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Whisper AI says it has decided to "complete a voluntary market withdrawal of the Whisper Hearing System as our business direction changes." Launched for the professional dispensing market in 2020, Whisper AI was unique for its separate "Whisper Brain" processing unit. As the company's staff is made up of some extremely impressive individuals, the news is yet another example of how difficult it is to succeed in the hearing healthcare market.
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New product announcements at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) are widely expected to include the company's latest revolutionary device: Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality headsets. However, these new devices reportedly warn against using them for people with ear-related problems like Ménière's disease, migraines, and vertigo.
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Thousands of babies born with hearing problems in the U.K. may have been misdiagnosed and denied vital support because of errors, reports an article in 'The Times.' (Also see the BAA's response and commentary in News.)
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- American Tinnitus Association elects Wayne State's Jinsheng Zhang, PhD, as new chair newswise․com
- NuHeara initiates trading halt pending announcement [PDF] company-announcements․afr․com
- Adaptive algorithms and intuitive methods for adjusting personal sound | Fraunhofer idw-online․de
- BAA Statement in response to the Sunday Times article about Paediatric Audiology | British Academy of Audiology baaudiology․org
- CTA Study: Earbuds and headphones in the top-5 most-owned consumer technology products prnewswire․com
- Luxury is Often Defined by the Gadgets You Wear [Including Hearing Aids!] – Here's How luxurytravelmagazine․com
Audio/Video
- This Week in Hearing: The Future of Audiometry–Going Beyond the Sound Booth with Renée Lefrançois of SHOEBOX youtube․com
- Dr. Cliff Short Video: Your Audiologist DOESN’T Want You to Watch this Video youtube․com
- Dr. Cliff Vlog: International Speaking Trip to Australia youtube․com
Research
- The relevance of ototoxicity induced by radiotherapy ro-journal․biomedcentral․com
- Bidirectional Relationship between Depression and Tinnitus–Related Distress: A Retrospective Two–Center Cohort Study papers․ssrn․com
- Predicting the presence of tinnitus using ecological momentary assessments nature․com
- Current Therapeutic Trends for Tinnitus Cure and Control: A Scoping Review link․springer․com
- Listening Effort in Quiet and Noisy Environments in the Daily Life of Adults With Hearing Aids: An Extended Version of the Effort Assessment Scale (EEAS) journals․sagepub․com
- Hearing Aids Combined With Educational Counseling Versus Educational Counseling Alone for Tinnitus Treatment in Patients With Hearing Loss: A Longitudinal Follow-Up Study pubs․asha․org
- Vestibular test results in patients with vestibular migraine and Meniere’s Disease tandfonline․com
- Rethinking the clinical utility of distortion-product otoacoustic emission (DPOAE) signal-to-noise ratio tandfonline․com
- A comparison of psychosocial health among individuals with different levels of hearing ability during the COVID-19 pandemic tandfonline․com
- Clinical and sociodemographic predictors of hearing aid use in infants aged 0-2 with permanent childhood hearing loss: A retrospective cohort single-site pilot study medrxiv․org