Monday, January 18th 2010 Australia is known for its beer, its bar-bies, kangaroos, koalas and lovers. Lovers? Well, maybe that’s not the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Australia but, according to a recent Australian report, the country is hot to trot thanks to advances in hearing aid technology. Yep, all [...]
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Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) — A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected a class-action lawsuit seeking to hold Apple Inc responsible for possible hearing loss caused by using its popular iPod music player. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco affirmed a 2008 district court ruling that the plaintiffs failed to show [...]
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LONDON, Dec. 29, 2009 (Reuters) — Individually designed music therapy may help reduce noise levels in people suffering from tinnitus, or ear ringing, German scientists said on Monday. The researchers designed musical treatments adapted to the musical tastes of patients with ear-ringing and then stripped out sound frequencies that matched the individual’s tinnitus frequency. After [...]
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Sonitus Medical Inc, San Mateo, Calif, a privately held medical device company, reports the development of its SoundBite hearing system, a nonsurgical and removable hearing solution that the company says is designed to imperceptibly transmit sound via the teeth. Relying on the principle of bone conduction, the hearing and communication platform is initially intended as [...]
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Children who have cochlear implants (CI) rank their quality of life (QOL) equal to their normally hearing (NH) peers, indicates new research in the February 2010 issue of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery. A cochlear implant is an electronic device that restores partial hearing to the deaf. It is surgically implanted in the inner [...]
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A team of researchers from the University of Oregon, Eugene, Ore, say they have isolated an independent processing channel of synapses inside the brain’s auditory cortex that deals specifically with shutting off sound processing at appropriate times. Such regulation is vital for hearing and for understanding speech. The discovery, detailed in the February 11 issue [...]
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Tinnitus does not appear to be a highly inherited condition (ie, does not pass frequently from parents to offspring), according to a report in the February issue of Archives of Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives Journals. “Tinnitus, or the perception of sound without an external acoustic stimulus, is a common but poorly [...]
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According to a survey conducted by Hear the World, a global initiative by leading hearing system manufacturer Phonak, despite significant advances in hearing technology, hearing aids were associated with old age more than any other accessories surveyed, including glasses, a wheelchair, crutches, and canes for the blind. This misperception has serious consequences for the 700 [...]
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New research published in a recent edition of the American Journal of Audiology, a journal published by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), Rockville, Md, reported that cardiovascular health positively impacts hearing over time, particularly among older adults. Growing older can contribute to decreased hearing acuity; however, age is only one of many factors that contribute [...]
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Scientists have gained new insight into why a relatively short-term hearing deprivation during childhood may lead to persistent hearing deficits, long after hearing is restored to normal. The research, published by Cell Press in the March 11 issue of the journal Neuron, reveals that, much like the visual cortex, development of the auditory cortex is [...]
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