Medical technology company MED-EL announced Thursday that the US Food and Drug Administration has approved expanding the use ...

Leah and Sophie Salzberg, now 5 and 3, were born with a hearing loss disorder. Cochlear implants were "a light at the end of the tunnel" for their family Wendy Grossman Kantor is an award-winning ...

An FDA study in two groups of children shows that MED-EL cochlear implants are safe and effective for children seven-71 months old with bilateral SNHL who cannot hear well enough with hearing aids.

Cochlear implants help improve hearing for individuals with profound hearing loss. Medicare covers cochlear implants for individuals who meet eligibility requirements. Cochlear implants help people ...

Ray Cathey is on a journey from silence to new sounds. Cathey's hearing took a pounding when he was an air rescue paramedic ...

People who have severe or profound hearing loss may benefit from having cochlear implants. But only a minority of older adults who could use them are being referred for them. And certain populations ...

When she’s not working as a regulatory coordinator to help launch clinical trials in the Department of Pediatrics, Oncology and Hematology Research Group at University of Utah Health, Mindy Torman ...

AUBURN-- Now that the surgery to install 10-month-old Karlee Ray's cochlear implants has been completed, her parents are eagerly awaiting the moment doctors will turn them on so their daughter can ...

Four decades have passed since cochlear implants gave infants born deaf the ability to hear. Now, gene therapy promises to ...

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Hearing loss doesn't just affect how people hear the world - it can also change how they connect with it. A new study from the USC Caruso Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, part of ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (KWWL) Hearing loss is viewed as public health issue, with some 66,000 people losing their hearing every year. Some simply wake up no longer being able to hear, for no apparent reason.