Apple has teamed up with Australian-based Cochlear to bring iPhone users the first made for iPhone Cochlear implant.
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Apple and hearing assistance company Cochlear have teamed up to launch the first iPhone-compatible cochlear implant sound processor.
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Australian company Cochlear has teamed up with Apple to release the world's first cochlear implant sound processor made for iPhone.
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That's why it's significant that the company Cochlear just introduced the first made-for-iPhone cochlear implant, which joins the hearing aids that could already be linked to the iPhone.
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The simplest type of brain computer is a cochlear implant.
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CSL Ltd shed 0.7% while Cochlear Ltd gave up 1.2%.
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In Maine, Jane Sweet, almost 2, now wears cochlear implants.
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Or how someone with a cochlear implant hears the world?
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James does not have a cochlear implant; he uses hearing aids.
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CSL Ltd and Cochlear Ltd closed 1.6% and 0.9% lower, respectively.
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"The literature on outcomes for deaf children with cochlear implants shows patterned differences," Laura Mauldin, the author of the 2016 book "Made to Hear: Cochlear Implants and Raising Deaf Children," explained to me in an email.
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But now all have cochlear implants that, as Ms. Lippert put it, "really revolutionized my world" when, at age 267, she became the first preteen to get a cochlear implant at New York University Medical Center.
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Taking on the task of making iPhones with cochlear implants was harder.
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Heavyweight CSL Ltd rose 2.6 percent while Cochlear Ltd gained 2.9 percent.
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First, the made-for-iPhone cochlear implant has to hit the market.
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She qualified for a cochlear implant and had the surgery in 2012.
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Cochlear implant is signed with two fingers like teeth behind the ears.
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Cochlear Ltd and U.S.-based Resmed Inc shed 2.1% and 1%, respectively.
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It's almost $10,000 to buy a cochlear [implant] for my deaf grandson.
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Today, more than 40 percent of American children born deaf receive cochlear implants.
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Well over 300,000 people worldwide have had cochlear implants fitted in their ears.
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Healthcare stocks were bolstered by CSL which rose 23%, while Cochlear advanced 2.3%.
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It'll be available as an upgrade for qualifying cochlear implant owners in October.
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In the healthcare sector, Cochlear Ltd and CSL Ltd dropped 0.8 percent each.
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Cochlear shares rose 9 percent to hit an intraday high of A$99.89.
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Elsewhere in the sector Cochlear dropped 1.63% and Mayne Pharma Group fell 3.1%.
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Elsewhere in the sector, Cochlear dropped 3.4% and Mayne Pharma Group fell 2.1%.
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Cochlear implants convert sound into electrical signals and send them into the brain.
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Most are for medical reasons, like cochlear implants to help the deaf hear.
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Cochlear had fallen more than 7% since lowered its profit forecast last week.
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Index heavyweights CSL Ltd and Cochlear Ltd were down 0.7% and 4.4%, respectively.
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Cochlear Ltd shed 0.8%, while U.S.-based Resmed Inc's Australian shares lost 0.7%.
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Before she was born, I had never heard of cochlear implants or CMV.
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The INSIDER Summary:• Many deaf people are encouraged to get a cochlear implant.
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It was all created by Cochlear, an Australian company which specialises in hearing implants.
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Her family decided to try the cochlear implants on A'Deja after Ja'Lynn's proved successful.
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The new round was led by Cochlear Limited, an Australian medical device company. Apex.
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In early 2002, he received a cochlear implant, which enabled him to hear again.
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Most have compatible apps, like Cochlear, but they aren't necessary for using the device.
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Drug maker CSL Ltd gained 2.1% and medical devices developer Cochlear Ltd rose 1.5%.
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Biotherapeutics company CSL Limited and hearing implants maker Cochlear Ltd rose 00183 percent each.
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Sector heavyweight CSL Ltd rose 3.4 percent, while Cochlear Ltd was up 2.9 percent.
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He also uses cochlear implants after he started losing his hearing at age five.
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Cochlear implants are expensive and unrealistic without private health insurance or extensive government backing.
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It's true that cochlear implants are often misrepresented as the miracle cure for deafness.
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Whether to get a cochlear implant was, and still is, a first-world debate.
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Shortly after the evacuation, Mr. Krongauz contracted cochlear neuritis, losing hearing in one ear.
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Hearing aid maker Cochlear gained 1.6%, while U.S.-based Resmed Inc tacked on 1.2%.
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She wears a cochlear implantto help her functioning ear compensate for her hearing loss.
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Index heavyweight CSL Ltd advanced 4.3%, while medical device maker Cochlear Ltd rose 3%.
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GUTFELD: How do you feel about, like, cochlear implants, which allows the deaf to hear?
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So that actual cochlear implants, which allow you to hear, is actually a bad thing.
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"What cochlear implants have done for hearing, we want to do for mobility," Opie said.
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Big healthcare players Cochlear Ltd and CSL Ltd gained 1.3 percent and 1 percent, respectively.
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Cochlear plans to launch the processor in September for people in the US and Canada.
