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Published Apr 27, 2022
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Cochlear Agrees to Acquire Oticon Medical
Cochlear Limited agreed to acquire Oticon Medical for DKK850 million (approx. $120M) following Demant’s decision to exit its hearing implants business activities. As part of the transaction, Cochlear has committed to providing ongoing support for Oticon Medical’s base of more than 75,000 hearing implant recipients, which includes cochlear and acoustic implants.
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DSL Team Awarded Canada's Prestigious Governor General’s Innovation Award
Led by Dr. Susan Scollie, the team of researchers at National Centre for Audiology at Western University are receiving a Governor General’s Innovation Award for developing the world’s first pediatric hearing aid prescription software.
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- Maine may soon require test for cytomegalovirus, a virus that causes hearing loss in babies newscentermaine․com
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Research
- Development of Physical Activity Features for Ear-worn Devices clinicaltrials․gov
- Lyric Self-replacement Clinical Investigation clinicaltrials․gov
- Measuring and Modeling Cue Dependent Spatial Release from Masking in the Presence of Typical Delays in the Treatment of Hearing Loss journals․sagepub․com
- Revisiting the target-masker linguistic similarity hypothesis link․springer․com
- Identification and Comprehension of Narrow Focus by Arabic-Speaking Adolescents With Moderate-to-Profound Hearing Loss pubs․asha․org
- Intraoperative Auditory Brainstem Response Measurements via the Vibrant Soundbridge Active Middle Ear Implant: Comparison of Two Methods pubs․asha․org
- Cervical and ocular vestibular evoked myogenic potential: A comparison of narrowband chirp, broadband chirp, tone burst and click stimulation tandfonline․com
- Hearing Impairment in the Extended High Frequencies in Children Despite Clinically Normal Hearing journals․lww․com
- Pragmatic Uncontrolled Study of Specialized Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Adults With Chronic Tinnitus journals․lww․com
- Preterm infants voice processing is mediated by voice familiarity biorxiv․org