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Published Mar 02, 2022
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Consumer Reports: Best and Worst Hearing Aid Brands and Retailers
Consumer Reports (CR) recently surveyed 26,788 CR members about hearing aids. Results: Costco blew away the competition on value and overall satisfaction. CR stated that value is "strongest predictor of members’ overall satisfaction with their hearing aids". Costco’s Kirkland brand and Oticon did well on "sound clarity" ratings, and all brands "received average scores for use when talking in small groups" and "low marks when used for one-on-one conversations in noisy places, and in loud social settings generally."
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- eMoyo, maker of the Kuduwave, has launched in the U.S. linkedin․com
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- GN suspends all trading with Russia medwatch․com
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Audio/Video
- New Wearable Technology to Treat Vertigo: Interview with Otolith Labs' Sam Owen and Didier Depireux hearinghealthmatters․org
Research
- Activation of Rictor/mTORC2 signaling acts as a pivotal strategy to protect against sensorineural hearing loss pnas․org
- The impact of hearing impairment and hearing aid use on progression to mild cognitive impairment in cognitively healthy adults: An observational cohort study pubmed․ncbi․nlm․nih․gov
- Quantifying traffic noise pollution levels: a cross-sectional survey in South Africa nature․com
- Hearing loss and dementia, vestibular neuronitis, salivary carcinoma, and the history of tympanic membrane anatomy cambridge․org
- Transcanal endoscopic ear surgery for management of ossicular malformation: clinical outcomes of 17 cases tandfonline․com
- Efficacy of Oral Steroids for Acute Acoustic Trauma karger․com
- A model of speech recognition for hearing-impaired listeners based on deep learning asa․scitation․org