Category: People
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Rock & Roll Icon Stephen Stills Talks About How Hearing Aids Alleviate His Lifelong Hearing Loss
Oticon USA has used the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock concert to do a nice PR piece on Crosby, Stills & Nash player Stephen Stills, who uses Oticon Dual hearing aids.
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Back in Business, After a Long Break
I’ve been letting people know I’m re-booting my Hearing Mojo hearing-loss blog after having taken a long break from posting new entries.
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HearUSA Hires NFL Coaching Legend Don Shula To Promote Hearing Aids
HearUSA, he rapidly growing conglomerator of hearing-aid retail stores across the U.S., has hired Don Shula, the legendary former coach of the National Football League’s Miami Dolphins, to promote hearing aids among active Baby Boomers.
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NBA Basketball Legend Kevin McHale Supports Cochlear Implants For Kids
Basketball great Kevin McHale founded the Help Me Hear Foundation to provide cochlear implants for children.
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My Dad's Hearing Loss Is A Challenge Our Family Confronted Together
The loss of Dad’s hearing was not only a challenge that he had to overcome, but a challenge for everyone in the family.
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Introducing Jake Copithorne, Our Summer Intern At Hearing Mojo
The more news, information and stories we post on Hearing Mojo, the more interest there is in the site. Traffic has doubled in recent months and a lot of readers have emailed. Keeping a blog fed can take up a lot of time, so I’ve brought in some help this summer. My son Jake is…
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Josh Swiller Can Tell You Exactly What It's Like To Be Hard-Of-Hearing
Josh Swiller, who started an excellent blog several years ago about what it’s like to get a cochlear implant, wrote a great article for the New York Times Sunday Magazine today that may be the best description I’ve read of what it’s like to be hard-of-hearing.
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USA Today: How Starkey Founder Bill Austin Does Well By Doing Good
USA Today has published a wonderful profile on Bill Austin, Founder and CEO of the biggest hearing-aid manufacturer in the U.S., Starkey Laboratories.
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Check Out 'The Mobile Phone Challenge' At Healthy Hearing
Dr. Paul Dybala, who runs two excellent web sites for hard-of-hearing consumers and hearing health professionals — Healthy Hearing and Audiology Online — asked me to contribute an article to Healthy Hearing on my experiences shopping for mobile phones that would work with my powerful hearing aids.
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Likable "Incredible Hulk" Lou Ferrigno Is A Real-Life Inspiration For Hard-Of-Hearing People
“Incredible Hulk” Lou Ferrigno is a real-life inspiration for hard-of-hearing people.