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Drugmaker CSL Ltd firmed 13 percent, while bionic-ear maker Cochlear Ltd rose 0.5 percent.
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Until she received a cochlear implant seven years ago, Rachel Kolb had been profoundly deaf.
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Biotherapeutics firm CSL Ltd logged a 1.2% gain, while shares of Cochlear Ltd rose 23%.
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Hearing implant maker Cochlear jumped 11% as its rival Sonova recalled some of its devices.
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Cochlear Implants are largely covered by insurance, unlike hearing aids, but you must have coverage.
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Alma is mostly deaf, though she can hear with the help of a cochlear implant.
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Index heavyweight CSL Ltd gained more than 2850.35%, while hearing devices maker Cochlear Ltd rose 20.2%.
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Deaf model and dancer was angered by one company's decision to edit out her cochlear implant.
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Biotherapeutics company CSL Limited and hearing implants maker Cochlear Ltd rose 1.1 percent and 1.7 percent.
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Cochlear implants can irritate the scalp; pacemaker wires dislodge; VR headsets weigh heavily on the face.
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In American Sign Language, the sign for cochlear implant is similar to the sign for vampire.
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But, so did Wi-Fi, black box flight recorders, cochlear implants, ultrasound technology and even atom splitting.
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Exposure to loud sound therefore altered brain plasticity, leaving the dorsal cochlear nucleus in a compromised state.
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Their search led them to a little device that could change their daughter's life: a cochlear implant.
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People who are deaf or severely hard-of-hearing can be fitted for cochlear implants, NIDCD said.
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Index heavyweight CSL Ltd lost 0.3 percent while hearing devices maker Cochlear Ltd was up 0.6 percent.
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Healthcare stocks fell more than 1%, with heavyweight CSL Ltd dropping 3.63%, while Cochlear Ltd lost 1.9%.
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Apple worked with Cochlear to synchronize how their iPhone-matching technology works between both devices at once.
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"It's not like when someone gets a cochlear implant and hears for the first time," she says.
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People with cochlear implants can now listen to music straight from a microchip into their neural system.
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She was born profoundly deaf and had recently received a cochlear implant to give her partial hearing.
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I think this is the dangerous underside of perpetuating an uncomplicated story of cochlear-implant-as-cure.
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Op-Docs For a generation of people with cochlear implants, technology is transforming the experience of deafness.
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When the F.D.A. finally approved cochlear implants for American children in 1990, the global protest movement peaked.
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We celebrated his third birthday, and the audiologist turned his cochlear implants on for the first time.
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Heavyweight healthcare stocks such as CSL Ltd and Cochlear fell as much as 1.1% and 0.8%, respectively.
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When a person has prosthetic limbs or a cochlear implant we don't call them anything other than human.
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Doctors at Cook Children's Hospital performed a 4-hour surgery, placing cochlear devices in both of Ayla's ears.
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When she heard sound for the first time after receiving cochlear implants, she was understandably a bit surprised.
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The healthcare index advanced 1.3 percent, supported by a 1.43 percent jump by bionic ear maker Cochlear Ltd.
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Cochlear implants restored young Ryland's ability to hear, and the Whittingtons thought they had overcome their toughest challenge.
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As cochlear implants show, one option is to let the world's most powerful learning machine do its stuff.
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In 1994, McDougald received cochlear implants, and his hearing was restored for the final years of his life.
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After six months of recovery, Duresseau got a cochlear implant in August to help with his hearing loss.
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Our suspicions were right: exposure to loud sound prevented the dorsal cochlear nucleus from boosting its incoming signals.
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Healthcare stocks also weakened, with sector heavyweight CSL Ltd shedding 0.3 percent and Cochlear Ltd dropping 0.4 percent.
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When her son lost his hearing, they were able to get him cochlear implants to help him hear.
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The drugmaker was trading 1.3% near a one-year high, while bionic ear maker Cochlear Ltd strengthened 3.33%.
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Hearing aids and devices called cochlear implants help people who have impaired hearing, but the devices aren't cures.
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Deaf infants are at risk of missing this crucial turning point in development, even after receiving cochlear implants.
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Ironically, I've realized many more of the ways that I really am deaf since getting my cochlear implant.
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Among healthcare stocks, biotech firm CSL Ltd and hearing implants maker Cochlear Ltd declined 0.5% and 2.3%, respectively.
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Index heavyweight CSL Ltd rose 3.2% to its highest level in over 1.33 months, while Cochlear Ltd added 3.1%.
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Half of these urban veterans lived at least 61 miles away from the closest facility with cochlear implant care.
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"I was born profoundly deaf and received my CI (Cochlear implant) at the age of 22 months," she said.
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Apple is working with Australian-based Cochlear to bring one of the first hearing aids made for the iPhone.
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Why it matters: The new Cochlear-iPhone connection highlights one of the most important trends in the mobile industry.
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Medical equipment maker Cochlear Ltd fell about 0.3 percent, while pharmacy operator Sigma Healthcare Ltd fell nearly 2 percent.
