Archive for the 'CIRead' Category

Music returningto patient’s life (The News & Observer)

Duke audiologist Molly Justus looked like a recording studio engineer as she adjusted a 16-band equalizer designed to improve the performance of Joan Ernst's cochlear implant, a high-tech hearing device inside her ear.

The Online Information Source for the Medical Device Industry (Medical Device Link)

Some of the devices nominated by our readers are small enough to travel through a blood vessel. Some are so large they fill an entire room. Some cost thousands of dollars but will stay in the body for 10 years, and some cost pennies and are designed to be thrown away after one use.

Health Briefs (The Leader Times)

Lindsay L. Fichthorn, daughter of Cynthia Temsik of Kittanning, and Joe Fichthorn of Manorville, has accepted a position at the Depaul School for Hearing and Speech in Pittsburgh as her fourth year audiology residency.

Meet the new gym rats (Bluffton Today)

Meet the new gym rats By Tim Wood Six months ago, Garrett Johnson had never heard of a fitness center. The 19-year-old is one of the quieter members of Vicki Malone’s special education class at Bluffton High School. But every Thursday afternoon, he comes out of his shell a little bit more with every stride on the treadmill.

Divots Tri-State Juniors opener set for June 22 (The Herald-Mail)

The Tri-State Junior Golf Association will conduct tournaments at five area golf clubs this summer. The season begins on June 22 at Waynesboro Country Club, as golfers will compete in the 12-13, 14-15 and 16-18 age divisions.

Fine Tuning for Hearing Impaired (HealthCentral)

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- More than 36 million Americans suffer from hearing loss. Only heart disease and diabetes impact more people. Traditionally, hearing implants and other devices were one-size-fits-all.

Sounds exciting to Honduran boy with donated cochlear implant (Stuart News)

Luis Fernando Betancourth Aguirre, 8, began to show for the first time he was discerning individual sounds from the jumble of noise that bombarded him since the implant was installed in his left ear, recalled Melanie Gallagher, who cares for Luis in her family home.

Op-Ed: Bid to include deaf Jews must be heard (JTA)

NEW YORK (JTA) -- "Hear O Israel, The Lord Is our God. The Lord Is One," it proclaims in Deuteronomy 6:4. When considered objectively, that unifying, eternal clarion call of the Jewish People can appear to be exclusionary among the Jewish people it stands to unite.

US bionic ear hopes give lift to Cochlear stock (The Age)

Shares Cochlear rose nearly 2 per cent on growing speculation that the company will soon win US Food and Drug Administration approval for its new implant and processor.

Watpac wins Cochlear contract (The Australian)

KEVIN Seymour's Watpac has won an $80 million contract to build a global headquarters and manufacturing facility for hearing implant company Cochlear at Sydney's Macquarie University, North Ryde.