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Ear Muscles Flex to Help Focus on Sounds, Study Reveals Evolutionary Link
A study reveals that tiny ear muscles flex when people focus on specific sounds in noisy environments. Once vital for movement in ancestral species, these muscles no longer serve a major function in modern humans but may hold potential for hearing aid advancements. Researchers observed that superior auricular muscles react to difficult listening ta...
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Tackling Hearing Disability At The Right Age Is The Key; Hope For Those Battling Hearing Loss
The cochlear implant is an electronic device that stimulates the cochlear nerve, picking up sounds with a microphone, processing it, and transmitting the sound to the internal part of the implant.
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Hearing Aids to Be Sold Over the Counter in the US by October to Cut Costs: Details
The US will allow the sale of hearing aids over the counter, making the devices available to several more Americans. The new rule applies to hearing aids that work through air conduction, bringing amplified sound into the ear canal where it moves through the eardrum and the middle ear to reach the inner ear, where the processed signal is sent to th...
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Reconsider College For Hearing Impaired: High Court To Kerala Government
Request for sanctioning an aided college for hearing impaired by a charitable society in the state "cannot be allowed to fall on deaf ears", Kerala High Court said and directed the state to reconsider its decision - against setting up aided colleges.
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World Hearing Day 2019: Today's Earphone Users Could Be Tomorrow's Hearing Aid Users: Experts
As per a WHO estimate, there were 466 million persons in the world with hearing loss in 2018 and the figure is likely to increase to 630 million by 2030. Also, 1.1 billion young people are at risk due to unsafe listening practices.
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91 Year Old War Veteran Becomes Oldest Person To Get Cochlear Implants
Raymond Kelly, a 91-year old World War II veteran, became the world's oldest patient to be fitted with a cochlear implant.
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Mobile Ears Free App Aims to Help Those With a Hearing Impairment
Mobile Ears app uses a speech amplification technology that allows users to hear everything clearly despite background noise or number of people in the room.
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Toddler Hears Mother's Voice For First Time, Follows Up With Happy Dance
A mother from New Jersey has captured the heartwarming moment her child heard her voice for the time and his reaction is all kinds of wonderful.
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Panasonic unveils bone-conduction TV headphones
Instead of using your ears, the headphones work like hearing aids by transmitting sound waves through your skull.
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Hearing Aids ...and the deaf shall hear
With increasing age, quite a few people experience a decline in their ability to hear. Continued exposure to loud sounds, intake of some medicines or physical injury to the region around the ear can also cause hearing problems.
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Hearing Aids ...and the deaf shall hear
With increasing age, quite a few people experience a decline in their ability to hear. At a later stage hearing problem makes verbal communication more and more tedious leading to loss of confidence. This is where hearing aids come in. Hearing aids are to the ear what spectacles are to the eyes. Dr. Ajit Harisinghani gives the facts
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Ear Muscles Flex to Help Focus on Sounds, Study Reveals Evolutionary Link
A study reveals that tiny ear muscles flex when people focus on specific sounds in noisy environments. Once vital for movement in ancestral species, these muscles no longer serve a major function in modern humans but may hold potential for hearing aid advancements. Researchers observed that superior auricular muscles react to difficult listening ta...
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Tackling Hearing Disability At The Right Age Is The Key; Hope For Those Battling Hearing Loss
The cochlear implant is an electronic device that stimulates the cochlear nerve, picking up sounds with a microphone, processing it, and transmitting the sound to the internal part of the implant.
-
Hearing Aids to Be Sold Over the Counter in the US by October to Cut Costs: Details
The US will allow the sale of hearing aids over the counter, making the devices available to several more Americans. The new rule applies to hearing aids that work through air conduction, bringing amplified sound into the ear canal where it moves through the eardrum and the middle ear to reach the inner ear, where the processed signal is sent to th...
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Reconsider College For Hearing Impaired: High Court To Kerala Government
Request for sanctioning an aided college for hearing impaired by a charitable society in the state "cannot be allowed to fall on deaf ears", Kerala High Court said and directed the state to reconsider its decision - against setting up aided colleges.
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World Hearing Day 2019: Today's Earphone Users Could Be Tomorrow's Hearing Aid Users: Experts
As per a WHO estimate, there were 466 million persons in the world with hearing loss in 2018 and the figure is likely to increase to 630 million by 2030. Also, 1.1 billion young people are at risk due to unsafe listening practices.
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91 Year Old War Veteran Becomes Oldest Person To Get Cochlear Implants
Raymond Kelly, a 91-year old World War II veteran, became the world's oldest patient to be fitted with a cochlear implant.
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Mobile Ears Free App Aims to Help Those With a Hearing Impairment
Mobile Ears app uses a speech amplification technology that allows users to hear everything clearly despite background noise or number of people in the room.
-
Toddler Hears Mother's Voice For First Time, Follows Up With Happy Dance
A mother from New Jersey has captured the heartwarming moment her child heard her voice for the time and his reaction is all kinds of wonderful.
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Panasonic unveils bone-conduction TV headphones
Instead of using your ears, the headphones work like hearing aids by transmitting sound waves through your skull.
-
Hearing Aids ...and the deaf shall hear
With increasing age, quite a few people experience a decline in their ability to hear. Continued exposure to loud sounds, intake of some medicines or physical injury to the region around the ear can also cause hearing problems.
-
Hearing Aids ...and the deaf shall hear
With increasing age, quite a few people experience a decline in their ability to hear. At a later stage hearing problem makes verbal communication more and more tedious leading to loss of confidence. This is where hearing aids come in. Hearing aids are to the ear what spectacles are to the eyes. Dr. Ajit Harisinghani gives the facts
