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Published Jun 02, 2023

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Learn about Ally's Act: Access to Bone Anchored Hearing Systems (BAHS) & Cochlear Implant

Ally's Act (HR 2439 and S 1135) is a bipartisan/bicameral federal bill reintroduced on March 30th, 2023 ensuring coverage of bone-anchored hearing systems (BAHS) and cochlear implant systems (CI) for children and adults from birth to age 64⁣. This video explains how you can help support the bill.

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Amplifon announces signing of €300 million sustainability-linked revolving credit facility

Amplifon has announced the signing of a new sustainability-linked revolving credit facility with a pool of banks for a total amount of 300 MM euros (US$323 MM).

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Bruce Willis’s daughter says family ascribed his dementia to ‘Hollywood hearing loss’

As an adolescent, Bruce Willis' daughter Tallulah thought her father’s unresponsiveness was due to a lack of interest in her life—and hearing loss incurred on the set of 'Die Hard'.

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Directed Attention and Habituation: Two Concepts Critical to Tinnitus Management

Directed attention is a treatment strategy of distracting attention away from the tinnitus; habituation is a treatment goal to stop paying attention to stimuli that are irrelevant or meaningless. In this tutorial, one of the world's leading tinnitus researchers, James Henry, PhD, describes the four major tinnitus intervention methods and shows how each attempt to accomplish distraction in the short term and habituation in the long term.

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