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UrduStudent combines her fascination with technology and research to uncover whether hearing aids that use Bluetooth technology can be hacked.
Tag: Hearing Aid
Turning Hearing Aids into Noise-Canceling Devices #ASA182
For someone using an assistive listening device in a crowded place, it might make little difference whether the device is on or off. Nearby conversation directed at the user might be drowned out by distant conversation between other people, ambient noise from the environment, or music or speech piped through a loudspeaker system.
Corey and his colleagues worked to eliminate at least one source of noise, the one emanating from loudspeakers or other broadcast systems.
Most older adults haven’t gotten checked for hearing loss, with women less likely than men to be screened or tested
Eighty percent of Americans over 50 say their primary care doctor hasn’t asked about their hearing in the past two years, and nearly as many haven’t had their hearing checked by a professional in that same time, according to a new national poll report.
Woman Regains Hearing in Left Ear After 50 Years Thanks to Innovative Implant
DETROIT (December 23, 2020) – This holiday season, Angela Holland will enjoy the gift of hearing from her left ear again. After 50 years of single-sided deafness caused by a disease known as cholesteatoma, new hearing technology implanted by Henry Ford Health System surgeon Kristen Angster, M.D. will allow Holland to ring in the season and truly enjoy the sounds of the holidays.
Mass Eye and Ear Experts Urge Food and Drug Administration to Allow Over-The-Counter Hearing Aid Devices
Hearing experts advocate in The New England Journal of Medicine for the FDA to implement the Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Act of 2017. The FDA missed the deadline to release the much-anticipated regulations on August 18, 2020
Ultra-Low-Cost Hearing Aid Could Address Age-Related Hearing Loss Worldwide
Using a device that could be built with a dollar’s worth of open-source parts and a 3D-printed case, researchers want to help the hundreds of millions of older people worldwide who can’t afford existing hearing aids to address their age-related hearing loss.