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Reston, VA – January 12, 2012 - The American Board of Audiology® is pleased to announce the 13 audiologists who recently earned the Pediatric Audiology Specialty…

Rockville, MD – January 03, 2012 - Shelly Chabon, PhD, CCC-SLP is the new president of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).Dr. Chabon, who took office…

Los Angeles – January 9, 2012 - As part of its 2012 NAMM Winter Show activities, the House Research Institute (HRI) [NAMM booth 1292, Hall E] will host special guest…

Washington, DC, January 09, 2012 a?? People with heart disease should get their hearing checked because of the link between cardiovascular and hearing health, according…

Minneapolis, Jan. 12, 2012 - Starkey Hearing Technologies, a global leader in hearing healthcare, is excited to announce that its first-ever Hearing Innovation Expo…

Usher syndrome, an inherited, recessive disorder that causes deafness and blindness (“deaf-blindness”) as well as balance problems, can result from a mutant copy of any one of…

Providing clues to deafness, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a gene that is required for proper development of the mouse inner ear…

Baby Boomers, International Growth and a Changing Marketplace Behind Name Change of 45-Year-Old Organization Minneapolis, Jan. 10, 2011…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Babies who do not pass newborn hearing screening tests require immediate diagnosis and intervention, but that can be a challenge for families living in…

Hearinghealthmatters.org “Hear Well, Live Well”C. Scot Frink, who was recently selected by Rayovac as the 2011 Hearing Professional of the Year in…

A diagnosis of otorrhea (ear discharge and drainage) due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus(MRSA) following ear tube placement in children does not…

Chicago – Overall, the rate of reimplantation of cochlear implants due to device failure appears to be low among children who were treated at a pediatric…

HLAA, along with some 360 participants from 30 different countries attended the M-Enabling Summit, 2011.  The Summit was billed as a “global summit and showcase for…

LiveTV is proud to announce that, for the first time in the history of inflight entertainment, closed captioning is now available for live television content onboard an aircraft….

Although teen hearing loss is common, poll shows most parents haven’t discussed it with their teensNational data demonstrate that 1 in 6 U.S. adolescents has…

Experiments Find Functioning Changed by Noise in Previously Undetected WaysNov. 14, 2011 – UT Dallas neuroscientists are examining whether…

NAERUM, DK   December 5 –   A new counseling tool from Ida Institute may enable clinicians to more effectively elicit the child’s…

Bethesda, Maryland (December 13, 2011) – Aesculapius Awards of Excellence were announced today by Dr. Peter G. Goldschmidt, President and Founder of the Health…

New nationally representative estimate shows wide scope of problemNearly a fifth of all Americans 12 years or older have hearing loss so severe that it may…

Majority of respondents don’t believe their hearing problems warrant treatmentWashington, DC – December 01, 2011- Hearing health plays…