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Currently, hearing aids and devices called cochlear implants help people who have impaired hearing, but the devices aren't cures.
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She received a cochlear implant in July to treat her single-sided deafness in her right ear, Merrill said.
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Healthcare stocks advanced 0.9% to a record close, with CSL Ltd and Cochlear Ltd rising 0.8% and 329.563%, respectively.
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Elsewhere, drug maker CSL Ltd and medical devices maker Cochlear each fell about 2.2%, weighing on the healthcare index.
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"There are a large number of veterans who likely find it impossible to get to the specialized clinics able to fit them with cochlear implants," said Dr. Tim Hullar, senior author of the study and director of the cochlear implant program at Oregon Health and Science University and the Portland VA Medical Center.
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A specialist at St. Louis Children's Hospital suggested a cochlear implant could improve her hearing – but there was no guarantee.
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Cause of tinnitus traced to a new site Cells in the dorsal cochlear nucleus are capable of boosting their signals.
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Pharmaceutical firm CSL Ltd jumped 0.9 percent to a record high, while bionic ear maker Cochlear Ltd firmed 1.43 percent.
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Pharmaceutical firm CSL Ltd jumped 21.1 percent to a record high, while bionic ear maker Cochlear Ltd firmed 1.3 percent.
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Healthcare stocks also rose, with sector heavyweight CSL Ltd inching to a record high, while Cochlear Ltd put on 1.3%.
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Australia's biggest pharma company by market capitalisation, CSL Ltd rose 1.7 percent, while shares of Cochlear Ltd gained 1.4 percent.
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The pioneers of the cochlear implant attended these workshops; other researchers were trying to build a prosthetic for the eye.
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Healthcare stocks, which conduct a majority of business overseas, rallied 1.3%, with index heavyweight CSL and Cochlear each adding 1.5%.
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A cochlear implant sends sound as electrical pulses to the auditory nerve; it does not come preloaded with language information.
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An earlier version of this essay misspelled the surname of the author of a book on cochlear implants in children.
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The summer after I got my cochlear implant, I started to explore more of what music might mean to me.
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The Neediest Cases Fund Strangers approach Charlen Evans, on street corners and city buses, when they notice her cochlear implant.
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Henry's daughter has a daughter, now five years old, also born deaf, who was fitted with cochlear implants in infancy.
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Cochlear said it assumed there will not be any "material disruption" to the supply chain, including importing components from China.
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"The approval of the Nucleus 7 Sound Processor is a turning point for people with hearing loss, opening the door for them to make phone calls, listen to music in high-quality stereo sound, watch videos and have FaceTime calls streamed directly to their Cochlear implant," Cochlear CEO Chris Smith said in a statement.
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Technically it ain't brain surgery, but let's just say you wouldn't want to do a cochlear implant while sleepy or distracted.
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During this period, cells in the dorsal cochlear nucleus try to compensate for this low surrounding volume by boosting their signal.
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It is also hoped the stentrode will be as important to medicine as the cochlear implant, which was invented in Australia.
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This week, the company behind the Cochlear implant announced a new version of its processor that connects wirelessly to an iPhone.
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Bionic eyes offer very low-resolution vision; cochlear implants can electronically carry limited speech information, but distort the experience of music.
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In the moment when Rachel's cochlear implants are turned on, we aimed to have a sound cue that jolted us physically.
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Healthcare stocks declined 1.4%, pulled lower by a 2% drop in heavyweight CSL Ltd and a near 1% decline in Cochlear.
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Brodsky, who narrates much of the film, introduces her son Jonas as he receives cochlear implants, allowing him to clearly hear.
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She had been hearing-impaired since childhood, and had a hearing aid in one ear and a cochlear implant in the other.
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The 34-year-old Baltimore teacher, who was born with congenital hearing loss, recently got a cochlear implant to restore his hearing.
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Healthcare stocks were the second biggest losers, with CSL Ltd, Sonic Healthcare and Cochlear Ltd dropping between 1.3 percent and 2.2 percent.
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The University of Mississippi Medical Center shared a video on Facebook of a patient, Andrea Diaz, who just had cochlear implant activated.
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Cochlear on Tuesday announced a new implant which will be commercially available in Germany and other European countries in the coming months.
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Overall, half of these veterans lived at least 80 miles away from a VA facility providing cochlear implant care, the study found.
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Frequency's lead program is focused on treating chronic hearing loss by regenerating cochlear hair cells with combinations of easily made drug molecules.
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Healthcare stocks were also sought out in early trade, with CSL Ltd and Cochlear Ltd climbing 0.9 percent and 2.4 percent, respectively.
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Hearing aid maker Cochlear Ltd tumbled 5.5% as the company flagged a lower earnings per share target at its annual general meeting.
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Export-reliant health stocks ended down 1.2% as drug maker CSL Ltd lost 1.3% and medical devices developer Cochlear Ltd declined 1.2%.
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The cochlear implant was approved by the FDA in 1985, and the decades since have offered only incremental improvements on existing technology.
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Healthcare giants CSL Ltd and Cochlear Ltd also contributed to the gains on the index, rising 1.6 percent and 2.6 percent, respectively.
