News tagged with hearing aid


Wis. could be first to require cochlear implants

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(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 ...





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Our Health: Louder and louder world harms our hearing

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

So much noise. Rock concerts. Traffic. IPods. Always something in your ear. Until nature demands silence.


Reduced noise allows clearer mobile phone conversations

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 19, 2008 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Dutch researcher Richard Hendriks investigated how background noises can be suppressed in order to provide better sound quality in applications such as mobile phones and hearing aids.


Researchers studying hearing loss find auditory regions of the brain convert to the sense of touch

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine researchers have discovered that adult animals with hearing loss actually re-route the sense of touch into the hearing parts of the brain.


Cochlear implant recipients experience improvement in quality of life

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 04, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Cochlear implant recipients experience a significant improvement in their quality of life, and have improved speech recognition, according to new research published in the March 2008 issue of Otolaryngology – Head and Ne ...


Varibel, the glasses that hear

Electronics /

created Apr 07, 2006 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (33) | comments 1

Today a new hearing aid in the form of a pair of glasses was unveiled. These hearing-glasses are called 'Varibel' and offer older people the chance to stay active longer - free from the aesthetically unpleasing and technologically ...


Hearing the words beneath the noise

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...


Biophysical method may help to recover hearing

Biology /

created Aug 29, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (16) | comments 3

Scientists based in Switzerland and South Africa have created a biophysical methodology that may help to overcome hearing deficits, and potentially remedy even substantial hearing loss. The authors propose a method of retuning ...


A sound practice: Cochlear implants restore children's hearing

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(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 ...


Can you hear me now? Stem cells enhance hearing recovery

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created Jun 25, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Tokyo, Japan -- Researchers have shown that bone marrow stem cells injected into a damaged inner ear can speed hearing recovery after partial hearing loss. The related report by Kamiya et al, “Mesenchymal stem cell transplantation ...


MRI machines may damage cochlear implants

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created Dec 01, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...



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