Ten-month-old Amir Hayden sits on his mother’s lap inside a sound-proof booth at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals audiology clinic in Oakland, as audiologist Sarah Coulthurst, MS, takes him through a ...

Cochlear implant users who need help with their devices have a new way to get it, even — or perhaps especially — if they’re ...

A cochlear implant is an electronic device used for people who are severely hard of hearing or deaf. They require surgery to ...

But, Hearing loss is so severe, it is now 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 ...

11-year-old DuJuan Broadus is the first U.S. patient to receive a MED-EL FLEX34 cochlear implant, designed for those with a larger cochlea. The new implant allows for a wider range of frequencies, ...

NEWTON - Nelda Balding likes the fact that at age 74, she was the second U.S. Citizen (by one week) to have a research device surgically implanted into her inner ear. Only 10 other people in the ...

What Is a Cochlear Implant? A cochlear implant is a small, complex electronic device that can help to provide a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard of hearing. The ...

The Sound Barrier is a four-episode series where we explore the limits of hearing and the ways we can break through.

Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh says he can hear again. In October, the Cape Girardeau native surprised everyone when he announced he was deaf. Now, after having a cochlear implant in his left ear, ...

Walter Vidal Contreras Robles sat excitedly in the small waiting room of UNLV’s otolaryngology clinic with a bright smile on his face the morning of May 30. It was his 37th birthday, and instead of ...

Hearing loss among older adults remains vastly undertreated. Federal epidemiologists have estimated that it affects about one in five people ages 65 to 74 and more than half of those over 75.

VALENCIA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Advanced Bionics (AB), a global leader in cochlear implant technology, in collaboration with Phonak, a leading provider of life-changing hearing solutions, receives ...