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Published Jan 06, 2023
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Disruptions to the hearing health sector
A letter in 'Nature Medicine' points to technological innovation and the new OTC hearing aid regulations that are disrupting the hearing health sector, with implications for data privacy, product safety and accessibility, professional conflicts of interest, and challenges and opportunities for equitable hearing health.
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HearAdvisor Launches Audio Lab to Test and Rate OTC and Prescription Hearing Aids
HearAdvisor is an independent, objective testing lab for hearing-related devices that will introduce a new dimension of information for consumers who, until today, had to rely on marketing claims and the subjective opinions of product reviewers.
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- Kinney Drugs (52 stores in VT & NY) partners with Lucid to offer OTC hearing aids mymalonetelegram․com
- People risking their hearing health by not taking a simple test, charity says independent․co․uk
- Starkey Wins Prestigious CES 2023 Innovation Award hearingtracker․com
- How do you sell over-the-counter hearing aids when nobody knows who you are? theverge․com
- During CES 2023, JLab Will Debut Its New Hearing Health Category, Ultra-Small Earbuds apnews․com
- EUHA Publishes New Guideline on Implanted Hearing Systems hearingreview․com
- Best Rechargeable Hearing Aids for 2023 hearingtracker․com
Audio/Video
- Dr. Cliff Short Video: What Causes an Eardrum to Rupture? #whatdoyouthink #letmeknow #eardrum #rupturedeardrum youtube․com
- ASHA Voices Podcast: Highlights From a Memorable 2022 leader․pubs․asha․org
Research
- Current development of patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cells harbouring mitochondrial gene mutations and their applications in the treatment of sensorineural hearing loss sciencedirect․com
- Performance of Smartphone Automated Audiogram Image Recognition for Personalized Sound Amplification | Paywall jamanetwork․com
- Focusing on the eye signs of Alport syndrome in a 40-year-old man who previously had a kidney transplant and hearing loss thelancet․com
- Hearing Asymmetry Biases Spatial Hearing in Bimodal Cochlear-Implant Users Despite Bilateral Low-Frequency Hearing Preservation journals․sagepub․com