Hearing Health & Technology Matters
Timely information and lively insights for everyone who cares about hearing loss.
- GN Hearing Appoints Jakob Gudbrand as New CEO
BALLERUP, DENMARK — The GN Group announced today the appointment of Jakob Gudbrand as CEO of GN Hearing and member of GN Store Nord’s Executive Management, effective as of February 18, 2019. The […]
- Santa – Can You HEAR Me?!
Dear Santa, OK, Claus, this is IT! Year after year I write you, asking nicely for stuff, mostly hearing loss-related. And it’s like I’m writing to someone who’s not real! Have you been taking my gifts to […]
- The Sounds of Mars
This segment of Hearing International could almost be called Hearing Interplanetary as it relates to the sounds of Mars. Recently, the multinational project called InSight Lander found its way to Mars to study the make […]
INNOVATIONS IN HEARING HEALTHCARE
- Newly Published Studies Could be a Watershed Moment Toward Third Party Funding of Hearing Devices
by Brian Taylor, AuD, and Kelly Tremblay, PhD Two studies, published by JAMA Otolaryngology on November 8th are compulsory reads for hearing care professionals concerned about accessibility and affordability of […]
- US Ear Device Patents in October 2018
As long as people have been wearing hearing aids, and as long as audiologists have been fitting and tailoring them to individual users, there has always been one intractable problem. That is that hearing aids are standalone […]
- Oticon Adds Opn Custom Devices for VA, Expanding Choices for US Veterans
Oticon announced this week that its Opn Custom hearing aids are now available through the Veterans Affairs Administration, Department of Defense and other federal agencies. The company now adds five new custom styles, […]
- Home technology vs school technology
In the last few months I had questions from three different people asking what I thought about children changing their hearing aids when they get to school – listening with different equipment at home and at school. […]
- Automatic Fall Detection: A Step in the Right Direction
The Impact of Falling Falls are a tremendous problem worldwide and have the potential to cause significant personal injury, physical decline, activity limitation and even death. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) […]
- A Northwestern University study on Diplacusis
Lauren Ervin is a current graduate student working towards her Master’s in Communication Disorders at Northwestern University. Her current research is focused on the phenomenon of diplacusis (or false pitch […]
- The Value of Anonymity
Unless you are a hermit (hermitess?), you have heard about and read the anonymous “inside resistance” op-ed published during the first week of September. An anonymous senior member of the President’s […]
- Dr. Cliff Compares Kirkland Signature to its Name Brand Counterparts
Costco now accounts for approximately 12% of the United States hearing aid market. No doubt this is largely in part to their Kirkland Signature brand hearing aids. However, the feature that makes these devices so […]
- A Commentary of An Interesting Case
Editor’s note: I am most pleased to have Jim Jerger make a contribution to our Pathways Column. Correctly considered the “father of diagnostic audiology”, Dr. Jerger has seen and reported on many […]
- RIC Hearing Aid Acoustic Considerations
Acoustic Application for Successful Hearing Aid Acceptance and Satisfaction A successful RIC hearing aid fitting, like many hearing aid fittings, is not necessarily related to any specific fitting formula, but is based on […]
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