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The Australian healthcare index closed at a record high with heavyweights CSL Ltd and Cochlear rising 3 percent and 1.2 percent, respectively.
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Shares in Cochlear plummeted 16.7% in morning trade on the Australian stock exchange, far outstripping a 4.7% fall on the broader market.
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Hearing aids and cochlear implants that amplify sounds are traditional, if limited, solutions, but now breakthrough medical remedies are in the works.
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Those parents are brought back here, alongside a new primary subject: Brodsky's young son, who gets cochlear implants much earlier in life.
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Drugmaker CSL and hearing aid maker Cochlear each closed about 1% higher, helping the healthcare sub-index end at a record high.
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Studies show that auditory signals are transmitted from the cochlea, in the inner ear, to a brain structure called the dorsal cochlear nucleus.
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As more parents opt for cochlear implants, VICE News explores their impact on the medical condition that gave rise to a cultural identity.
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Health care stocks also advanced, with index heavyweight CSL Ltd rising 1.1 percent to a record high, while Cochlear Ltd strengthened 2.2 percent.
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Veterans living in urban areas fared better than their rural counterparts, but some of them still faced long trips for cochlear implant services.
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Over 300,000 people have cochlear implants, which help them to hear by converting sound into electrical signals and sending them into the brain.
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Naturally, many of those who've lost their hearing are keen on getting it back, somehow, with things like hearing aids and cochlear implants.
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Healthcare stocks also declined with major sector players in the benchmark CSL Ltd and Cochlear Ltd shedding 0.8 percent and 0.2 percent, respectively.
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You measure cochlear fluid with an instrument in your ear and record intraocular pressure by tapping a pressure sensor against your anesthetized eyeball.
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The healthcare index fell as much as 1.3% with drug maker CSL Ltd losing 1.5% and medical devices developer Cochlear Ltd retreating 1.2%.
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Helping on Thursday was a bumper profit report from hearing device maker Cochlear Ltd which surged 9.65 percent to an all-time high.
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The Nucleus 7 sound processor will allow users to stream sounds directly to their Cochlear implant from their iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
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Healthcare stocks were the second biggest losers on the index, with CSL Ltd and Cochlear Ltd falling 2.1 percent and 0.5 percent, respectively.
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Cochlear said in a statement it would sell a further 2,400 hearing aids to China in the remainder of fiscal 2016 and 2017.
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Bionic-ear maker Cochlear Ltd and investment management firm Challenger Ltd fell sharply after reporting disappointing results, putting a lid on the benchmark.
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The most successful neural prosthesis, the cochlear implant, resembles its biological analogue about as closely as a manila folder resembles a laptop computer.
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Those features, which sort of resemble fitness tracking, such as through a Fitbit, are especially useful for parents whose children wear cochlear implants.
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Using creativity -- and a lot of glitter -- the teacher added hearing aids and cochlear implants to the new baby dolls for the school.
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Drugmaker CSL Ltd, a heavyweight in the healthcare sector, rose nearly 4.43%, while hearing aid maker Cochlear stepped as much as 0.4% higher.
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In the healthcare sector Cochlear Ltd, which manufactures implants to treat hearing loss, added 23.65 percent and biopharmaceutical researcher CSL Ltd climbed 2.1 percent.
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If true, this would be strong evidence implicating the dorsal cochlear nucleus as the false signal generator, making it a target for therapeutic intervention.
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Regan wears a cochlear implant that gives her extremely minimal hearing; she has more of a physical sense of presence than an auditory one.
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At one point, I mentioned that I had a finger magnet to Michael Chorost, who got a groundbreaking cochlear implant to restore his hearing.
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The rest of the veterans lived in rural areas, and half of these veterans were at least 119 miles from a cochlear implant facility.
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The 10-year-old girl, Shae Bell, had just gotten a cochlear implant, and Natalie came up with the perfect idea: a velcro sign.
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Instead of turning sound into electrical signals to be transmitted to the brain, as current cochlear implants do, this technique turns sound into light.
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First, diagnostics will greatly improve over the next few decades, followed by breakthroughs in hearing aids and cochlear implants, drugs and maybe gene therapy.
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Australian healthcare stocks, seen as defensive plays, ended the session about 33% higher, with heavyweights CSL Ltd and Cochlear Ltd advancing about 23% each.
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Hearing aids and electronic devices called cochlear implants help people who have impaired hearing from aging, noise exposure, genetics, or side effects from drugs.
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Finally, Phumize read about cochlear implants, electronic devices that can help certain people with hearing loss, and raised enough money to get the device.
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But at least a few students each year ask me why I don't have a cochlear implant and whether I want to get one.
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The American Sign Language word for "cochlear implant" was two curved fingers zapping the base of the skull, like a snake biting its prey.
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Healthcare stocks dropped 13%, dragged lower by a 1.5% fall in sector heavyweight CSL Ltd and a 2.4% dive in hearing implants maker Cochlear.
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Cochlear implants are used to restore hearing and speech in people who are deaf and experimental research has demonstrated prosthetic limbs being controlled with thoughts.
