New Bills in California, Nevada Aim to Make Hearing Aid Coverage for Children...
Legislators in both California and Nevada have introduced bills to make it mandatory for insurers to cover the cost of hearing aids for children, according to articles in the Santa Monica Daily Press...
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Vanderbilt University Researchers Plan to Study Personalized Cochlear Implant...
By Kelsey Herbers, Information Officer, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Vanderbilt University Medical Center recently received a $3.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to...
View ArticleDeaf Children with Implants Since Infancy More Likely to Speak
Researchers from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago present further evidence that deaf children who received cochlear implants (implanted electronic hearing device) before 12...
View ArticleDuke Global Health Institute Researchers Find Factors Associated with Infant...
By Nick Steenwyk, Duke Global Health Institute Between one and two out of 1,000 newborns have hearing loss, but what factors correlate with newborn hearing problems? Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI)...
View ArticleOticon to Exhibit in Space #1012 at 2019 AAA Conference, March 27-30
Oticon announced that it will be exhibiting in Space #1012 at the 2019 American Academy of Audiology (AAA) Conference. In play at the Oticon exhibit, will be a new, child-friendly hearing solution that...
View ArticleInfant Speech Processing Important to Establishment of Language-Cognition Link
By Hilary Hurd Anyaso, Law and Social Sciences Editor, Northwestern University A new Northwestern University study provides evidence that infants’ increasingly precise perceptual tuning to the sounds...
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AHead Simulations Launches CARL Training Simulator
Based on years of research and development at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada, AHead Simulations announced the official release of their first training simulator, CARL, to market. Ahead...
View ArticleIda Institute to Introduce New Resources at AAA 2019, March 27-29
The Ida Institute announced it will introduce a number of new resources and initiatives at the 2019 American Academy of Audiology (AAA) Conference, from apps, to eLearning courses, and various new...
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Oticon Introduces Opn Play
Oticon announces Opn Play™, a new child-friendly hearing solution, is said to “improve speech understanding in simple and complex listening environments and provides access to multiple speakers,...
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Researchers Identify 38 New Mouse Genes Related to Hearing Loss
Multiple new genes involved in hearing loss have been revealed in a huge study of mouse mutants by researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and King’s College London, and colleagues. The new...
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Maico Diagnostics Launches easyScreen with BERAphone
Maico Diagnostics, MPLS, MN, an Eden Prairie, Minn-based global manufacturer of hearing instruments since 1937, announced the launch of easyScreen with BERAphone®. The easyScreen is said to unite...
View ArticleBoys Town Research Hospital Awarded $11 Million Grant for Pediatric Hearing...
Boys Town National Research Hospital announced it has been awarded an $11 million grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)....
View ArticleNHS to Offer Auditory Brainstem Surgery for Deaf Children in the UK
Pioneering brain surgery that allows children who are deaf to experience the sensation of hearing for the first time is being made routinely available, National Health Service (NHS) England announced....
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Young Cancer Survivors with Severe Hearing Loss Experience Difficulties...
Researchers have identified factors that explain why severe hearing loss sets up pediatric brain tumor survivors for reading difficulties with far-reaching consequences. The findings lay the...
View ArticleACI Alliance CI2019 Pediatric Meeting to Take Place in Florida on July 10-13,...
CI2019 Pediatric: Get Ready! The Diplomat Hotel – Hollywood, Florida – July 10–13, 2019 Educational Course Directors Ivette Cejas, PhD and Fred Telischi, MD University of Miami Department of...
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University of Washington Researchers Develop Smartphone App to Detect Ear...
By Sarah McQuate, Science Writer | University of Washington News & UW College of Engineering Ear infections are the most common reason that parents bring their children to a pediatrician, according...
View ArticleIda Institute’s ‘Growing Up with Hearing Loss’ Tool Adds New Chapter on...
Ida Institute announced the introduction of a renamed and updated ‘Growing Up with Hearing Loss’ tool that features a new chapter on the youngest people with hearing loss, newborn through age 3. The...
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OtoNexus Medical Technologies Wins WomanCorporateDirectors Foundation Launch...
A woman-led medical device company whose product helps diagnoses viral and bacterial ear infections in children, has just won WomenCorporateDirectors Foundation’s (WCD) inaugural Launch Zone...
View ArticleThieme Medical Publishers Announces Release of 3rd Edition of ‘Pediatric...
Thieme Medical Publishers announces the release of the third edition of Pediatric Audiology: Diagnosis, Technology, and Management. The book is said to be “fully updated with cutting-edge topics”...
View ArticleOhio Lawmakers Introduce Bill Requiring Insurers to Cover Cost of Children’s...
Lawmakers in Ohio are supporting a bill that would require insurance companies to cover the cost of hearing aids for those age 21 and under, according to an article in The Columbus Dispatch. House Bill...
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