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Read the latest news about audiology and hearing aid systems.
BHI Redesigns Hearing Healthcare Professional Resources on their Website
July 31, 2011
Since the opening of the new BHI in 2005 the resources for hearing healthcare professionals has grown dramatically on the BHI website. Many of the public relations tools on the BHI website are designe... Read More
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Vaccine Discovery and Translation of New Vaccine Technology
July 30, 2011
The second paper in The Lancet Series on the New Decade of Vaccines focuses on vaccine discovery and translation of new vaccine technology. The paper is by Dr Steve Black, Center for Global Health, Un... Read More
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Beltone Holds Annual Meeting in San Antonio
July 29, 2011
Company Honors Distinguished Hearing Care Practitioners Highlights New Hearing Aid Technologies Beltone held its 2011 National Meeting at the JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort and Spa in San... Read More
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A Tuning Gear for the Tip Link: New NIDCD Research
July 28, 2011
To elicit sweet, crowd-pleasing notes as they strum, guitarists need to keep the tension on their guitar strings sufficiently tightened, which is adjusted at the tuning gear. Similarly, in order for y... Read More
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Sonova Appoints Lukas Braunschweiler As New CEO
July 27, 2011
The Board of Directors of Sonova Holding AG today appointed Lukas Braunschweiler as new CEO of the company. The 55 year old Swiss citizen is currently the CEO of the Swiss technology group Ruag, his m... Read More
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William F. Austin Receives 2011 Jefferson Award
July 26, 2011
39th annual "Nobel Prize" for Public Service Awards Presented at Washington, D.C., and New York City Ceremonies Starkey Laboratories, Inc., a global leader in hearing technology, is proud to announce... Read More
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Injection Therapy For Sudden Hearing Loss Disorder May Be Suitable Alternative to Oral Steroids
July 25, 2011
Treating idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss with injections of steroids directly into the ear appears to result in recovery of hearing that is not less than recovery obtained with the standa... Read More
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Siemens Hearing Instruments to Showcase its Range of NHS and Retail Audiology Solutions at BAA 2011
July 24, 2011
Lifestyle enhancing innovations include IMPACT, Aquaris and miniTek Siemens Hearing Instruments will showcase its range of Retail and NHS products at this year's British Academy of Audiology (BAA) Con... Read More
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Saving 521,000 Patient Visits Through Best Practices
July 23, 2011
In our study relating hearing aid user success and best practices we found the number of patient visits to adjust the hearing aid were highly correlated with real-world success. In comparing patients... Read More
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ReSound Develops Dual-Microphone Wind Noise Reduction
July 22, 2011
New wind noise protection feature provides improved listening comfort for hearing aid users. http://www.gnresound.com - ReSound, the technology leader in hearing aid solutions, has developed WindGuard... Read More
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Beltone's Campaign Highlights Inspirational Customer Experiences
July 21, 2011
Featured Stories Shed Light on the Everyday Impact of Hearing Loss At age 38, Dr. John Brein, a respected anesthesiologist from Chesapeake, Virginia, began to notice that he was having difficulty hear... Read More
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Helping Deaf People to Enjoy Music Again
July 20, 2011
Researchers from the University of Southampton are investigating how to help deaf people, who have received a cochlear implant, to get more enjoyment from music. Music professor David Nicholls and Dr... Read More
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Starkey Announces Hearing Innovation Expo 2012 at the New Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas
July 19, 2011
Media Mogul Sir Richard Branson One of Several Featured Keynote Speakers Starkey Laboratories, Inc., one of the world's leading hearing technology companies, is proud to announce that it will hold the... Read More
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Researchers Identify Components of Speech Recognition Pathway in Humans
July 18, 2011
Finding suggests speech perception evolved from animals Neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) have defined, for the first time, three different processing stages that a human... Read More
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International Conferences in Lake Como, Italy: NHS 2012 the 2nd International Conference on Adult Hearing
July 17, 2011
On June 2012 two major international scientific meetings on Hearing will be held in Cernobbio (Lake Como), namely the NHS 2012 Conference (Beyond Newborn Hearing Screening. Infant and Childhood Hearin... Read More
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350 Million Adults Have Diabetes After Explosion in Prevalence Spanning Three Decades
July 16, 2011
An estimated 350 million people in the world have diabetes, according to a major new international study published Online First by The Lancet. The study shows that diabetes prevalence has risen (in ma... Read More
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NY City Forces Retirement of Police Officers Wearing Hearing Aids
July 15, 2011
In an article published June 19, 2011, (www.nytimes.com/2011/06/20/nyregion/ny-enforces-ban-on-police-officers-using-hearing-aids.html) the New York Times reported the New York City police department... Read More
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Saliva is Effective in Screening for CMV Infection in Newborns, Says NIH-funded Research
July 14, 2011
Swabbing a newborn's mouth for saliva can be used to quickly and effectively screen for cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection, a leading cause of hearing loss in children, says research in the June 2 issue... Read More
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British Society of Audiology Awards Jos Millar Shield Award to Douglas L. Beck and Ravi Sockalingam
July 13, 2011
The British Society of Audiology (BSA) recently nominated Douglas L. Beck, Au.D., Director of Professional Relations, Oticon Inc., and Ravi Sockalingam, Ph.D., Director of Clinical Research and Profes... Read More
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Researchers Reveal Function of Novel Molecule That Underlies Human Deafness
July 12, 2011
New research from the University of Sheffield has revealed that a novel molecular mechanism that underlies deafness is caused by a mutation of a specific microRNA called miR-96. The discovery could pr... Read More
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