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Neuromod Founder and CEO Ross O'Neill shares the fascinating journey behind Lenire, an innovative tinnitus treatment.
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Legendary singer-songwriter Paul Simon shares his deeply personal experience with hearing loss on this Starkey Sound Bites episode with Dr. Dave Fabry.
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The authors describe the global shortage of hearing care providers, how community-based care can help providers share tasks, and a WHO resource that provides practical information for hearing aid service provision in resource-limited settings.
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A study of over 1,000 twins suggests genetic factors accounted for between 49% and 68% of the variance in hearing acuity for all frequencies at three time points. Stability of hearing acuity over time was moderately to highly attributable to genetic factors, with changes better explained by environmental factors.
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Jabra Hearing President Steve Jacobs discusses the state of OTC hearing aids, the rise of Apple Airpods Pro 2 as hearing earbuds, and how Jabra combines audiology care with accessible tech.
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Researchers in China have reportedly engineered a highly efficient and outer hair-cell-specific enhancer, B8, which successfully restored hearing in certain knockout mice.
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The Trump administration has announced the elimination of the entire branch of the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) program, which helps states coordinate newborn hearing screening and respond to infants who fail the tests.
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The VA/DoD Tinnitus Clinical Practice Guideline Work Group now recommends using therapeutic sounds, CBT, hearing aids or cochlear implants, and validated subjective outcome measures (versus psychoacoustic measures) to monitor the effectiveness of tinnitus management.
jamanetwork․comNews
- Fifth Annual Future of Hearing Healthcare Conference to Take Place May 14, 21, and 28, 2025 hearingtracker․com
- Ohio Insured Plans Now Must Cover Childhood Hearing Aids risk-strategies․com
- An innovative approach to hearing loss: John Oghalai, MD, receives R01 grant for OCT imaging of the human inner ear | Keck School of Medicine keck․usc․edu
- TruHearing and Hearing Care Solutions (HCS) Unite Under the TruHearing Brand truhearing․com
- Intelligent Audio is Changing Everything! | Synaptics GM Ivan Knez x4gwm․mjt․lu
- Analyst predicts trouble ahead for GN: Trade war could derail transformation | Paywall medwatch․com
- UK: 'National scandal' as more help needed for deaf patients bbc․com
- Amplifon Among European Climate Leaders for Financial Times and Statista corporate․amplifon․com
- AAA Opposes Ending of EHDI Program by Trump Administration audiology․org
- Getting Out of the Ear: The Evolution of ANC Technology in Hearables audioxpress․com
- Demant gained and GN lost market share with US veterans | Paywall medwatch․com
- Saudi medical team conducts 28 cochlear implant surgeries for Kenyan children premiumtimesng․com
- Tinnitus Research and Practice: 2025 Warsaw Congress Highlights hearingreview․com
- AAA: Speak Up Today–Modernize Medicare Payment Policy audiology․org
- Health warning as people ignore surprisingly common heart failure symptom the-independent․com
- Subtitling Your Life [Captioning Glasses] newyorker․com
- New Research Highlights Audiometry’s Role in Predicting Vestibular Disorders hearinghealthmatters․org
Audio/Video
- Dr. Cliff Show: Is There Hope for a Tinnitus Cure? Interview with ATA CEO Patrick Lynch youtube․com
- This Week in Hearing: OTC Hearing Glasses Hit the U.S. Market–Inside the Nuance Audio Launch youtube․com
- Dr. Cliff Vlog: Why Top Clinics Are Ditching Your Hearing Aid Insurance Benefits youtube․com
- Dr. Cliff: ReSound Smart Hearing Aid App Tutorial youtube․com
- Hearing Matters Podcast: Auracast and Accessibility–Exploring Starkey's Latest Innovations open․spotify․com
Research
- 💡Race- and sex-specific differences in the risk of incident hearing loss and associated factors nature․com
- Evidence-based practice (EBP) in action for clinicians – a new critical appraisal checklist for evaluating intervention studies | Paywall tandfonline․com
- Clinical Trial: Project PAIR: Parent-implemented Articulation Intervention With Recast (Project PAIR) | Vanderbilt Univ clinicaltrials․gov
- Clinical Trial: Performance and Effectiveness of a Self-fitting Over-the-counter Hearing Aid (Lexie) | Hearx clinicaltrials․gov
- Clinical Trial: How Parents, Children, and Clinicians Experience Digital Health Tools in Pediatric Audiology | Erasmus Medical Center clinicaltrials․gov
- The clinical and genetic spectrum of twenty-six individuals with hearing loss affected by MYO15A variants nature․com
- Health Service Use in Children With Mild Bilateral and Unilateral Hearing Loss pubmed․ncbi․nlm․nih․gov
- Hearing loss among otolaryngologist and healthcare workers: Case control study sciencedirect․com
- Cochlear Implantation Outcomes in Genotyped Subjects with Sensorineural Hearing Loss link․springer․com
- Health-related quality of life perspectives of cochlear implanted children, their hearing peers, and their parents: a prospective case-control study sciencedirect․com
- 💡Behavioral Tests for Central Auditory Processing Evaluation in the Investigation of Early Manifestations of Cognitive Decline and Dementias: A Scoping Review pubs․asha․org
- Research trends and hotspots of cognitive behavioral therapy for tinnitus: a bibliometric analysis frontiersin․org
- Hearing loss and its relation to cognition in Indian cohort: A behavioral and neuroimaging study pubmed․ncbi․nlm․nih․gov
- Education on loss to follow-up after newborn hearing screening in Thailand: a randomised controlled trial tandfonline․com
- 💡Auditory and cognitive abilities in patients with chronic kidney disease: a comparative study across stages pubmed․ncbi․nlm․nih․gov
- On the Difficulty of Defining Duration of Deafness for Adults With Cochlear Implants pubmed․ncbi․nlm․nih․gov
- Auditory Perception Outcomes in Children with Deafness and Additional Disabilities 12 Months After Cochlear Implant Activation mdpi․com
- Evaluation of reading, cognitive and auditory processing skills of university educated cochlear implant users sciencedirect․com
- Pulse timing dominates binaural hearing with cochlear implants pnas․org
- Peripheral and Central Auditory Dysfunction Induced by Intermittent Hypoxia via a Novel Recurrent Airway Obstruction Device in Rats sciencedirect․com