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But the reason why I bring up the cochlear implants is there is a movement of people who believe that you&aposre eliminating deaf culture.
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Then Hayward received a cochlear implant, a device that replaces the function of the damaged inner ear, which would give the couple their communication back.
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The couple is committed to learning ASL, even though Hayward now has the cochlear implant, to ensure they never have to go without communication again.
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Another man had a DBS, cochlear implant and cardiac pacemaker that all operated near the same frequency and interfered with the operation of the devices.
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Healthcare stocks also tumbled, with index heavyweight CSL Ltd shedding 1.7 percent, while Cochlear Ltd and Resmed Inc fell 2.2 percent and 2.73 percent, respectively.
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Cochlear shares leapt 290 percent, smashing through the A$21 barrier for the first time to reach a high of A$21.4075 by late afternoon.
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Index heavyweight CSL, whose second biggest market is China, dropped 4.5 percent to its lowest in nearly four months, while Cochlear Ltd fell 5.2 percent.
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Many people rely on cochlear, or inner ear implants, which directly stimulate the hearing nerve and use an external sound processor to help people hear.
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Bionic-ear maker Cochlear Ltd rose 3.2 percent and also closed at a record high, while Australia-listed shares of Resmed Inc firmed 0.8 percent.
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In this immersive virtual reality experience, the scholar Rachel Kolb shares her experience of hearing music for the first time after receiving a cochlear implant.
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"While full coverage for cochlear implantation may be provided by the Veterans Health Administration, thus eliminating the potential `insurance issue' of coverage for cochlear implantation, large distances to travel each requiring repeated visits are yet another barrier to accessing care," said Dr. Neil Bhattacharyya, a professor of otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston who wasn't involved in the study.
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Rather than have me undergo cochlear implant surgery — the underappreciated difficulties of which are outlined by Sara Novic in her essay "A Clearer Message on Cochlear Implants" — my parents hoped to supplement my sign language education with cued speech, a visual communication system invented in 1966 at Gallaudet University that functions as a supplement to speech-reading (only 30 percent of speech is visible on the lips).
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Herrlinger says that an iPhone or iPod Touch pairs with hearing aids—cochlear and conventional—the same way that it finds AirPods or nearby Bluetooth speakers.
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Export-reliant healthcare stocks rose 2.53% to all-time highs, with sector heavyweight CSL Ltd and hearing devices maker Cochlear Ltd adding 22.5% and 22.8%, respectively.
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The photo of his ditched belongings: school supplies, homework, a debit card, and his cochlear implant battery -- which he needs in order to hear -- went viral.
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MANUEL NAVASBogotá Your Technology Quarterly on brain-computer interfaces mentioned that cochlear implants "convert sound into electrical signals and send them into the brain" (January 6th).
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Hearing implant maker Cochlear Ltd slumped as much as 21.6% after scrapping its full-year earnings forecast and was the top percentage loser in the benchmark.
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The value of the tool lies only in the skill of its user, and for the cochlear implant user, that skill is learned with much effort.
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In some ways, a VAD is nothing more than another implantable device, much like an insulin pump for diabetics or a cochlear implant for the deaf.
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Personal Health 'My mother practically cried when I heard a cricket chirping in the house,' says a woman who got a cochlear implant at age 26.
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Blue-chip healthcare stocks also benefited from improved risk sentiment, with biotherapeutics firm CSL Ltd and hearing implant maker Cochlear Ltd jumping 2.3% and 2.2%, respectively.
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Frequency's focus is on developing small molecule drugs that activate dormant progenitor cells, types of stem cells, to repair damaged cochlear hair cells and restore hearing.
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Cochlear warned that demand for hearing implants may struggle to catch-up in China if the epidemic does not subside soon and continues to delay surgeries.
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Cochlear Ltd fell 5.2% after the hearing implants maker cut its full-year underlying profit forecast on anticipated impact on demand in China from the coronavirus.
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Most of them can manage with hearing aids and cochlear implants — electrodes that transmit vibrations from sound into the inner ear, restoring at least partial hearing.
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Export-oriented healthcare stocks also fell, as the Australian dollar hit a six-week peak, with index heavyweight CSL falling 1.2 percent while Cochlear shed 1.3 percent.
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The system he was using came from a collaboration between Apple and Cochlear, a company that has been involved with implant technology since the treatment's early days.
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Hearing devices maker Cochlear ended about 3.8 percent lower after a U.S. district court awarded $268.1 million in damages against the company in a patent infringement lawsuit.
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But oftentimes I find that ideas that seem futuristic are already around us, like having a cochlear implant or an IUD technically can make you a cyborg.
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She created a small attachment that reads, "I AM DEAF I HAVE A COCHLEAR IMPLANT NO MRI," to put on Shae's seat belt, backpack, and other accessories.
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Like other surgical procedures, getting a cochlear implant requires intensive rehabilitation — including multiple follow-up appointments and speech therapy — as the brain learns how to hear again.
