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Published May 24, 2024

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Walmart Hearing Aids: A Full Review with Lab Ratings for Features, Performance, Prices, and Value Ratings

The HearAdvisor independent lab reviews the features, performance ratings, and prices of 24 Walmart OTC hearing aids and provides recommendations for purchase.

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10 Best Apps for People with Hearing Loss: Top Picks

Here's a Top-10 roundup of the best iOS and Android apps for people who are deaf and hard-of-hearing—so they can download their way to easier communication.

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Cochlear Ltd Acquires Oticon Medical’s Neuro Cochlear Implant Business

Cochlear has acquired Oticon Medical’s Neuro cochlear implant system from Demant for a zero headline purchase price following hurdles that prevented a deal that also included Demant’s Ponto bone-anchored hearing system (BAHS).

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AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd by looking at them just once

A University of Washington team has developed an AI headphone that lets a user look at a person speaking for 3-5 seconds to "enroll" them. It then employs "Target Speech Hearing," canceling other sounds in the environment and playing just the enrolled speaker's voice in real-time, even as the listener moves around in noise.

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Cicadas and tinnitus: Here's what you need to know

Fatima Husain of the Univ of Illinois Urbana-Champaign explains the implications of cicadas for people with tinnitus and hyperacusis.

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‎Your Brain On...Hearing Loss

How does hearing loss change the brain and contribute to cognitive decline? In this "Your Brain On..." podcast, Drs. Frank Lin, Douglas Beck, and Kristin Barry talk about hearing loss and aging, recent groundbreaking studies, and associated conditions like tinnitus.

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Researchers publish largest-ever dataset of neural connections in temporal cortex

A Harvard team created a 3D brain reconstruction that shows in vivid detail each cell and its web of connections in a piece of the brain about half the size of a rice grain located in the temporal cortex—an area that helps decode sounds.

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