Medical technology company MED-EL announced Thursday that the US Food and Drug Administration has approved expanding the use ...

For the hearing-impaired, cochlear implants can be absolutely life-changing. But few of us actually know what it sounds like to slip on one of those tiny wearable devices and hear words, voices and ...

A patient's age upon receiving a cochlear implant can influence the technology's effectiveness. Cavan Images/Cavan via Getty Images Cochlear implants are among the most successful neural prostheses on ...

An FDA study in two groups of children shows that MED-EL cochlear implants are safe and effective for children seven-71 months old with bilateral SNHL who cannot hear well enough with hearing aids.

UC Irvine’s Fan-Gang Zeng, inventor of the Nurotron cochlear ear implant, pulls out a giant ear replica and points to the snail-like, bony tubular structure in the inner ear. That’s the cochlea, which ...

Approval also includes extending the Nucleus 7 Sound Processor to the first U.S. cochlear implant recipients, Custom Sound Pro fitting software to enhance support for hearing professionals LONE TREE, ...

When the parts of the ear that transmit sound to the auditory nerve are damaged—as they often are in the severely deaf—a hearing aid that merely amplifies sound offers little assistance. Today, more ...

MED-EL’s cochlear implants are now FDA-approved in children seven months and older with bilateral sensorineural hearing loss ...

Ray Cathey is on a journey from silence to new sounds. Cathey's hearing took a pounding when he was an air rescue paramedic ...

Australian medical device company Cochlear has announced the launch of its Made for iPhone cochlear implant sound processor, providing implant recipients with direct connectivity to their iOS devices.

Families with children who have severe or profound hearing loss attended the 4th Annual "Joy of Sound" event at Rady Children's Hospital on Saturday. The celebration of sound included music by local ...

LONE TREE, Colo., July 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Cochlear Limited (ASX:COH), the global leader in implantable hearing solutions, today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of ...