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Published Sep 20, 2024

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Sony CRE-C20 OTC Hearing Aid Feature Review: Is it Sony’s Answer to Airpods Pro 2 Hearing Aids?

Audiologist Matthew Allsop reviews Sony's THIRD over-the-counter hearing aid that looks a lot like the CRE-C10, but with some slick new features, including rechargeability.

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Global, regional, and national burden of hearing loss in children and adolescents, 1990-2021: A systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

The burden of hearing loss in children and adolescents has increased over the past three decades. Approximately 97.8 million people under the age of 20 years were affected by hearing loss globally in 2021 (a prevalence of 37.11 per 1000) with 62.1% being mild hearing loss.

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This Week in Hearing: ADA AuDacity 2024 Featured Keynote–Innovation Update in Hearing Care

In this video from the 2024 ADA conference, Andrew Bellavia, Steve Taddei, and David Kemp provide insights into current innovations in hearing healthcare, including the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in diagnostics, devices, and care delivery.

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Auditory areas are recruited for naturalistic visual meaning in early deaf people

In people who are deaf, the parts of the brain usually responsible for processing audition can take over visual tasks. In this new paper, researchers reveal how deaf individuals use their auditory cortex to process visual meaning.

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Hearing Matters Podcast: FDA Approval of Apple AirPods Pro 2–Dr. Keith Darrow on Competing with Prescription Hearing Aids

Drs. Darrow and Douglas Beck offer an in-depth look into the FDA-approved Apple AirPods Pro 2 as OTC hearing aids, addressing the technical differences, including latency issues, fit, battery life, costs, and more.

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Kathleen Pichora-Fuller, PhD: Editorial for the Special Supplement on “Measure to understand: Tools to assess d/Deaf and hard of hearing stigma” | Ear & Hearing

The goal of this international collaborative effort for the Lancet Commission on Hearing Loss (LCHL) is to develop measures of stigma as a necessary step toward achieving stigma-reducing changes that benefit people who are d/Deaf or hard of hearing.

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