The Audiologist Informer
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Published Nov 22, 2022
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Best Earplugs for Live Music in 2022
HearingTracker's Steve Taddei, AuD, provides a review of the top-9 earplugs, complete with sound samples and sound quality and protection ratings for products like Loop, Eargasm, and Etymotic. ('Audiology Informer' apologizes for including this in our Friday newsletter prior to it being ready for publication!)
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Sonova Halts Hearing Aid Sales to Costco; Pulls Products and Brochures
Sonova, manufacturer of Phonak and Unitron hearing aids, has discontinued the sale and promotion of its products at Costco, and also announced the Phonak brand will not be offered as an over-the-counter (OTC) hearing solution.
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- InnerScope Hearing Technologies Announces its HearingAssist Brand of OTC Hearing Aids on RiteAid.com globenewswire․com
- 3D Printing Startup to Deliver Thousands of Custom Earmolds to Middle East Over Next Five Years additivemanufacturing․media
- March 3, 2023: World Hearing Day 2023: Ear and hearing care for all! Let’s make it a reality | WHO who․int
- HearingTracker's Dr. Steve Taddei: How We Test Earplugs hearingtracker․com
- New GN product will win Veterans Affairs market shares, bank assesses | Paywall medwatch․com
- Starkey’s Evolv AI Wins Gold Globee Award in the 2022 Business Excellence Awards starkey․com
- Ear device patents for September 2022 hearinghealthmatters․org
- Disparities seen in treatment of middle ear infections in US children medicalxpress․com
Audio/Video
- SkillMapper: How to become a Hearing Instrument Specialist | Paywall skillmapper․com
- This Week in Hearing: New Medical Approaches to Treating Hearing Loss with Celia Belline & Peter Markham youtube․com
- Dr. Cliff Short Video: The Downsides of Rock Stardom! youtube․com
- Dr. Cliff: Hearing Aid Domes vs Custom Earmolds. Which one is Best? youtube․com
- Matthew Allsop Short Video: It’s Game Over for Costco & Sonova: Phonak and Unitron Permanently Discontinued youtube․com
Research
- Lancet Pre-print: Hearing Aid Use Status and All-Cause and Cause-Specific Dementia and the Roles of Mediators and Moderators: A Prospective Analysis of UK Biobank Data papers․ssrn․com
- Predicting 9-Year Language Ability from Preschool Speech Recognition in Noise in Children Using Cochlear Implants pubmed․ncbi․nlm․nih․gov
- Toward a clinically viable spectro-temporal modulation test for predicting supra-threshold speech reception in hearing-impaired listeners sciencedirect․com
- Clinical Trial: Exploration of High Frequency Otoacoustic Emissions and Developmental Language Disorders clinicaltrials․gov
- Third-party disability in cochlear implant users tandfonline․com
- Designing a Hearing Health Care Smartphone App With Ecological Momentary Assessment: A Qualitative Study of Audiologists’ Perspectives pubs․asha․org
- Neonatal bacterial meningitis: hearing screening and audiological monitoring outcomes tandfonline․com