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Cochlear shares, however, were down 2.85 percent in afternoon trade amid slowing growth forecasts and after the stock surged more than 30 percent so far this year.
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Healthcare stocks drove the gains on the benchmark, with the country's fifth biggest firm by market value CSL firming 2.6 percent, while Cochlear rose about 3 percent.
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"I think with Cochlear, their investors more than anything were looking for an excuse to take profits off the table following a remarkably strong 13," McGlew added.
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In a sign of some positivity, Cochlear said there was a "small but growing number" of surgeries back on track in China over the past few weeks.
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People with illnesses and disabilities have benefited too: Cochlear implants can help deaf children hear; patients with Parkinson's disease can reduce their symptoms with deep brain stimulation.
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The hope was that the device, called a cochlear implant, might eventually enable even profoundly deaf people to understand speech and to articulate a typical human voice.
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A graduate of New York's prestigious Stuyvesant High School and Wesleyan University, Ms. Pollick was in graduate school researching primate vocalizations when she got a cochlear implant.
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Sonova said it was retrieving un-implanted devices of the initial version of HiRes Ultra and Ultra 3D cochlear implants produced by its U.S. subsidiary Advanced Bionics.
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So in our quest to find out how tinnitus sets in and what prevents it from going away, this is where we started: in the dorsal cochlear nucleus.
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The issue surrounds what is called microsurgery, in particular, installing cochlear implants, tiny devices that relay sound directly to the inner ear of someone with a hearing impairment.
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From insulin pumps to cochlear implants and powered prosthetic joints, more and more medical devices rely on transmitting medical data to providers through Wi-Fi and Bluetooth protocols.
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Unable to make sense of sound, Kaver became reliant on lip-reading and note-taking assistance from peers, before she decided to undergo surgery for a cochlear implant.
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Michelle Christie: I think there's a myth out there that when a child gets a hearing device, like hearing aids or a cochlear implant, that immediately they're fixed.
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The healthcare sub-index advanced 2.4 percent, with heavyweight CSL Ltd putting on as much as 2.8 percent, while Cochlear Ltd was another major gainer, rising 3.1 percent.
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The app lets users track how often their sound processor fails to connect to their cochlear implant and the amount of time they spend in environments involving speech.
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It's no secret that a heated debate over cochlear implantation has evolved in recent years, one frequently reduced to an either-or battle between sign language and speech.
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We interviewed 14 of Dr. Madell's former patients, those young enough to be born after cochlear implantation was viable yet old enough to have insight into the experience.
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Healthcare stocks also posted steep declines, with Cochlear Ltd down 0.4%, while CSL Ltd, the country's most expensive stock, was poised to end a four-day winning streak.
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Those far more hearing-impaired than I could describe the major adjustments and concessions they make daily — not to mention the money spent on treatments like cochlear implants.
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Drugmaker CSL advanced as much as 33%, in its biggest intraday percentage gain in over a week, while Cochlear strengthened 1.3% in its best session since Dec. 18.
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Biotherapeutics company CSL Ltd climbed 210 percent to a record, pushing the index up, while medical device company Cochlear Ltd firmed 28.5 percent to its highest level ever.
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Hospitals are "currently deferring surgeries, including cochlear implants, to limit the risk of infection from the coronavirus," the company said in a filing with the Australian Securities Exchange.
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CSL Ltd, the country's fifth largest firm by market value, firmed 21.4817 percent, while hearing aid maker Cochlear Ltd strengthened 2.3 percent to a more than one-week high.
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Last week, however, her parents Julia Tirabasso and William Jones watched in amazement as their infant finally heard them for the first time with the assistance of cochlear implants.
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Through his foundation, DiMarco is advocating that parents teach their deaf children American Sign Language even if they plan on getting their child a cochlear implant or hearing aid.
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Levanway lost most of his hearing when was 4 years old because of an illness, but cochlear implants let him hear close to normally in face-to-face conversations.
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Sarah Herrlinger, director of global accessibility policy for Apple, said a key challenge with implants was fact that audiologists do not always prescribe a matched set of Cochlear implants.
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Cochlear implants, on the other hand, have become one of the most successful and most prevalent bionic implants -- over 300,000 users around the world use the implants to hear.
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If a person had a genetic mutation that caused the cochlear hairs to die off, taking a drug like the one Edge is working on won't fix that problem.
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Inspired by the rapid advancements in cochlear implants and other medical implants, DARPA began work on the modem in 2016 as part of a four-year, $60-million program.
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Hearing implant maker Cochlear Ltd fell about 10 percent to a more than one-month low, as it flagged slowing growth across developed markets in the 2019 financial year.
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Some changes in hearing can happen over time, or by just one binge but cases of profound hearing loss caused by opioids can only be treated by cochlear implants.
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Gently, I slide the sound processors of Anna's cochlear implants above each of her ears, where surgically embedded magnets latch onto radio waves and transport sound into her brain.
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According to the American Academy of Audiology , children who have received cochlear implants at a young age "demonstrated improvement in sound detection and in their auditory perception skills following implantation."
