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Nick Fitzgerald has served as HHTM’s Chief Marketing Officer for the past 3 years. He is the President and Owner of AuDSEO, a full service digital marketing agency. With over 15 years of digital marketing experience, Nick is a highly data-driven marketer, with expertise in search engine optimization, digital analytics and forensics, social media, digital advertising, and web development. He has been involved in the construction and optimization of nearly 1,000 web presences, including some of the largest Fortune 500 companies.

Schwerhörige auf Reisen, nützliche Tipps für unterwegs

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Gael Hannan is the Editor of The Better Hearing Consumer @ HHTM English-language version – A HoH On The Road: Hearing Loss Travel Tips Translated into German by Birgit Meyer, a member of the European Federation of Hard of Hearing People (EFHOH). Schwerhörige auf Reisen, nützliche Tipps für unterwegs Kann es sein, dass Deine Schwerhörigkeit Dich davon abhält zu reisen, aus

ASHA’s Chief Staff Officer for Audiology: Change Is Coming, Audiology Practitioners

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By Neil J. DiSarno Tomorrow’s audiologists will be diligent practitioners of patient-centered care, more accountable than ever before in requesting reimbursement for services, and regularly pursuing new and different types of professional education. They will lend their care expertise to resolving acute cases as they always have, but they will also expand to long-term management of patients’ hearing health. And

Shingles and the Ramsay Hunt Syndrome Connection

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Shingles is a painful, blistering skin rash caused by the same virus that causes chickenpox. When the virus enters your body as chickenpox when you are a child it stays in an inactive state within the nerve endings for the rest of your life. If the virus becomes active again many years later, you have Shingles. The rash usually

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Wrong Again: White Coat Fraud and Government Regulation Take It Out to the Parking Lot

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Hearing Economics is juggling several series right now, including one on regulation of professional practices and another on professional theft and fraud. They’re running in parallel as a reminder that theft is not only immoral and unethical, it’s powerfully destructive. Innovative, over-the-top frauds can influence Government policy and spending at least as much as powerful special interest groups. Big

Vote to keep America on the road forward

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By David H. Kirkwood One of the funniest things I’ve read on HearingHealthMatters.org or any other blog is my colleague Holly Hosford-Dunn’s post this week on zombies. Yes, zombies. The topic doesn’t have much to do with Hearing Economics, which is Holly’s usual beat. But tonight is Halloween, so she’s entitled to step outside her usual boundaries. I urge you

Working Memory and Hearing Aids: Does Rehab Work?

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This past week I went to a workshop about Cognitive Health and how it affects the fitting of Hearing Aids. It started out showing connections to a person’s Working Memory and how well they did with hearing aids. The better the working memory the better the person could hear in noise and in more complicated situations. What is working memory?

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A New, Renewable Hearing Aid Market for Hallowe’en

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Zombies are a value stock. They are wordless and oozing and brain dead, but they’re an ever-expanding market with no glass ceiling. Zombies are a target-rich environment, literally and figuratively.{{1}}[[1]] Why Modern Life Feels Rather Undead[[1]] No doubt about it, zombies are a target market for a number of goods and services, but one that Audiologists have thus far failed to exploit in

Recommended reading

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By David H. Kirkwood I read an article in The New York Times yesterday that I think anyone involved with hearing aids ought to read. It’s not that I think you’ll enjoy it. Probably you won’t, especially if you manufacture, market, or dispense hearing aids in the traditional manner. But you should still pay attention to what it says. As for

The Link with Second-hand Smoke and Hearing Loss

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The list is growing on the ill effects of second-hand smoke. A report released in 2011 connects secondhand smoke and hearing loss in teenagers. The link was found when data from 1533 US participants, aged 12 to 19, revealed a higher level of a nicotine compound in the blood of those with hearing loss in at least one ear. Teens

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British Columbia: Brent and The Beastie Boys Do Economics

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I had the distinct pleasure and honor of speaking to the British Columbia Association of Speech/Language Pathologists & Audiologists (BCASLPA) on October 13, 2012. Although I cannot say those who attended my session felt as honored, I can say that the small but hardy group stayed with me for a full 5.5 hours while we talked about that ever-fascinating topic,