Starkey Promotes Hearing Health at Minnesota Lynx Changemakers Event
As part of its partnership with the team’s Changemakers platform, the company supported a local youth organization and provided hearing protection to fans.
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TLS Sound Labs Acquires Westone Laboratories
Westone Laboratories has returned to family ownership through its acquisition by TLS Sound Labs.
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Nutrition and Hearing: 7 Essential Tips for Seniors
As we age it's important to take care of our hearing. Here are 7 essential health and nutrition tips to promote and maintain proper hearing.
Recreational Audiology: Preventing Hearing Loss While Growing Your Practice
Hearing care professionals need to embrace the notion that they’re not just there to “fix” hearing loss, but also to prevent it in the first place. Here’s how serving the recreational market can jump-start 2021 and lead people to better hearing and the purchase of hearing aids.
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ASI Audio Partners with Triple G Ventures
As part of its growth strategy for the new in-ear monitor solution-the 3DME—ASI Audio announced it has formed a partnership with Pro Audio/MI/Consumer Technology industry veteran Gregg Stein and his new company, Triple G Ventures.
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E.A.R. Inc and Robert Traynor Audiology to Offer Training Seminar for Industrial and Recreational Hearing Market
The seminar presents how to corner the market on a new group of patients including hunters, shooters, musicians, law enforcement, motorcyclists, farmers, ranchers, dental, construction workers, pilots, and industrial workers.
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BBC Looks at How Loud Music Can Lead to Early Signs of Hearing Damage
The article examined a study from researchers at the University of Manchester, which suggests that although the damage observed is not enough to be diagnosed as a full-blown hearing loss, it could potentially have a cumulative effect on hearing later in life.
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AAA Article Discusses Considerations for Treatment of COVID-19 with Quinine Derivatives
AAA recommends that patients treated with these drugs limit their exposure to loud noise and/or use hearing protection to guard against further hearing damage.
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NIOSH and Partners Announce 2020 Safe-in-Sound Excellence in Hearing Loss Prevention Award
The Acoustics Sub-Working Group for the International Space Station, led by co-chairs Dick Danielson and Chris Allen, wins the innovation award for identifying the unique risk facing crew-members and developing solutions for reducing noise exposure.
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Competing in the New Era of Hearing Healthcare, Part 3: Differentiating the Practice with Product and Technology
Adding value to the patient experience requires change. The use of innovative products and technologies in a hearing healthcare practice is essential for survival—and it is expected by patients. Why send patients to the internet or electronic stores for products that can be offered in the practice and increase the patient experience? Why not use technology to improve practice procedures and efficiency?
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Zeteo Tech Develops Hearing Protection for Military Dogs
The Canine Auditory Protection System, known as CAPS, is designed to prevent short-term hearing loss in military working dogs, which can result from high-decibel noise in training, transport, and operations.
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SPECIAL REPORT: Veterans with Hearing Loss: Unique Needs and Audiological Considerations
This special report reviews the demographics and special considerations that hearing care professionals should keep in mind when treating hearing loss and tinnitus in this patient population. Featuring comments and research from leading experts like James Jerger, PhD, Richard Danielson, PhD, Colonel LaKeisha Henry,
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Study Examines Hearing Loss Among Mining, Oil and Gas Extraction Workers
Researchers at NIOSH found that in many industries within these sectors, at least 25% of the workers had hearing loss.
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Lantos Technologies Launches LantosView 5.0 Software Update
This software update is said to enhances the Lantos 3D Scanning System, making it “faster and easier” to use to map the anatomy of the ear for the production of personalized hearing enhancement and protection solutions.
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Oticon Hearing Health Poll Shows Hearing Loss Among Woodstock Generation
According to the online survey of more than 1,000 US adults ages 65-80 conducted in June, the prevalence of hearing loss among those who listened to loud music when they were young (ie, in their teens and 20s) is 40% greater than the percentage of hearing loss indicated in studies of older Americans that don’t include questions about music listening habits.
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Oticon Participates in ‘Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day’
A tour of Oticon’s production facilities featured a hearing-themed scavenger hunt. Hands-on activities combined lessons on the science of sound with cupcake decorating and science experiments led by the educational group, Mad Science.
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Westone Acquires Custom Protect Ear
Custom Protect Ear’s management team and operations will remain headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with an operating subsidiary, ProtectEar USA, based in the United States.
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Outcome Measures, Wireless Technologies, and More: An Interview with Jason Galster, PhD
Dr Galster became the director of clinical research at Advanced Bionics, headquartered in Valencia, Calif, and has authored the book, “Audiology Treatment” (Thieme Medical Publishers, 2018), which belongs to a three-part book series that focuses on audiology treatment, diagnosis, and practice management, respectively.
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