For the hearing-impaired, cochlear implants can be absolutely life-changing. But few of us actually know what it sounds like to slip on one of those tiny wearable devices and hear words, voices and ...
Medical technology company MED-EL announced Thursday that the US Food and Drug Administration has approved expanding the use ...
Cochlear implants (CIs) have revolutionised auditory rehabilitation by electrically stimulating the auditory nerve, thereby restoring a functional sense of hearing in individuals with severe hearing ...
MED-EL’s cochlear implants are now FDA-approved in children seven months and older with bilateral sensorineural hearing loss ...
VALENCIA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Advanced Bionics (AB), a global leader in cochlear implant technology, in collaboration with Phonak, a leading provider of life-changing hearing solutions, receives ...
A four-year-old boy from Oklahoma, born with congenital CMV, experiences the world of sound for the first time after ...
But, Hearing loss is so severe, it is now viewed as public health issue, with some 66,000 people losing their hearing every year. Some simply wake up no longer being able to hear, for no apparent ...
Radio Head Gal is both the alter-ego of TED speaker Rebecca Knill and the name of her new memoir. In it, she documents her life as a deaf person before and after she received cochlear implants. In ...
Ray Cathey is on a journey from silence to new sounds. Cathey's hearing took a pounding when he was an air rescue paramedic ...