Hearing Aids - Blog Posts

I guess Hearing Planet did not think much of my review of their site and prices and business model. For reference, See my first entry here:http://centuryhearingaids.com/blog/hearing-planet-how-does-hearing-planet-workAnd my subsequent conversation with the Managing Director of Hearing Planet here:http://centuryhearingaids.com/blog/hearing-planet-review-update-my-discussion-with-managing-director-of-hearing-planetSo they thought it would be a good idea to "hijack" my company name and use it in their advertising. Below is screen shot of a google search, circled in red is a google adwords ad. This ad, with the headline "Century Hearing Aid - HearingPlanet.com" was created by HearingPlanet. Its an ad for HearingPlanet, Using my company name to get people to their...

The Do’s and Don’ts of Ear WaxCareful with those cotton swabs, home remediesThe Do’s and Don’ts of Ear Wax - You’ve all heard it before: Never put anything, especially a cotton swab, in your ears. Yet people still do it sometimes in an effort to clean their ears.Experts say that cotton swabs in the ears can cause disastrous results. “I had a patient who actually knocked her hearing bones out of place with a cotton swab. As a result, she lost significant hearing and needed two surgeries to rebuild those bones,” says neurotologist Erika Woodson, MD, FACS.Problems due to misuse...

The Hulk, Working for the Starkey Foundation.

It offers readers to send in their opinions - here is what the stands out.I'm ticked off that federal employees get free hearing aids. Since they are paid for by my (our) tax dollars, why can't we all get them free?What do you think?

The hearing aid entrepreneurs whom audiologists hate Published 20 March 2015 15:21, Updated 24 March 2015 11:25Larissa Nicholson “Disrupting a cosy, overpriced industry”: customer-fitted hearing aid pioneers Dr Elaine Saunders and Professor Peter Blamey A hearing aid package which eliminates the need to visit a specialist has not endeared the entrepreneurs behind it to their audiologist peers.But Dr Elaine Saunders and Professor Peter Blamey say positive feedback from clients who previously could not afford to address their hearing problems makes up for the criticism.Both respected scientists in their own right, Saunders and Blamey are the Melbourne team behind IHearYou: a...

The Greater Wax moth can hear high-pitched sound better than any known creature in the world. Yets its ears are very simple structure, each being about the size of a pinhead.For years, the Greater Wax moth's hearing has been a subject of study. More recently, scientists at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland, tested the moths hearing with a wide range or sounds. They measured the vibrations of the tympanal membranes and recorded the activity of their auditory nerves. The ear drum still responded when exposed to sounds at a frequency of 300 kilohertz. By comparison a bat echolocation has been...

Hearing Loss Population Segmented by Percentage - With Hearing Aids - and Without Hearing Aids - Data Nash (2013), Lin et al (2011), Lin (2011)and Wallhagen & Pettengill (2008

Where to Sell Your Used Hearing Aid for the Most Money. Ok, its not going to be easy to sell your hearing aids like iPhones would. You must remember the hearing aid was customized for you. The new owner probably not going to get it reprogrammed, tubes might be longer, mold not fit, etc, etc with all these negatives going against you, where do you sell your hearing aid for the most money?Craigslist How to do it: Craigslist is probably where you're going to get the most money if you're willing to deal with scammers, spammers, and the prospect of...

How To Avoid Three Hearing Aid Rip-offs Rip-off #1: UNBELIEVABLY LOW PRICE. How To Avoid Four Hearing Aid Rip-offs. To some degree, all of us are attracted by low price because we want to work within our budgets. But some hearing aids sellers use price as the bait for their false and misleading advertising. They offer a very cheap introductory price in the newspaper on a hearing aid, then, once they've fitted you with a hearing aid, you walk around the store and recognize it really does sound good - you are now emotionally involved. Then, sensing the moment, they...

Research from scientists at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada reveals that barn owls and lizards are some of the animal species that can help us to better understand hearing loss in humans. Healthy ears in barn owls and green anoles, a type of lizard, generate sounds just as healthy human ears do, according to new research from York University’s Department of Physics & Astronomy. An article on the study was published online in the March 2, 2015, edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).Christopher Bergevin, PhD, York University.“These animals, just like human beings, emit...

In the Age of the Internet, one group is being left out of the conversation—the hearing impaired.By Steve FriessThis is a common problem for people with hearing loss in the digital age, and the next day I found myself equally aggravated to see that just one major news website—CNN—provided live subtitles for Hillary Clinton’s email press conference. MSNBC, CBS, Fox, ABC, Bloomberg, and CSPAN all lacked live captioning on their streams, especially baffling since they all included them in the live TV presentations of the same event. Such is, but should not be, life in the Digital Age as one...

Work-related hearing loss has long been associated with prolonged exposure to occupational noise. But chemical exposure to "oxotoxins" can cause deafness as well. Researchers at Qld Uni are studying this to develop potential hearing tests for auditory loss detection caused by chemical exposure at work. At risk are workers handling textile, garments, plastic or rubber ware, paints, petrochemicals and other related products. Employees in aviation industries and some laboratories are also included.