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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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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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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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 MoreAudiology Systems Inc (ASI), the distribution company for Otometrics and other hearing products, has expanded into California and Nevada with two new acquisitions.
Read MoreMice 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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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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HR December 2012’s Staff Standpoint: Top Hearing Industry News Stories in 2012
Read MoreMore than 100 hearing care professionals from across the United States participated in Oticon’s 2012 Advanced Marketing Boot Camp, held June 22 to 24 in San Jose, Calif.
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A review of some of the inherent issues when listening to music via hearing aid processing, and how the processing affects sound quality.
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A thug named “John Smith” is looking for his lost C# and wants to find it—now. Just another night and case to solve—with some help from Hallowell Davis and the audiological literature.
Read MoreResearchers at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta have shown that introducing a gene called Atoh1 into the cochleae of young mice can induce the formation of extra sensory hair cells. Their results show the potential of a gene therapy approach to regenerating sensory hair cells to treat hearing loss, but the research also demonstrates its current limitations.
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Improved accuracy in reporting the hearing aid adoption rate, promoting hearing aid features using evidencebased data in language that the layman can understand, and unbundling prices are three things that our industry needs to improve upon.
Read MoreDeaf since a child, Keith Nolan was told that he couldn’t enlist in the United States armed forces because he was deaf, but Nolan didn’t take no for an answer.
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This weekend I watched Super 8, the J.J. Abrams a la Spielberg horror film that pits a group of teenagers against a spooky, massively powerful, unknown entity and the seemingly capricious rules of adults. Without spoiling it for you, the
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