This Week in Hearing

This week, host Dave Kemp is joined by Nick Morgan-Jones and Gray Dawdy of Decibels. Nick says that he has needed hearing aids since the age of 10, but was turned off by the stigma associated with traditional hearing aids. In 2021, Nick started Decibels (originally Butterfly Audio) and video blogged his journey along the way. Working with his friend

This week, host Dave Kemp is joined by Jodi Sasaki-Miraglia, AuD, Director of Education & Training-West Region for Widex USA. The pair discuss the benefits of adding tinnitus evaluation and management into a clinical practice, as well as background on the solutions currently offered by Widex, a major hearing aid manufacturer that has offered tinnitus solutions in its products for

Young children are prone to middle ear infections. New technology is empowering front-line professionals to increase their sensitivity in identifying fluid in the middle ear. PhotoniCare has developed a novel, non-invasive, low-cost imaging instrument called the OtoSight Middle Ear Scope. In this episode of This Week in Hearing, Jeff Hydar, Chief Commercial Officer at PhotoniCare, and Dr. Seth Pransky, a

Who would have ever thought the human brain would be compared to Mr Potato Head? With its phenomenal capacity to change and re-wire itself at any age, our guest this week, the incomparable neuroscientist, David Eagleman, does just that. In this episode, Eagleman sits down with Brian Taylor to talk about sensory substitution, sensory enhancement and Eagleman’s company, Neosensory, which

The manner in which hearing care is delivered is changing. At the forefront of this change is Tuned, an online virtual platform that empowers both the provider and the patient to strive towards improved hearing health. In this week’s episode, host Amyn Amlani chats with Tuned’s Danny Aronson, Co-Founder and CEO, and Heather Malyuk, Head of Audiology, about the free

The ability of human cochlear hair cells to regenerate has been nothing more than a pipe dream – until recently. Frequency Therapeutics, a publicly traded (NASDAQ) company based in Lexington, Massachusetts, has published a series of clinical trials showing early promise that a pharmacologic agent, FX-322, regenerates human hair cells in the cochlea. During this interview with Brian Taylor, Frequency’s

This Week in Hearing co-host, Bob Traynor, is joined by special guest, Dr. Gus Mueller, to celebrate 50 years since his first hearing aid fitting as an audiologist in the US Army stationed at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C. The pair reflect on how the methods and techniques used to fit hearing aids 50 years ago have changed and

This week, host Dave Kemp is joined by Giles Tongue, CEO of Chatable, and Karl Strom, Editor-In-Chief of The Hearing Review, to discuss their recent experience at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, where a number of audio and hearing-related technologies were on display. They discuss the implications of the latest trends and key takeaways for the hearing

Nearly four out of 10 people Americans will suffer from vertigo at some point in their lives. The sensation that vertigo causes – that you or your environment are moving or spinning can be debilitating and disrupt everyday life – causing people to suffer from dangerous falls, hearing loss, excruciating migraines, and miss work and personal activities. In a breakthrough

Recent research conducted by this week’s guest, Diana Emanuel, PhD of Towson University, suggests that an astounding 60% of audiologists find their way into the profession via the “undergraduate-stumble pathway.” That is, they find audiology through a circuitous route during their first few years of college, typically changing from speech pathology to audiology. Professor Emanuel discusses how this in-direct career