Hearing Aids - Blog Posts

New Antibiotics Prevents Hearing Loss By: Ayanna Flegler, PreScouter Global ScholarBacterial infections remain a constant threat to human health. As treatment for such infections, antibiotics are used to either kill or prevent growth of bacteria. Aminoglycosides represent a widely used class of antibiotics that are effective, but can have a detrimental side effect of hearing loss. This reduction in hearing occurs when hair cells within the ear are lost as a result of aminoglycosides entering ear compartments. Although attempts have been made to develop new antibiotics preventing hearing loss, a difficulty has been that newly developed antibiotics are less potent...

The original member of The Who (from left: Roger Daltrey, John Entwistle, Keith Moon and Pete Townshend) performing in Chicago in 1975.Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons; picture by Jim Summaria. The Who is one of my favorite bands. In high school, my friends and I started to dress like Mods for a little bit after watching the film adaptation of “Quadrophenia.” My favorite member of the group is undoubtedly Pete Townshend. When I played in bands during high school and college, I always tried to mimic him in some way, mostly by being an idiot and trashing my cheap guitar...

Got Hearing Loss? Get a Cat! By Gael Hannan On November 24, 2014 You’ve seen the videos.  A dog brings slippers to his human, or becomes delirious with joy and jumps into his owner’s arms after a separation, even if it’s only been for a day.My cat sits on my slippers and is grumpy when I finally manage to pull them out from under her. When I walk through the door, Nicky and Charlie look up from their nap, acknowledge me with an eye blink (if I’m lucky) and then go back to sleep.   And if they do get up,...

A new version of a common antibiotic may allow patients to be treated without the risk of hearing loss, according to a new study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.Patients who take an aminoglycoside, the most commonly used class of antibiotics worldwide, risk a 20% to 60% chance of losing their hearing permanently. However, researchers at the Stanford University of Medicine recently tested a modified version of an aminoglycoside that works in mice without the adverse side effects of deafness or kidney damage.Often prescribed when other antibiotics fail, aminoglycosides are active against aerobic Gram-negative bacteria and can be used...

ReSound Hearing Aids Launch Android App in Time for CES 2015 1 Jan 6, 2015 - Ann Diab for the National EditionThe world’s smartest hearing aid, ReSound LiNX, today announced from the International CES conference in Las Vegas that the ReSound Smart app will now be available on Android. Previously, the ReSound smart hearing aids were compatible with iPhone and Apple iOS. At CES 2015, they’ve launched compatibility with the Samsung Galaxy S5 and plan to release on the rest of the Android line later in 2015.The appeal to ReSound is that it allows users to tailor their hearing experience...

Hearing aid uses your smartphone to target sound in a noisy room by Steve Dent | @stevetdent | January 5th 2015 at 9:00 am Siemens has revealed new smart hearing aids that will definitely leave your grandpa's old model in the dust. The "wearable hearing tech" can automatically kill noise and let you control the microphone's direction with a smartphone to better pick up a voice in a noisy room. Siemens says the tech has been "clinically proven to outperform people with normal hearing in background noise." The system works with an Android or iOS "easyTek" app to help you better...

NHS accused of ‘cruel’ rationing of hearing aidsSome 10 million people in the UK suffer hearing loss and cuts may raise risk of dementia and depression, charity warns Restricting the number of hearing aids is ‘driven by need to cut costs’, says the charity Action on Hearing. Photograph: Alamy Denis Campbell Saturday 3 January 2015 17.40 EST Campaigners are accusing the NHS of imposing “cruel” cuts on people who are going deaf by denying them the hearing aids they need.Growing numbers of NHS organisations are planning to ration access to the devices, even though they help to combat dementia, depression and...

Siemens, the German engineering conglomerate, said on Thursday that it had agreed to sell its hearing aid unit to the European private-equity firm EQT Partners and the Strüngmann family of Germany for €2.15 billion, or about US$2.69 billion. As a result, Siemens said it would not pursue a public listing of the unit, Siemens Audiology Solutions, which it announced in May.As part of the deal, Siemens would continue to hold €200 million in preferred equity in the business and have a seat on the board of the buyer group. The new owners would be allowed to use the Siemens name...

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Researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College and the Gladstone Institutes have found a way to prevent noise-induced hearing loss in a mouse using a simple chemical compound that is a precursor to vitamin B3. This discovery has important implications not only for preventing hearing loss, but also potentially for treating some aging-related conditions that are linked to the same protein.Published today in Cell Metabolism, the researchers used the chemical nicotinamide riboside (NR) to protect the nerves that innervate the cochlea. The cochlea transmits sound information through these nerves to the spiral ganglion, which then passes along those messages to the...

Hearing loss widespread among post-9/11 veterans Veterans Affairs Dept. buys one out of every five hearing aids sold annually in the U.S. Read More Here:http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/08/29/13283/hearing-loss-widespread-among-post-911-veterans?utm_content=buffer347a9&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer