Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Steven covers accessibility and assistive technologies. Late last month, cochlear implant maker Cochlear announced a coalition ...

The use of cochlear implants to treat children and adults with severe sensorineural hearing loss has made "incredible progress" over recent years, according to Christopher Bohr, MD, PhD, director of ...

Medical technology company MED-EL announced Thursday that the US Food and Drug Administration has approved expanding the use of its Synchrony cochlear implants to children as young as 7 months who ...

Existing treatment options, which include hearing aids or bone conduction devices, often fail to address these issues because they generally only serve to reroute sound signals from one ear to the ...

"Awareness of cochlear implantation among primary and hearing health care clinicians is inadequate, leading to under identification of eligible candidates. Clearer referral and cochlear implantation ...

When she’s not working as a regulatory coordinator to help launch clinical trials in the Department of Pediatrics, Oncology and Hematology Research Group at University of Utah Health, Mindy Torman ...

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is the first and only health system in the Carolinas to begin using the only FDA-cleared robotic-assisted cochlear implant technology. Cochlear implants can be ...

Typically, infants with hearing loss are first treated with hearing aids, and if these fail to help them develop early language and speech skills, they then become eligible for cochlear implants at 12 ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- A White Bear Lake woman hears her daughter's voice for the first time, and it's all thanks to the new cochlear implants she was fitted with by the University of Minnesota.

It wasn’t until my brother told me they were concerned that I noticed my niece couldn’t hear like other kids. When children are very young it can be extremely difficult to determine their level of ...

The Arizona Senate has passed a bill that aims to expand cochlear implant coverage for adults through Arizona's Medicaid program. It would revive coverage of cochlear implants for anyone at least 21 ...