Just like a fingerprint, each person's hearing is unique. Yet, the most commonly worn hearing aids use a standardized approach modeled on an "average ear," which can often compromise sound quality. The new ReSound ONE from GN Hearing provides an individualized and unique solution. With its additional microphone inside the ear canal, ReSound ONE enables people relying on hearing aids to experience the world with their own ears while preserving the comfort of an open-fit device. Now every user can...
Wed Aug 19, 2020 13:47
Opioid use, particularly in high doses, can cause deafness, according to Rutgers researchers.The study, published in The Journal of Medical Toxicology, reviewed records from the New Jersey Poison Control Center, based at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, from 1999 to 2018 to determine the association between opioid use and degrees of hearing loss.Researchers identified 41 people with opioid exposure who experienced full or partial hearing loss or tinnitus, likely caused by toxicity to the ear. More...
Wed Aug 19, 2020 13:17
By Michelle BukowskiA team of Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers has received a $3.1 million NIH grant to develop advanced patient-specific cochlear implant stimulation models for customized implant programming.Traditional cochlear implant programming is done by expert audiologists using a guess-and-check approach based on subjective patient feedback regarding sound quality as well as changes in speech recognition rates. This research aims to develop computational...
Wed Aug 19, 2020 13:01
The American Cochlear Implant Alliance (ACI Alliance) was awarded a grant by Oberkotter Foundation to update the seminal Project HOPE study published in 2000 by Mohr et al. This work has been a central component of public policy discussions on pediatric deafness for two decades. ACI Alliance Board of Directors Chair Meredith Holcomb AuD notes “We recognized the need to update the earlier work and evaluate the effect of much earlier access to cochlear implants and new models of language learning that...
Tue Aug 18, 2020 14:01
Publication date: Available online 18 August 2020Source: Hearing ResearchAuthor(s): Wiebke Konerding, Julie Arenberg, Andrej Kral, Peter Baumhoff
Wed Aug 19, 2020 14:46
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