Hearing News Watch

STAFA, SWITZERLAND — Phonak today announces that Oliver Frank will be taking up the position as Vice President Phonak Marketing effective December 1, 2022. Oliver Frank brings more than 15 years of industry experience from various local and global leadership roles within Sonova’s Hearing Instrument business. He comes with a broad range of functional expertise including roles with increasing responsibility in

EDEN PRAIRIE, MINNESOTA – Starkey is committed to operational and manufacturing excellence in order to continue “to serve its customers and countless patients around the world better than anyone else”. As part of that commitment, Starkey has named three veteran industry leaders to key leadership positions within Operations. “Starkey is dedicated to providing the best customer service in the industry,

DEKALB, ILLINOIS — Lexie Hearing announces the launch of the Lexie B2 Hearing Aids, Powered by Bose, adding a third hearing aid model to its suite of hearing aid products that will be available online and on shelves nationwide on October 17. The new device is the second developed in partnership with Bose. The two companies teamed up this summer

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The American Tinnitus Association recently announced that it has awarded its first “Kent Taylor Texas Roadhouse Tinnitus Research Grant” to Julia Campbell, Au.D., Ph.D., assistant professor for the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Campbell and her team will apply the $120,000 grant to investigate auditory gating and its

DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA– MED-EL, a global leader in implantable hearing solutions, has been passionate about connecting people with hearing loss to the magic of music since pioneering the cochlear implant in 1977. This year, between October 6-8, MED-EL will bring music alive at their Sound Sensation Festival. Singers and musicians from around the world who are deaf and hard of

WAKEFIELD, MASS. & COLUMBUS, OH –Myrtelle Inc., a clinical stage gene therapy company focused on developing transformative treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, and Forge Biologics, a gene therapy-focused contract development and manufacturing organization, have announced a manufacturing partnership that will advance Myrtelle’s novel gene therapy for monogenic hearing loss, Myr-201, into clinical trials for patients with autosomal recessive deafness 8 (DFNB8).

PISCATAWAY, NEW JERSEY – Signia today announced it will join a Rally Days event with the iconic Dallas Cowboys football team on October 22 to coincide with National Audiology Awareness Month. Signia’s participation at the event will support each organization’s shared priority of promoting total health, wellness and physical excellence. Rally Days presented by SeatGeek are an integral and interactive

GLENVIEW, ILLINOIS – Beltone, named America’s #1 Hearing Care Retailer & Best in Customer Service by Newsweek, is raising awareness around noise-induced hearing loss in observance of National Protect Your Hearing Month. During a virtual media tour that took place today and will be aired on various local news stations nationwide throughout the month of October, Dr. Kathy McGowan, AuD CCC-A,

PALM BEACH GARDENS, FLORIDA — HearUSA, a business in the WS Audiology Group (WSA), today introduced a bold new HearUSA brand. The new brand unites 1,000 team members, 360 hearing centers, and 28 brands to introduce hearing care professionals (HCPs) and the 48-million people living with hearing loss to the ‘Sound of the New Age’ of hearing possibilities.   The new

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA — Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine are developing new ways to study why an antibiotic causes hair cell death and permanent hearing loss in people. In a study recently published in Developmental Cell, the researchers explained how they identified the autophagy pathway in hair cells that’s linked to permanent hearing loss brought about by aminoglycosides—a class of