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Hearing Health & Technology Matters (HHTM) is pleased to announce the second annual Future of Hearing Healthcare Conference will take place from May 24-26, 2022. The three-day virtual event, hosted by HHTM, will provide attendees with insights into the latest treatment and technologies that will have a hand in shaping the future of hearing care. “The Future of Hearing Healthcare

This week we tackle cell and gene therapy for hearing loss. To help us better understand the potential of allogeneic cell therapy we asked Brian Culley, CEO of Lineage Cell Therapeutics to describe how it works and how these types of pharmacologic treatments could stand side-by-side existing treatments such as hearing aids and cochlear implants. Be sure to subscribe to

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA — Otonomy, Inc. (Nasdaq: OTIC), a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development of innovative therapeutics for neurotology, today announced positive top-line results from the Phase 2a clinical trial of OTO-413 in subjects with hearing loss. The randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial demonstrated that a single intratympanic injection of 0.3 mg OTO-413, a sustained exposure formulation of brain-derived neurotrophic

This week, celebrity influencer and hearing advocate, Heather Thomson sits down with Shari Eberts to address the challenges and blessings of navigating hearing loss in children and empowering her son to own his hearing health as he enters adulthood. Heather recently partnered with ReSound to help raise awareness of the hearing loss stigma surrounding young adults and adolescents. During her

“How does your program or service for older adults include hearing loss?” we asked each exhibitor at American Aging Society’s 2022 On Aging Conference. Most of the time we were met with silence, followed by, “That’s an interesting question. Well, we have links on our website to hearing loss resources for people, but it’s not a major part of what

FORTWORTH, TEXAS — Lucid Hearing has announced the launch of fio, the company’s smallest in-canal, rechargeable hearing aid. “Fio is focused on delivering the most comfortable fit and function for the active individual who is looking to maximize every moment of their lives. Hearing health is a right of every individual and our goal at Lucid Hearing is to simply

By Brian Taylor, AuD, Editor-at-Large It is recognized that untreated hearing loss negatively affects quality of life, and is often linked to depression, social isolation and cognitive decline. More recently, it has emerged that the consequences of untreated hearing loss develop in individuals with normal audiograms.  Building on their previous work linking subclinical hearing loss to both depression and cognitive

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA — The term ‘tinnitus’ is searched over 110,000+ times every month. Unfortunately, much of the information readily available through internet searches is inaccurate, whereas most evidence-based information is only available through peer-reviewed journal articles often containing dense scientific jargon. Tinnitus: Advances in Prevention, Assessment, and Management aims to bridge this gap by providing up-to-date and evidence-based information on

CROOKSTON, MINNESOTA – When author Becky Cymbaluk was unable to find a suitable book about children with hearing aids for her granddaughter with hearing loss, she decided to write Super Kena – A Girl Made Fierce with Hearing Aids. Addressing Challenges Faced by Children with Disabilities Children with disabilities are two to three times more likely to be picked on

If you are a member of the American Academy of Audiology, and you have yet to cast your vote for president-elect, this special episode of This Week in Hearing is well worth your time. Both candidates, Bopanna Ballachanda and Rebekah Cunningham, sat down with TWIH to chat about their career paths and the vision they have for the profession. Be