Hearing International

In Japan many things are erotic that would not be considered such in our culture.  The Japanese have taken the eating of certain eels, raw fish, and other native foods to erotic heights. In Japanese culture, ear cleaning is a uniquely intimate procedure that demonstrates a huge amount of trust when someone else is allowed to introduce fairly sharp instruments into your ear canals (that’s

This week Part IV of our Hearing International saga honoring the War of 1812 tries to put this story together to investigate if deafness cojntributed to the War and it could have been avoided if the King actually had better hearing. So….What Do We Know?  Over the past three weeks of exploring the War of 1812 and its causes we have

  This week Hearing International continues to honor the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 and presents the third article in the series investigating if the War of 1812 could have been caused by the Deafness of King George III of Great Britain.  The saga continues with an investigation of his successor, King George IV.  As is the custom, George III’s

  This week Hearing International continues to honor the War of 1812 and presents the second in the series of articles that looks at the issue of whether the War of 1812 could have been caused by the deafness of King George III of Great Britain.  To that end, it is necessary to review the life and medical history of George III,

Hearing International looks at the War of 1812 on its 200th anniversary. We will consider in a multipart series the question:   Could the War of 1812 (called the Anglo-American War in Britain) and, possibly, the US Revolutionary War have been caused directly or indirectly by King George III’s possible deafness?  First some background information on the War of 1812. The US Perspective  Going to war with

Last week at Hearing International we reviewed the military’s need to jam signals in the operation areas.  As we found out it basically saved the lives of soldiers deployed to various areas where hostile action was required.  This week Hearing International investigates the actual issue of if buzzing is caused in cochlear implants by signal jamming and if so what

Since it is Memorial Day it’s necessary to pause and reflect on those that have served and the plight of our current soldiers as they work hard to protect us and bring order to the chaos of Iraq, Afghanistan, and other parts of the world. Last week our guest author, Tarek El Dousseki, M.D., Audiological Physician and Director of Audiology and

This week at Hearing International, we are proud to have our guest author Dr. Tarek El Dessouki, discuss a very real problem that is a significant issue to cochlear implant patients in the Middle East.  This area of the world has seen significant turmoil in the past number of years. The conflict of military interests and the  need to hear and understand

While working for one of the major hearing aid manufacturers, I had the opportunity to be involved with the international sales team for quite a long time.  That is when I learned that there were different product prices for various countries. I offered to purchase hearing aid products for my US Audiology practice from our Brazilian distributor, who would have sold them to

While researching this week’s blog for Hearing International I discovered a recent survey by Sonova.  Although it appears that these results were released last October at Hear the World.com, a Phonak website, the survey deserves some discussion here as it has some interesting data of possible international significance. First the study surveyed 4,335 people in 5 countries: the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Switzerland,