Last year was particularly eventful for the Haas family of Chicago. In addition to the ups and downs of everyday life with two kids, Declan, 3, and Bennett, 8 months, both boys underwent cochlear ...

Federal epidemiologists have estimated that hearing loss affects about 1 in 5 people ages 65 to 74 and more than half of ...

Two Chattanooga practices that offer hearing healthcare services, Johnson Audiology and Associates in ENT, have teamed up to give citizens in the greater Chattanooga area a complete continuum of care ...

1) What is a cochlear implant? A cochlear implant is a small, surgically implanted electronic device that provides a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard of hearing. It ...

The use of cochlear implants to treat children and adults with severe sensorineural hearing loss has made "incredible progress" over recent years, according to Christopher Bohr, MD, PhD, director of ...

Adult hearing loss is undertreated, but cochlear implant technology through programs like one at Northwestern University is ...

An international group of hearing specialists has released a new set of recommendations emphasizing that cochlear implants should be offered to adults who have moderate to severe or worse hearing loss ...

A team of Moroccan surgeons has joined KNH specialists in Nairobi for a week-long medical mission to perform cochlear implant surgeries on 50 children with hearing loss.

A team of surgeons from Morocco is in Kenya to perform cochlear implant surgeries on more than 50 children with severe hearing impairments. The doctors are collaborating with Ear, Nose, and Throat ...

Cochlear implantation is an established surgical procedure that has transformed the rehabilitation of individuals with profound hearing loss. The technique involves the placement of an electronic ...

When she’s not working as a regulatory coordinator to help launch clinical trials in the Department of Pediatrics, Oncology and Hematology Research Group at University of Utah Health, Mindy Torman ...

After nearly two years of silence, a 3-year-old Iraqi boy reentered the world of sound on Tuesday when the cochlear implant he’d received at UCSF was activated. Mustafa Ghazwan, who had lost his ...