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Industry's First Meta-Analysis Comparing Tinnitus Treatments Shows Effective Results
May 18, 2011
Results mark Tinnitus Awareness Week, highlight Neuromonics Tinnitus Treatment For anyone who hasn't heard, it's Tinnitus Awareness Week - and with the observance come results of the first meta-analys... Read More
Industry
Dynamic SoundField Loudspeaker Wins Red Dot Product Design Award
May 17, 2011
The DigiMaster 5000 loudspeaker by Phonak, a key component of the company's Dynamic SoundField classroom amplification system, has been awarded a red dot 2011 Product Design award. A red dot jury of 3... Read More
Industry
Will We Hear the Light? - Surprising Discovery that Infrared Can Activate Heart and Ear Cells
May 16, 2011
University of Utah scientists used invisible infrared light to make rat heart cells contract and toadfish inner-ear cells send signals to the brain. The discovery someday might improve cochlear implan... Read More
Research
Sycle.net, the Industry's Number One Practice Management System, Announces Integration with CounselEAR
May 15, 2011
On the heels of several exciting product launches at AudiologyNOW! Sycle.net announces system integration with CounselEAR. "It makes perfect sense for Sycle.net and CounselEAR to integrate. Both syste... Read More
Industry
Oticon's 'Let's Hear It for His Health' Campaign Spotlights Hearing Health During Men's Health Month
May 15, 2011
An often overlooked component of men's health care is a focus on hearing health - despite the fact that six out of ten people with hearing loss are men. Oticon's new "Let's Hear It for His Health" cam... Read More
Industry
Starkey Hearing Foundation and Miley Cyrus Encourage All to Listen Carefully in Time for May's Better Hearing and Speech Month
May 14, 2011
With the startling rise in teen hearing loss revealing a 31 percent increase over the past decade, the Starkey Hearing Foundation, joined by recording artist and actress Miley Cyrus, has launched the... Read More
Industry
Who Helps You to Speak Well...Hear Well...Live Well?
May 13, 2011
May is Speech and Hearing Awareness Month. Many of us take our abilities to communicate for granted. Yet the quality of our capacity to speak, hear and be heard is so much more vital to our lives than... Read More
Associations
Sonic Innovations Partners With One-Trak Business Development
May 13, 2011
Salt Lake City—Sonic Innovations, Inc. is partnering with One-Trak Development Group to offer business development services to its customers. The development program focuses on the application o... Read More
Industry
Florida Gun Legislation Would Hinder Pediatricians' Efforts to Protect Children
May 12, 2011
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) joins the Florida Pediatric Society and other physicians and medical professionals in expressing deep concern over the advancement of Florida Senate Bill 432 a... Read More
Associations
Support ReSound's Campaign to Help America Hear
May 11, 2011
This Better Hearing & Speech Month (May), ReSound is donating a pair of hearing aids for every additional 10 people to "like" them on Facebook. The donated hearing aids will go to Help America Hear, a... Read More
Industry
Senators Harkin & Snowe Reintroduce Hearing Aid Tax Credit With Support From 8 Senators
May 10, 2011
Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME) today reintroduced the bipartisan Hearing Aid Tax Credit (S. 905) with 8 original co-sponsors. The bill is unchanged from legislation in the 111th C... Read More
Associations
Emergency Communications Survey-Summary Report, April 2011
May 9, 2011
A summary of the findings from the Wireless RERC's survey on emergency communications and people with disabilities conducted October 2010-January 2011. The survey focused on 2 aspects of emergency com... Read More
Associations
New Video Otoscope from Interacoustics
May 8, 2011
Interacoustics releases their new VIOT™ video otoscope for endoscopy and medical documentation. The LED illumination optical system and electronics are combined in a very compact, practical inst... Read More
Industry
National Hearing Conservation Association Advocates Review of OSHA Interpretation of Feasibility of Occupational Noise Controls
May 7, 2011
In support of its efforts in hearing loss prevention, the National Hearing Conservation Association (NHCA) sent a letter to the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) advoc... Read More
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Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport Introduces Visual Paging Services for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Customers
May 6, 2011
Travelers at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP) now have access to visual as well as audio paging services. Here's how it works. When an audio page is made from the airport's Information... Read More
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Siemens Announces Expert Series of eSeminars
May 5, 2011
Leading independent researchers discuss best practices in hearing aid fittings in a series of free, online seminars Siemens Hearing Instruments, Inc. (www.usa.siemens.com/hearing) announces a series o... Read More
Industry
House Ear Institute Changes Name to House Research Institute
May 5, 2011
House Ear Institute Board of Trustees announced today the nonprofit has changed its name to House Research Institute. The change to Research in the name more accurately reflects the institute's expand... Read More
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'Empowering People' Wins Top Award for Oticon at 2011 AudiologyNOW!
May 4, 2011
Hearing Care Professionals Contribute $10,000 Worth of Pedal Power for a Worthy Cause Hearing care professionals attending the 2011 AudiologyNOW! conference in Chicago voted Oticon, Inc.'s "Empowering... Read More
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Study: Abuse Rates Higher Among Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children Compared with Hearing Youth
May 3, 2011
Depression, post-traumatic stress also more prevalent than among hearing youths A new study at Rochester Institute of Technology indicates that the incidence of maltreatment, including neglect and phy... Read More
Research
Monthly Review - We Laud You!?
May 3, 2011
Laud means to 'extol or praise', but exactly how do I use this word in a sentence to thank you for being a part of AudiologyOnline? Speaking of laud, earlier this month we heard from many of you about... Read More
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