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New cochlear implant offers all round hearing to deaf at half the cost

A deaf women has become the first in the country to be given "stereo" hearing from just one cochlear implant.

Bilateral cochlear implant is a UK first

The UK's first operation to fit a single cochlear implant to radically improve the hearing of a severely deaf woman took place today.

Hearing op is a UK first

IT will help her hear properly for the first time in her life.

Deaf woman hears again with implant

A woman becomes the first person in the UK to have an implant capable of giving sound in both ears fitted.

Parents of a deaf student plan to sue SAU 16 for not providing an adequate education

STRATHAM — Beth Petit made a desperate plea to the Cooperative School Board Tuesday night.

• Simulation helps relate to kids with disabilities

By Mark Wineka mwineka@salisburypost.com It was a Walmart meltdown. With her 3-year-old son, Kevin, in tow, Kim Roe went to the big-box store one day to have a prescription filled. In her shopping buggy, Kevin began rocking â an outward sign that ...

Southampton To Conduct UK’s First Cochlear Implant Operation To Give Sound In Both Ears

The UK's first operation to fit a single cochlear implant capable of giving sound in both ears takes place this Friday, thanks to the work of the South of England Cochlear Implant Centre, based at the University of SouthamptonThe UK's first operation to fit a single cochlear implant capable of giving sound in both ears takes place this Friday (27 August), thanks to the work of the South of ...

UK’s first cochlear implant operation to give sound in both ears

The UK's first operation to fit a single cochlear implant capable of giving sound in both ears takes place on August 27.

Tracking the signal of emerging technologies – The first NASA IT Summit featured deep views into the future.

The first NASA IT Summit featured deep views into the future, including an interplanetary Internet, the evolution of computational computing and Gartner's top emerging technologies.

Study sheds light on how the brain shifts between sleep/awake states under anesthesia

Despite the fact that an estimated 25 million patients per year in the U.S. undergo surgeries using general anesthesia, scientists have only been able to hypothesize exactly how anesthetics interact with the central nervous system. They previously thought that the processes of "going under" and waking up from anesthesia affected the brain in the same way.