HearingFUSION Office Management System Offered in Siemens Reward Program
Siemens’ Aspire Rewards Program now offers HearingFUSION Cloud-Based Office Management System as a membership benefit.
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Oticon Marketing Boot Camp Trains Hearing Care Professionals for a Competitive Marketplace
More than 100 hearing care professionals from across the country learned innovative, actionable marketing strategies at the 2014 Oticon Advanced Marketing Boot Camp.
Read MoreRight Product; Wrong Message
How might we break the self-perpetuating negative perception associated with hearing healthcare and amplification? It’s time we all become committed to establishing a new social norm in hearing care—one that focuses on “maximal hearing and listening.”
Read MoreResearchers Regenerate Hair Cells in Mice with Hearing Damage
Research in the February 20 in the journal Stem Cell Reports reveals that supporting cells in the ear can turn into hair cells in newborn mice.
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A Comparison of Consumer Satisfaction, Subjective Benefit, and Quality of Life Changes Associated with Traditional and Direct-mail Hearing Aid Use
A survey involving customers of one of the largest and longest-established US direct-mail hearing aid companies reveals surprising data on benefit, satisfaction, and value.
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Staff Standpoint: Total Communication Devices
As wireless communication technology and the Information Age merge, hearing care professionals are in a unique position to witness and be part of this important technology shift—and 2.4 GHz wireless may have a large impact on our future.
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President Reagan’s Hearing Aids: Dr Tom Powers on His Oval Office Fitting
President Ronald Reagan was fit with hearing aids in the early 1980s and again by Dr Thomas Powers in February 1988. Here is a first-hand account of fitting the President.
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Staff Standpoint: Has Costco Become King of US Hearing Aid Retailing?
“We’re now one of the largest—if not the largest—hearing aid distributors in the market, but I really don’t want anyone to know that,” said Costco VP Richard Chavez in a recent article in Bloomberg Businessweek.
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New Technology May Enable Those with Severe Hearing Loss to Hear Higher Frequency Sounds
An innovation developed by a Purdue researcher in the College of Health and Human Sciences may make it possible for people with severe hearing loss to hear high-frequency sounds like "s," "sh," "f," and "th."
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US Regional Private-Sector Hearing Aid Sales, 2012
The following article presents a 10-year (2002-2012) snapshot of regional private-sector hearing aid sales using statistics compiled by the Hearing Industries Association (HIA), Washington, DC.
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Paternity Suit: Who Is the Real Father of Audiology?
Our quest in this blog post is to review the beginnings of Audiology to find the person who began the profession—and became the true “Father of Audiology.”
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Designing Hearing Aid Technology to Support Benefits in Demanding Situations, Part 1
The A/D converter has been an Achilles’ heel in hearing aid design. Here’s why, as well as details about a new hearing aid that has tackled this problem.
Read MoreASI Enters California and Nevada Markets
Audiology Systems Inc (ASI), the distribution company for Otometrics and other hearing products, has expanded into California and Nevada with two new acquisitions.
Read MoreDrug Found to Help Restore Hearing in Mice with NIHL
Mice with noise induced hearing loss had about 20% of their hearing restored by a drug that uses a gamma secretese inhibitor originally developed to combat the effects of Alzheimer’s disease.
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A Community College Puts Hearing Instrument Science on Wheels in Missouri
Lawrence Brethower, ScD, BC-HIS, director of Ozarks Technical Community College’s Hearing Instrument Science program, is putting his classroom on wheels.
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