Cochlear implants give children with profound hearing loss a much better chance to learn spoken language. However, the sounds ...

More than a million people around the world rely on cochlear implants (CIs) to hear. CI effectiveness is generally evaluated ...

Ten-month-old Amir Hayden sits on his mother’s lap inside a sound-proof booth at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals audiology clinic in Oakland, as audiologist Sarah Coulthurst, MS, takes him through a ...

A cochlear implant is an electronic device implanted in the ear's inner side to improve speech understanding. It does not restore hearing; rather, it enhances it. A cochlear implant specialist can ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (KWWL) Hearing loss is viewed as public health issue, with some 66,000 people losing their hearing every year. Some simply wake up no longer being able to hear, for no apparent reason.

Engaging the brain’s plasticity by stimulating the locus coeruleus, a region in the brainstem, could be a clinically relevant approach to optimize the efficacy of cochlear implants in restoring ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — MUSC is leading the country in a clinical trial testing a new cochlear implant. Doctors at MUSC say they are the only site on the east coast who are part of the clinical ...

FARGO — Inside audiologist Kayla McClellan's room at Sanford on Wednesday, Oct. 26, Dennis Barrett of Bemidji was getting his cochlear implant system a checkup. Barrett, 57, is an active runner, ...

But, Hearing loss is so severe, it is now viewed as public health issue, with some 66,000 people losing their hearing every year. Some simply wake up no longer being able to hear, for no apparent ...

I’M CAROL CLARK IN NEWS 4 YOUR HEALTH, A SOUTH CAROLINA HOSPITAL SYSTEM WILL BE PART OF A NEW STUDY TO HELP PEOPLE WITH PROFOUND HEARING LOSS. THE DEVICE IS A COCHLEAR IMPLANT, BUT THIS IS A NEW KIND ...

DETROIT LAKES, Minn. — Tracy Peachmann stood in front of a class looking back at her with inquisitive eyes. After one too many of those moments, she accepted her hearing impairment had become too ...