Category: Cochlear Implants
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It's Official: Bilateral Cochlear Implants Improve Quality Of Life
A study by the Indiana University School of Medicine found “cochlear implants in both ears significantly improve quality of life in patients with profound hearing loss and that the cost of the second implant is offset by its benefits.
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Vaccination Can Lessen Meningitis Risk For Cochlear Implant Patients
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a new warning that cochlear implant patients make sure they get vaccinated against bacterial meningitis, a potentially deadly infection causing inflammation of the meninges, or lining of the brain.
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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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Future Cochlear Implant Patients Might Preserve Some Residual Hearing
Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a new, less-invasive means of implanting electrodes into the cochlea that may ultimately do less damage to hearing nerves in the cochlea and preserve more residual hearing in the patient.
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Advanced Bionics Is An Independent Cochlear Implant Maker Again
The acquisition by Boston Scientific, the world’s leading manufacturer of cardiac stents and other implant devices, of Advanced Bionics, one of the world’s three cochlear implant manufacturers, seemed a sure bet. But the marriage quickly soured and after several difficult years dissolved entirely last week.
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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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Postmodern Man: Michael Chorost's Cochlear-Implant Book, Rebuilt, Is About A Whole Lot More Than Cochlear Implants
You can learn everything you ever wanted to know about cochlear implants, and more, from Michael Chorost’s new book, Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human.
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Infants With Cochlear Implants Get More Language Sooner
A recent research report published by a team at Indiana University provides more evidence that the younger a hearing-impaired child receives a cochlear implant, the quicker he or she is to acquire spoken language.
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Cochlear Implants and Music
When you get a cochlear implant, it restores much ability to discern sound, but comprehension is another matter — it takes time for the brain to “map” sounds to intelligible words, music, etc.
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What About Cochlear Implants?
There’s a terrific story in the Wall Street Journal about the rapid increase in the number of children receiving implants before the age of three.