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Genomic Testing May Help Guide Care of Childhood Hearing Loss
Advances in understanding the many different genetic causes of childhood-onset hearing loss indicate that genomic testing could assist in treatment planning, including optimal timing of treatment.
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MED-EL Showcases Audio Processor Cover Designs
Under the theme “What does sound mean to you?” four professional artists have created designs that will form limited-edition covers for the MED-EL hearing implant audio processors.
Tribute: Sigfrid (Sig) Soli, PhD, Auditory and CI Researcher and Scientist
Sig Soli, PhD, an early researcher in cochlear implants, gifted instructor, and co-author of the widely used Hearing in Noise Test (HINT) in hearing aid fitting, died on April 11, 2022.
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Cognivue Appoints Douglas Beck as VP, Clinical Sciences
Neuroscience company Cognivue, Inc announced that it has hired Dr Douglas Beck as Vice President of Clinical Sciences. Beck brings four decades of experience in audiology and communications disorders and sciences to Cognivue and consults, lectures, teaches, volunteers, and writes for multiple audiology, science, medical, and health-related professional organizations globally.
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Auditory Insight Identifies Cochlear Implant Barriers
Auditory Insight, a consultancy for the hearing healthcare industry, analyzes patients’ concerns with cochlear implants and identifies three causative barriers in its Q1 2022 Research Note.
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Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss (SSNHL): A Status Report 2022
SSNHL remains a difficult problem to diagnose, manage, and resolve, say authors Douglas Beck, AuD, and Jed Grisel, MD. Although treatments for SSNHL include corticosteroids and hyperbaric oxygen therapy (preferably early after onset), there are no interventions with highly predictable successful outcomes. However, a variety of new therapeutic strategies are under investigation.
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University Hospitals to Participate in Clinical Trial for Cochlear Implants
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and UH Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital are participating in a Cochlear Americas’-sponsored clinical trial for an implantable hearing device in children 5 to 11 years of age who have been born with hearing loss that may be caused by craniofacial abnormalities.
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ACI Alliance Announces Scholarship Recipients for CI2022
The American Cochlear Implant Alliance (ACI Alliance) announced the student scholarship award recipients for CI2022 DC: Emerging Issues in Cochlear Implantation (CI), to be held in Washington, DC, May 18-21, 2022.
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The LMH Pediatric Screener to Assure Appropriate Amplification: An Interview with Jane Madell, PhD
Pediatric audiologists Jane Madell, PhD, and Joan Hewitt, AuD, have recently modified the Ling Six Sound Test—which is widely used to ensure children hear all the sounds they need to with hearing aids and cochlear implants—so it now includes more information in the important speech mid-frequencies. Douglas Beck, AuD, interviews Dr Madell about this new test and its use.
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‘Cochlear Implant Basics’ Book Now Available in Print
Podcaster Richard Pocker announced the availability of a book of the transcripts of 25 interviews form his website, cochlearimplantbasics.com
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Study Indicates Positive Effects of Cochlear Implantation on Cognition, QOL
A recent study published in the “European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology” examined the effect of cochlear implantation on quality of life and cognitive decline on young (under 60) and older (over 60) participants with severe-to-profound hearing loss.
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AI To Help Doctors Treat Deaf Patients
Examinations of the labyrinthine structure of the inner ear are made by CT scan, although interpretation of the images is very difficult, and can delay or completely rule out the treatment. DTU PhD student Paula López Diez is studying how artificial intelligence (AI) can be used for image analysis.
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Cochlear Nucleus Receives FDA Approval for UHL/SSD
Cochlear implants are already FDA approved for those with moderate-to-profound bilateral sensorineural hearing loss. With this approval, Cochlear can expand implantable treatment options for those with UHL/SSD to include cochlear implants, for the first time, according to its announcement.
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University of Nottingham Launches Hearing Loss Study
Researchers at the NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) and the University of Nottingham are launching a new study, sponsored by the University of Nottingham, which will inform the most effective treatment for people with severe hearing loss globally.
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Perfecting Pitch Perception
In a study reported December 14 in the journal “Nature Communications,” researchers led by McGovern Institute for Brain Research associate investigator Josh McDermott used computational modeling to explore factors that influence how humans hear pitch.
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Cochlear Implants Linked to New Bone Formation
The majority of cochlear implant recipients develop new bone formation that adversely affects long-term hearing preservation, according to a study appearing in Radiology.
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3D Printing Improves Cochlear Implants for Users
A team of engineers and clinicians have used 3D printing to create intricate replicas of human cochleae and combined it with machine learning to advance clinical predictions of ‘current spread’ inside the ear for cochlear implant (CI) patients. ‘Current spread’ or electrical stimulus spread, as it is also known, affects CI performance and leads to ‘blurred’ hearing for users, but no adequate testing models have existed for replicating the problem in human cochleae – until now.
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