Hearing News Watch

NORTHFIELD, ILLINOIS — Medline today announced a new partnership with MDHearing, a direct-to-consumer hearing aid manufacturer, to make it easier for people to purchase affordable hearing aids without a prescription. The collaboration marks Medline’s first entrance into the hearing aid market as a distributor. Over half of people aged 70 and over in the United States suffer from mild or moderate hearing loss. Left untreated, it

HANNOVER, GERMANY — In our inner ear, there are two different types of sensory cells that are responsible for hearing. A German research team has now identified the molecular switch for the formation of these inner and outer hair cells and thus found an important building block for the treatment of hearing loss. The inner and outer hair cells develop

LIVONIA, MICHIGAN – The U.S. News & World Report (January 10 edition) ranked Hearing Aid Specialist as a best job for 2023, based on their findings from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and in-house reporting. Hearing Aid Specialist is listed as #15 in the magazine’s list of Best Health Care Support Jobs. The January report predicted an overall increase

BALLERUP, DENMARK — GN’s long serving Chair of the Board, Per Wold-Olsen, has informed the Board that he will retire from the Board at the Annual General Meeting in March. In accordance with the recommended best practices for corporate governance, Per Wold-Olsen had planned to retire earlier, but large shareholders requested him to stay on. This was in order to

EDEN PRAIRIE, MINNESOTA – As part of its role as the exclusive hearing health provider to Special Olympics International (Special Olympics), Starkey hosted Special Olympics leadership at its Eden Prairie headquarters from January 24 – 25, 2023 to highlight the continuation of its global partnership that was launched in March 2022. The summit focused on planning events and initiatives that increase

By Brian Taylor, AuD, Editor-at-Large As most clinicians know, there is a rich vein of research examining the relationship between cognitive function, hearing loss and the impact hearing aid use might have on it. Within just the past two months, several studies (many of them linked below) have provided us with conflicting findings and noteworthy insights on how cognitive decline

BOSTON, MASSACHUSSETTS — Decibel Therapeutics (Nasdaq: DBTX), a clinical-stage biotechnology company dedicated to discovering and developing transformative treatments to restore and improve hearing and balance, today announced authorization of its Clinical Trial Application (CTA) by the United Kingdom (U.K.) Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to initiate a Phase 1/2 clinical trial in pediatric patients of DB-OTO, its lead

In recognition of Tinnitus Awareness Week, Treble Health is bringing together experts from around the globe to shed light on this auditory condition that affects more than 700 million people around the world. The Tinnitus Relief Summit is a live, two-day symposium, hosted online, that welcomes audiologists and tinnitus experts to share emergent research and evidence-based practices for the care

HOUSTON, TEXAS — The sensory organs that allow us to walk, dance and turn our heads without dizziness or loss of balance contain specialized synapses that process signals faster than any other in the human body. In a discovery more than 15 years in the making, a small group of neuroscientists, physicists and engineers from several institutions has unlocked the mechanism

EDEN PRAIRIE, MINNESOTA – Starkey Owner and Chairman, Bill Austin, has been named a 2022 Minnesota Icon by Finance & Commerce and Minnesota Lawyer. The Minnesota Icon Awards recognize individuals with proven success throughout a lengthy and accomplished career who have left their indelible mark on Minnesota’s business community.  “Through his vast contributions to the hearing industry and the community, Bill Austin has made