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Implantable Hearing Device Can Improve Sound Quality
December 28, 2001 — A new hearing device that is implanted in your middle ear may provide better sound quality than conventional hearing aids, according to the January issue of Mayo Clinic Health Letter. ... > full story -
Brains Of Deaf People Rewire To "Hear" Music
November 28, 2001 — Deaf people sense vibration in the part of the brain that other people use for hearing – which helps explain how deaf musicians can sense music, and how deaf people can enjoy concerts and other ... > full story -
"Bionic Ear" Implanted By Penn Surgeons To Give Hearing To The Deaf: FDA-Approved Device Provides The World's Fastest Hearing Technology
August 1, 2001 — Doctors at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center’s Department of Otorhinolaryngology are now surgically implanting the recently FDA-approved “bionic ear,” bringing hearing ... > full story -
Deaf Woman Receives Two Cochlear Implants In Pioneer Study At NYU Medical Center
July 23, 2001 — NYU Medical Center surgeons will implant a multichannel cochlear implant in each ear of a deaf women as part of a pioneering study that will determine whether pitch-matching the devices allow ... > full story -
UCSF Begins Clinical Trials For New Bionic Ear For Profoundly Deaf Adults
June 11, 2001 — UCSF researchers in the Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery will begin clinical trials this month of the Clarion CII Bionic Ear cochlear implant to help adults with profound hearing ... > full story -
Cochlear Implants Found To Help Deaf-Blind Patients
January 22, 2001 — A new University of Michigan Health System study suggests that, contrary to expectations, the deaf-blind can indeed regain significant ability to recognize speech. The authors report significant ... > full story -
Deaf Children Who Get Cochlear Implants Early In Life Get The Biggest Language Boost, Concludes Largest-Ever Study
January 5, 2001 — The younger deaf and hearing-impaired children are when a cochlear implant awakens their hearing, the better they will do on speech recognition tests later in life, according to the new results of ... > full story -
Progress In Auditory Hair Cell Studies In Birds Points Way To Possible Human Hearing Improvement
October 23, 2000 — Scientists have known for years that birds' ears do something human ears cannot: when hair cells in the avian ear are destroyed, the bird goes deaf only temporarily. Now, research at the ... > full story -
UCSF Audiology Clinic Offers World's First Disposable Hearing Aids
October 5, 2000 — The University of California, San Francisco Audiology Clinic will launch new research in October to study the world's first disposable hearing aids, costing about $40 and lasting ... > full story -
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Rare Hallucinations Make Music In The Mind
August 9, 2000 — Some hear choruses singing folk songs, others hear Mozart or even the Glenn Miller Orchestra -- but there is no music; they are hallucinating. New research in the August 8 issue of Neurology, the ... > full story
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