Hearing and Deafness
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Anna LaCroix has had two operations for a cochlear implant
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Today's hot news is that the cochlear implant manufacturer Advanced Bionics has been bought by a hearing aid manufacturer, Sonova. Abledbody.com notes that Sonova bought Advanced Bionics because the market is estimated to be as much as $800 million. I'm not surprised a hearing aid manufacturer is buying a cochlear implant manufacturer. As cochlear implants grow in popularity and people with less severe hearing losses are able to get them, it...
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- Sonova pays cash for implant maker (shanghaidaily.com)
- A Study Shows That The Cochlear Implant Reduces The Delay Suffered By Deaf... (medicalnewstoday.com)
- SoundBite, a Cochlear Hearing Aid Without The Implant (medgadget.com)
Valencia-based Advanced Bionics, a manufacturer of cochlear implants, said Monday that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with Sonova Holdings AG. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. According to Advanced Bionics, the deal helps Sonova Group strategically expand into the area of cochlear implants.Advanced Bionics was advised by UBS Investment Bank and O'Melveny & Myers in the deal.
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A gene that causes deafness in the elderly has been identified by scientists. The findings will help doctors better understand the nature of age-related decline in hearing and may lead to new therapies to prevent or treat the condition. The gene is a
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- Diagnosis of Deafness and use of Cued Speech (voicesweb.org)
- ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Bilateral Cochlear Implantation in Children With Anomalous... (archotol.ama-assn.org)
- Speech experience shapes the speechreading network and subsequent deafness... (brain.oxfordjournals.org)
Touch-screen interfaces have already usurped traditional buttons on a range of mobile devices that boast a larger screen size and/or smaller form factor by doing away with a wide range of buttons or dedicated keypad. Now buttons of all sorts on all sorts of devices are under assault. Just last week Apple declared war on mouse buttons, and now hearing technology company, Starkey Laboratories, has taken aim at fiddly hearing aid buttons with its...
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- Families seek coverage for hearing aids (news.google.com)
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