People with a common form of hearing loss not helped by hearing aids achieved significant and sometimes profound improvements in their hearing and understanding of speech with hybrid cochlear implant devices, according to ...
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Dear Mayo Clinic: I'm 72 and have worn hearing aids for about a decade. Over the past several years, my hearing seems to be getting worse. Although I've tried several different kinds of hearing aids, I can't hear well with ...
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Usher syndrome is the most common form of combined congenital deaf-blindness in humans and affects 1 in 6,000 of the population. It is a recessive inherited disease that is both clinically and genetically heterogeneous. In ...
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Enhancing hearing appears to improve balance in older adults with hearing loss, according to new research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Patients with hearing aids in both ears performed better ...
Dec 12, 2014
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New research is hoping to understand how the human brain hears sound to help develop improved hearing aids and automatic speech recognition systems.
Jan 17, 2012
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Beethoven composed some of his most famous works after he became profoundly deaf.
May 19, 2015
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Up to a third of older adults with hearing loss in England could be undetected and untreated , according to a new study by University of Manchester researchers.
Aug 28, 2020
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Hearing loss affects approximately 40 million American adults, yet only one in 10 people who need hearing aids use them, research shows.
Jan 3, 2024
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I'm 70 years old and have worn hearing aids for about a decade. Over the past several years, my hearing seems to be getting worse. Although I have tried several different kinds of hearing aids, I feel as if they are not effective ...
Sep 23, 2022
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Hearing aids are essential for people with hearing loss. But hearing aids have an Achilles heel: their power supply is expensive and environmentally unfriendly.
Jun 7, 2022
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