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Cochlear implants bypass the usual hearing process by embedding a device in the inner ear and connecting it via electrodes to the nerve that sends audio signals to the brain.
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The three moments that we do that are all moments when we go into the sonic perspective of Regan, the deaf daughter, when she has her cochlear implant turned off.
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"The most striking finding to me was the number of medium and even very large cities in the US where no VA center performs cochlear implants," Hullar said by email.
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Healthcare stocks rose 0.9 percent to a near 6-month high, with index heavyweight CSL Ltd notching the top percentage gain at 1.1 percent, while Cochlear Ltd firmed 0.6 percent.
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With the cochlear device implanted into her skull, Francesca now becomes the third-youngest baby, aside from two 3-month-olds, at the Toronto hospital to receive the hearing aid.
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Cochlear had just last month cut its profit forecast for the year because of delays to surgeries in another one of its key markets, China, the epicentre of the outbreak.
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Most concerns about M.R.I.s involve people with metal, such as shrapnel, embedded in their bodies, or someone with an implanted medical device, like a cochlear implant or an older pacemaker.
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Better yet, we showed that a high magnesium diet can prevent the dorsal cochlear nucleus from turning the dials all the way up and locking this in place as a memory.
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A processor captures sound, which is converted into electrical signals and sent to an electrode in the inner ear, stimulating the cochlear nerve so that sound is heard in the brain.
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Especially in relation to Regan, Millicent Simmonds' deaf character, when there are sequences in the film where she has her cochlear implant turned off, and we go to complete digital zero.
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"A'deja had a great reaction," audiologist Shelly Ash, who is also the cochlear implant team coordinator at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida, told Good Morning America Wednesday.
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At the symphony, the cochlear implant whisked me into a flush of sound, but I was still enthralled by the visual — watching the physical artistry of the musicians with their instruments.
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Hearing aid maker Cochlear Ltd was among the worst performers on the subindex, shedding nearly 4% after the company flagged a lower earnings per share target at its annual general meeting.
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In this documentary, Jonas's mom, the filmmaker Irene Taylor Brodsky, combines real footage and animation to tell her son's story, exploring the aural world of a gifted child with cochlear implants.
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For the study, researchers examined how close 19.9 million veterans lived to a VA facility offering cochlear implant services including audiologists to evaluate the extent of hearing loss with or without implants.
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In company news, Australian firm Cochlear, which makes hearing implants, announced net profit for the year ended June 2016 was up 30 percent on-year at 188.9 million Australian dollars ($144.5 million).
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Born Profoundly Deaf and having worn a Cochlear Implant from a young age, she designs products to help people improve their quality of life, with the added value of expressing personal style.
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A university media representative said that one, otolaryngologist Frank Lin of the Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health, had signed a nondisclosure agreement, and that the rest "can't comment" for undisclosed reasons.
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Some people choose not to wear hearing aids, because they find them uncomfortable and add little benefit; cochlear implants do come with health risks and have created a rift within the deaf community.
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Their use, however, is limited by the need to renew their batteries—and this is a particular problem for those, such as cochlear implants (which improve hearing), that are inside the wearer's head.
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And where fears of budget cuts and eugenics intersect, some worry about the threat of mandatory cochlear implantation, via which deaf students could theoretically be integrated into hearing schools at a lower cost.
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Children with a cochlear implant and no access to visual language may be unwittingly engaged in a race against the clock as they learn to interpret the electrical signals provided by the implant.
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It wasn't long ago that animals started talking to humans, thankfully, due to the efforts of a Brazilian genius, Roberto Kaz, who discovered the way to include other audio spectrums in cochlear implants.
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Australia's Cochlear Ltd raised A$930 million ($549.35 million) on Wednesday through an institutional and retail share offer which bankers said could be a sign that more transactions will unfold across the region.
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One of Frequency's key breakthroughs was figuring out how to grow cochlear tissue outside the body to do proper drug screening, thereby allowing researchers to identify the small molecules that have this effect.
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In her 2007 feature debut, "Hear and Now," the documentary filmmaker Irene Taylor Brodsky followed her middle-aged parents as they got cochlear implants that allowed them to hear for the first time.
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Hearing implants maker Cochlear said Tuesday it is reducing its outlook for fiscal year 231 due to the outbreak's impact in the Greater China region, one of the main markets for the company.
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The first robot-assisted cochlear implant in a clinical trial, which researchers describe today in the journal Science Robotics, doesn't just enhance a surgeon's dexterity like the by-now-common da Vinci robot might.
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This intervention is successful, but by the time the temporary hearing loss disappears, the signal boost has been stored as a "memory" in the dorsal cochlear nucleus, a memory which is not easily forgotten.
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That's because Bahnmueller suffers from hearing loss so severe that a year ago he underwent surgery to install a cochlear implant—an electronic device in the inner ear that replaces the usual hearing mechanism.
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The device shouldn't be used if you have any other implants or metallic devices in or near your head, such as cochlear implants, stents, aneurysm clips or coils, and vagus nerve stimulators, among others.
