News tagged with cochlear
Scientists set their sights on hearing breakthrough for babies
Dec 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The first year to two years of life is a critical time for hearing impaired children and their language development. Whilst young babies with hearing difficulties can now be fitted with cochlear ...
A sound practice: Cochlear implants restore children's hearing
Nov 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Ava Martin seems less nervous than her parents as the three sit in an audiologist’s office at UC Irvine Medical Center a few days after Labor Day. In August, the 6-year-old had surgery to place a cochlear ...
Stimulating sight: New retinal implant developed
Sep 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Inspired by the success of cochlear implants that can restore hearing to some deaf people, researchers at MIT are working on a retinal implant that could one day help blind people regain a ...
Nanoelectronic transistor combined with biological machine could lead to better electronics
Aug 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If manmade devices could be combined with biological machines, laptops and other electronic devices could get a boost in operating efficiency.
Hearing the words beneath the noise
Aug 05, 2009 |
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Hearing aids and cochlear implants act as tiny amplifiers so the deaf and hard-of-hearing can make sense of voices and music. Unfortunately, these devices also amplify background sound, so they're less effective in a noisy ...
Pair of Bionic Ears Helps to Distinguish Left from Right
May 15, 2009 |
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Can a pair of bionic ears benefit a hearing-impaired child? Cynthia Zettler, a postdoctoral fellow in Ruth Litovsky's laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison thinks so.
Wis. could be first to require cochlear implants
Apr 23, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Wisconsin could become the first state requiring private insurance companies to cover cochlear implants for children with severe hearing problems. The state Legislature passed a bill Thursday requiring private health ...
Study shows that cochlear implant surgery is safe for the elderly
Feb 27, 2009 |
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Contrary to conventional medical wisdom, a new study by NYU Langone Medical Center researchers shows that healthy elderly patients with severe to profound hearing loss can undergo a surgical procedure to receive cochlear ...
Good vibrations: Devices aid the deaf by translating sound waves to vibrations
Feb 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Lip reading is a critical means of communication for many deaf people, but it has a drawback: Certain consonants (for example, p and b) can be nearly impossible to distinguish by sight alone.
Cochlear Implants Offer Kids A Gift Beyond Hearing
Feb 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For years, hearing scientists have known that cochlear implants improve the communication of children who receive them. What they didn’t know was whether the children and their parents perceived ...
MRI machines may damage cochlear implants
Dec 01, 2008 |
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Patients with cochlear implants may want to steer clear of certain magnetic imaging devices, such as 3T MRI machines, because the machines can demagnetize the patient's implant, according to new research published in the ...
New tool to assess speech development in infants, toddlers with hearing impairments
Sep 23, 2008 |
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The number of hearing impaired infants and toddlers who are successfully aided by technological devices, such as hearing aids and cochlear implants, continues to grow, but there are still unknowns about these children's speaking ...
Hearing restoration may be possible with cochlear repair after transplant of human cord blood cells
Sep 03, 2008 |
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According to an Italian research team publishing their findings in the current issue of Cell Transplantation (17:6), hearing loss due to cochlear damage may be repaired by transplantation of human umbilical cord hematopoietic stem c ...
