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EDEN PRAIRIE, MINNESOTA — On Founder’s Day, Starkey honored William F. Austin and the legacy he has built over more than 65 years in the hearing industry. The company said Austin’s career represents more than a professional milestone, reflecting decades of leadership shaped by compassion, service, and a belief in the life-changing impact of hearing. Through his vision and humanitarian

What does Auracast actually feel like in a real-world performance? In this episode, Andrew Bellavia visits the Marriott Theatre near Chicago, where he was invited to personally experience Auracast during a live production and speak with the people behind its implementation. The deployment brought broadcast audio into a working theater environment, giving hearing aid users—and others—the opportunity to connect directly to

MONTPELLIER, FRANCE — Cilcare announced it will present clinical results from its first observational clinical study, DIAMANT, at the 2026 ARO MidWinter Meeting in Puerto Rico. The results will be presented by Professor Jérôme Nevoux, ENT physician at Bicêtre Hospital, Paris, during a scientific session dedicated to Neural Mechanisms of Speech Perception. Cilcare said sensorineural hearing loss is an underrecognized

The European Union of Hearing Aid Acousticians (EUHA) has issued a call for papers for the 70th International Congress of Hearing Care Acousticians, scheduled for October 14–16, 2026, in Hanover, Germany. EUHA described the meeting as a major international event for the hearing care industry, combining a scientific lecture program with an industry exhibition and networking opportunities. Submission deadline and

DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA — MED-EL USA announced continued expansion of its virtual healthcare capabilities through Remote Care, a telehealth platform designed for audiologists, and the companion HearCare App for cochlear implant recipients. The system is intended to support remote communication, data sharing, and ongoing care outside the clinic. Using Remote Care, audiologists can request and review system checks, adjust audio processor

EDEN PRAIRIE, MINNESOTA — Starkey has been named a Silver Stevie Award winner for Customer Service Excellence, recognizing the company’s performance in supporting hearing professionals, patients, and partners worldwide. The recognition follows what Starkey describes as its strongest customer service performance to date, including record-high satisfaction and responsiveness metrics in 2025. The Stevie Awards are an international program recognizing achievement in

INNSBRUCK, AUSTRIA — MED-EL founders Ingeborg and Erwin Hochmair have been named Laureates of the 2026 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (QEPrize), an international award recognizing engineering innovations with global impact. The 2026 prize highlights the design and development of modern neural interfaces—technologies intended to restore lost human functions—and recognizes engineers whose work has helped establish and advance these approaches. The

By Dr. Jennifer J. Gans Tinnitus occupies a uniquely uncomfortable place in modern medicine. Patients come into the doctor’s office with a clear, credible complaint—ringing, buzzing, hissing, or electrical noise that won’t stop—yet exam after exam often shows nothing “wrong.” The ears look healthy. The scans are normal. The hearing test may even come back within normal limits. And still,

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BOSTON, MASS. — A new real-world analysis of 97 U.S. patients with bothersome tinnitus treated with Lenire, an FDA-approved bimodal neuromodulation device, has been made available on medRxiv, a preprint server for health sciences. The paper, titled “First Real-World Evidence Utilizing the Multidimensional Tinnitus Functional Index to Assess Treatment Impact with Bimodal Neuromodulation,” reports outcomes measured using both the Tinnitus