD, Vice President of Academic Sciences for Oticon, Inc, has announced he will retire in March 2022. Beck is a global presence in the world of hearing care. In more than 17 years of contributions to Oticon’s academic, clinical, and education efforts in the US and around the world, he developed into one of the hearing industry’s most in-demand speakers. 

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The ACHIEVE Study, Cognition, Amplification, and Audition: An Interview with Jennifer Deal, PhD

Does untreated hearing loss exacerbate cognitive decline? Dr Jennifer Deal and her colleagues
at Johns Hopkins have been researching aspects of hearing loss and cognition, and are currently
engaged in the Aging and Cognitive Health Evaluation in Elders (ACHIEVE) study, a randomized
trial to determine efficacy of hearing intervention on reducing cognitive decline in older adults.

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Senate Mulls “Build Back Better Act” and Coverage of Hearing Aids by Medicare

The $1.9 trillion Build Back Better Act was passed by the US House of Representatives on Friday, November 19, and is now with the Senate for what is sure to be a bumpy ride. The bill includes coverage of hearing aids once every 5 years for people with severe to profound hearing loss, as well as funding for universal preschool, expanded Child Tax Credits, several health and pandemic-related initiatives, renewable energy credits, and more.

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Intricon Reports Third Quarter 2021 Results

Intricon, an international joint development manufacturer engaged in designing, developing, engineering, manufacturing, and packaging miniature interventional, implantable, and body-worn medical devices, announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2021.

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