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Study finds obesity in adolescents is linked to heightened rate of hearing loss

By David Kirkwood On June 19, 2013 · 1 Comment

NEW YORK—Anil K. Lalwani, MD, lead author of a new study showing an association between hearing loss and obesity among adolescents, recommends that obese adolescents “receive regular hearing screening so they can be treated appropriately to avoid cognitive and behavioral issues.”

The study, published June 17 in The Laryngoscope, found that obesity [...]

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Coming soon, to a theater near Chicago, Illinois’s first hearing-looped movie house

On June 19, 2013 By David Kirkwood

HIGHLAND PARK, IL—Illinois will get its first “looped” movie theater next month when the Renaissance Place Cinema in downtown Highland Park starts offering hearing loop technology to its patrons as part of ongoing renovations. This technology allows a movie’s audio to be amplified and delivered directly to hearing aid wearers’ ears through their hearing aid [...]

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FDA approval will facilitate MRIs for some cochlear implant wearers

On June 17, 2013 By David Kirkwood

DURHAM, NC—Med-El USA announced on June 14 that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given its approval for wearers of three models of Med-El cochlear implants to undergo magnetic resonance imaging with 1.5 Tesla (T) MRI systems while leaving the internal magnet of their cochlear implant [...]

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Older Americans with hearing loss have higher incidence of health problems

On June 12, 2013 By David Kirkwood

People age 70 or over with hearing loss are substantially more likely to have been hospitalized in the past year and to have had more days of self-reported poor health than their contemporaries with normal hearing. So report Dane J. Genther, MD, and colleagues in a Research Letter to appear in this [...]

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Testing begins on drug treatment for hearing loss and tinnitus

On June 11, 2013 By David Kirkwood

LONDON–Autifony Therapeutics, a British startup biotech company, has launched a Phase 1 trial of an experimental drug, AUT00063, that is designed to treat age-related hearing loss and tinnitus by targeting deficits in auditory processing in the brain that are believed to cause these problems.

Charles Large, PhD, co-founder and chief scientific officer of [...]

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Once seen as a foe, mobile phone industry to be honored by Hearing Loss Association

On June 5, 2013 By David Kirkwood

By David H. Kirkwood

BETHESDA, MD—Back in the late 1990s, few would have believed that advocates for people with hearing loss would ever have a kind word for the wireless phone industry.

That was the time that mobile phones were really starting to catch on in the U.S. The bad news, as users and manufacturers [...]

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New directional microphone design is inspired by the ears of a fly

On June 5, 2013 By David Kirkwood

 

 

MONTREAL—People are often said to see like an eagle or run like a deer. Maybe some day, those with acute hearing will be said to have ears like an Ormia ochracea.

Probably not, but this parasitic fly about the size of a common housefly does have incredibly sensitive directional hearing. That’s why researchers [...]

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New Cochlear accessory lets implant wearers go under water, but it’s the company’s stock that takes a plunge

On June 3, 2013 By David Kirkwood

 

 This post was published June 3 and then revised and re-published June 4.

CENTENNIAL, CO—The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Aqua Accessory, Cochlear Americas, the company that makes the device, announced on May 31. Meanwhile, in an unrelated development, Cochlear Americas’ Australian-based parent company, Cochlear, saw its stock plunge [...]

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New executive director named to succeed Brenda Battat at Hearing Loss Association

On May 29, 2013 By David Kirkwood

BETHESDA, MD–Anna Gilmore Hall, who began her career as a registered nurse and has worked in association management for two decades, will become the next executive director of the Hearing Loss Association of America, the HLAA board of trustees announced on May 22. She will officially assume her duties on [...]

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Ohio tries to curb online hearing aid sales

On May 28, 2013 By David Kirkwood

COLUMBUS, OH—Reacting to the growing prevalence of direct-to-consumer hearing aid sales, the Ohio House of Representatives is considering legislation that would ban the sale of hearing aids to any Ohio resident who has not received an in-person hearing evaluation at a location within the state.

Introduced in March by Rep. Rex Damschroder (R-Fremont), House Bill [...]

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Hearing industry research consortium will award $300,000 to its two initial grant recipients

On May 22, 2013 By David Kirkwood

MINNEAPOLIS–The Hearing Industry Research Consortium (IRC) announced on Monday the recipients of $300,000 in research grants in its initial Request for Proposals (RFP) program. Piers Dawes, PhD, a research fellow at the University of Manchester in the UK, and Andrea Pittman, PhD, associate professor at Arizona State University, will each receive $150,000 to support their [...]

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