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EHDI Passes Committee, Goes to Full Senate for Consideration
The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee passed a bill to reauthorize federal newborn hearing screening programs for the next 5 years, the American Cochlear Implant Alliance...
View ArticleACI Alliance Releases Cochlear Implant Educational Materials for Better...
The American Cochlear Implant (ACI) Alliance—a not-for-profit membership organization created with the purpose of eliminating barriers to cochlear implantation—announced that it has made the following...
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Beyond Controversies: The Science Behind Central Auditory Processing Disorder
Research | May 2017 Hearing Review There is general scientific agreement on the definition, diagnosis, and treatment of CAPD By Gail D. Chermak, PhD, Frank E. Musiek, PhD, and Jeffrey Weihing, PhD...
View ArticleNational University of Singapore Researchers Develop Device for Treatment of...
A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed a novel handheld device, known as CLiKX, for the treatment of a condition called Otitis Media with Effusion (OME), or...
View ArticleOntario Government to Invest Additional $3.2 Million for Infant Hearing Program
The government of Ontario, Canada is providing additional support to detect potential hearing loss in newborns sooner and ensure that families with children who have permanent hearing loss—or are at...
View ArticleIndiana State Department of Health Expands Children’s Hearing Aid Assistance...
The Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Education at the Indiana State Department of Health is working to make hearing aids more available to deaf and hard-of-hearing children in Indiana through...
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University of Colorado Boulder Study Examines Impact of EHDI Guidelines on...
By Lisa Marshall Children with hearing loss who are diagnosed by 3 months of age and receive interventions by 6 months develop a far greater vocabulary than those whose diagnosis and treatment come...
View ArticleMED-EL Sponsors Hunter Taylor in Deaflympics
Hunter Taylor, 22, and his deaf volleyball teammates from the United States have their sights set on Olympic gold in Samsun, Turkey—the 23rd Summer Deaflympics—which kicked off July 18, MED-EL...
View ArticlePrevalence of Hearing Loss Among US Teens Remains Unchanged, Says JAMA Study
Although there was an increase in the percentage of US youth ages 12 to 19 reporting exposure to loud music through headphones from 1988-2010, researchers did not find significant changes in the...
View ArticleChildren with Hearing Loss Benefit from Early Interventions, ‘Pediatrics’...
By Melissa Jenco, News Content Editor, AAP News According to an article in AAP News, children with permanent hearing loss developed better language skills the earlier they started interventions,...
View ArticleSensorion Receives Orphan Drug Designation for Chemotherapy-Induced, Hearing...
Sensorion (FR0012596468 – ALSEN), a Montpellier, France-based biotech company developing drug treatments for inner ear diseases, announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted...
View ArticleCDC Examines Gaps in Newborn Screening for Hearing Loss and Critical...
The August 24 version of the Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) highlights the benefits of and gaps in assessing point-of-care...
View ArticleINSERM Researchers Find Premature Babies May Have Increased Risk of...
Rates of survival without severe disabilities among premature babies have increased during the past two decades, but these children remain at high risk of developmental delay, concludes a study...
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University of Utah Health Research Will Study Effect of Antiviral Medication...
A National Institutes of Health-supported nationwide clinical trial will test a novel approach to combat hearing loss in children infected by a relatively unknown virus, cytomegalovirus (CMV), the...
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Study Reveals Underlying Cause of Enlarged Vestibular Aqueduct (EVA)
Bigger is not always better, especially when it comes to structures in the inner ear. Enlargement of the vestibular aqueduct (EVA) has long been associated with hearing loss. A new study using a mouse...
View ArticleGrason-Stadler Announces Release of GSI Novus Screener
Grason‐Stadler, a provider of clinical audiometric systems, announced the release of a new AABR/OAE screener, the GSI NovusTM. The GSI Novus is a hand-held, comprehensive newborn hearing screening...
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Cochlear Limited Announces Release of Baha SoundArc
Cochlear Limited (ASX: COH), a manufacturer of implantable hearing solutions, announced the commercial availability of the new CochlearTM Baha® SoundArc in the United States and Canada. The Baha...
View ArticleTusker Medical Enrolls First In-Office Patients in Study to Evaluate...
Tusker Medical, Inc, a Menlo Park, CA-based medical device company for ENT surgeons, announced the enrollment of the first in-office patients in the OTTER Study, a clinical study for Tusker’s Tubes...
View ArticleFennec Pharmaceuticals’ Cisplatin-Ototoxicity Treatment Given Breakthrough...
Fennec Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:FENC) (TSX:FRX), a Durham, NC-based pharmaceutical company focused on developing therapies for the prevention of platinum-induced ototoxicity in pediatric patients,...
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Pediatric Hearing Loss and ‘The Listening Project’ Documentary: An Interview...
Inside the Research | May 2018 Hearing Review By Douglas L. Beck, AuD An extremely important and exciting movie called The Listening Project has recently been released that everyone in hearing...
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