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Anna LaCroix, our Bright Light
Anna LaCroix has had two operations for a cochlear implant
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There were some perks to dating a cyborg. My ex-boyfriend Josh was born mostly deaf, but had some hearing in one ear thanks to a cochlear implant—a spiral of electrodes threaded into his cochlea to stimulate the auditory nerve, bypassing damaged parts of the ear. The surgery, which is irreversible, wipes out any residual hearing in the operated ear. (It's a major invasive procedure—fortunately a one-time thing—that puts the patient at risk of...
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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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From socaltech.com
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A multidisciplinary group at Malaga University, headed by Ignacio Moreno-Torres, is collecting information on the milestones that mark the development of deaf children fitted with a Cochlear Implant (CI) and studying to what extent the social and family environment affects this development. This research is funded with 101,000 euro by the Andalusian Regional Ministry of Innovation.
From medicalnewstoday.com
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- SoundBite, a Cochlear Hearing Aid Without The Implant (medgadget.com)
- Today's Hot News - Advanced Bionics Bought (z.about.com)
- Got Good Speech? No CI for You. (z.about.com)
In 50 years ask her if any possible complications were worth hearing her parents voices, laughter, the sound of rain on the roof, music of all kinds, the wind rattling through the trees, water over rocks, crickets in the summer or the any of the other thousands of sounds those of us who can hear take for granted.My guess is she'll say it was worth it.
From denverpost.com
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- Toddlers get cochlear implants, face a strange new world (denverpost.com)
Apparently, the state of Wyoming's Equality Care program believes that only zombies qualify to receive cochlear implants. Why do I say this? Today CD posted a follow-up to her earlier blog post about being denied for a cochlear implant. In this follow-up, CD posted a response from Wyoming Equality Care. A quoted segment: "the client must be unable to communicate through speech or other means to make their medical or basic needs known."
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From z.about.com
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