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A'deja Rivers has been deaf since birth and so has lived in a silent world without hearing her mom's voice but all that changed June 20 when the tiny tot's cochlear implants were activated.
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Sam's doctor told me that some in the Deaf community would think it's "child abuse" for her to perform cochlear implant surgery, the next step in technology if over-the-ear aids aren't effective.
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Disability When I got a cochlear implant seven years ago, after being profoundly deaf for my entire life, hearing friends and acquaintances started asking me the same few questions: Had I heard music yet?
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Once I got the cochlear implant, a transmitter of rough-hewn sound that set my skull rattling and my nerves screeching, I found that music jolted my core in ways I could not explain.
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Because of her cochlear implants and our weekly auditory-verbal therapy — which involves me deliberately adding language to everything we see and do — Anna pointed at a salmon and made the sound swish-swish.
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"When you take away the ability to lip read and background noise, it becomes very difficult for people with hearing loss to follow the conversation," Emma Ramsay, Senior Audiologist at Cochlear, said in a statement.
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Tobias Moser, a professor of auditory neuroscience at the University Medical Center Göttingen, is working to improve the function of a cochlear implant by turning it into an optical device instead of an electric one.
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Cochlear dipped as much as 7.9 percent to a near four-month low after posting a 10 percent rise in its net profit to A$245.8 million ($178.72 mln), in line with the company's guidance.
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At this year's event, watch in virtual reality as a woman with cochlear implants hears music for the very first time — a special preview screening before the film goes live on our NYT VR app.
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She currently wears a Cochlear Bone Anchored Hearing Device (BAHA), a device designed for people who have her condition or experience some form of single-sided deafness, which allows her to hear on both sides.
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Among his most notable achievements are the microchip for a cochlear implant that improves the hearing of children who are born deaf and an artificial pancreas that regulates the secretion of insulin in people with diabetes.
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David Alianiello has had severe hearing loss all his life, but he didn't miss a sound at his wedding on Saturday thanks to a cochlear implant that restored his hearing just in time for the milestone.
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"No one will know you're deaf unless you tell them," says Berry, who, like most of her students, lost her hearing after childhood: She began going deaf in her 30s and now has a cochlear implant.
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We don't want to repeat the ableist claims that appear so often in the media, even sometimes in this paper, that disability is a condition to be cured; Deafness is a condition to be cochlear-ed.
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Though Cochlear—which, according to its senior VP for research and development Jan Janssen, has about half of the implant market—is the first to use the system, Apple will offer the technology free to qualified manufacturers.
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When Meredith Sugar, president of the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, retorted that ASL was becoming obsolete in light of better hearing aid and cochlear implant technology, the arguing went public.
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The Food and Drug Administration initially approved cochlear implants only for adults, but research has shown that they're vastly more effective if they're put in before the parts of the brain that process speech have developed fully.
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Although the reason for the association remains unknown, animal studies suggest that iron deficiency may reduce blood flow to the inner ear, affecting the cochlear ganglion, the group of nerve cells that transmit sound to the brain.
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Shares of medical device firm Cochlear, however, tumbled 3.39% after the company reduced its outlook for fiscal year 2020 due to the outbreak's impact in the Greater China region, one of the main markets for the company.
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Why no one yet knows: Langer and Karp's earlier findings involved human cochlear tissue that had been removed from a 40-year-old, who'd had to have it removed in order for surgeons to get to a tumor.
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Shares in Cochlear Ltd, which reported a 30 percent rise in profits, traded as much as 6 percent lower as profit-taking investors sold and the company forecast profit growth of only 15 percent in the next year.
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Index Heavyweight CSL, whose second biggest market is China, declined 22 percent to a more than 3-1/2 month low, while Cochlear Ltd saw its worst day in two-months as it fell as much 7.1 percent.
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"I think that (healthcare) is pretty much a safety play at this point, as most of the stocks in the healthcare sector like CSL, Cochlear are way overvalued, if you look at it on historical terms," Somasundaram added.
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One of the leading theories behind what causes most cases of chronic tinnitus is that it begins with misfiring neurons in the dorsal cochlear nucleus—one of the two regions of the brainstem where auditory information is first processed.
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Cochlear implants are the best treatment available for moderate to severe sensorineural hearing loss - the type of permanent hearing loss that can be caused by aging and by exposure to loud noises that many veterans may experience in combat.
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Alfred E. Mann, who started medical device companies that pioneered in the development of pacemakers for erratic hearts, insulin pumps for diabetics, cochlear implants for the deaf and retinal implants for the blind, died on Thursday in Las Vegas.
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With any luck, in our lifetimes, potentially soon, even, some of this hearing loss will be fixable — not with hearing aids or cochlear implants, which aren't available to everyone and don't work for a high percentage of people anyway.
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Drugmaker CSL Ltd, which has had a stellar year so far marked by multiple all-time highs and a record annual profit, dipped 1.2 percent, while Cochlear Ltd weakened 23 percent to its lowest in more than a month.
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SYDNEY, Feb 12 (Reuters) - The Australian government said it is weighing a proposal from a consortium including hearing implant maker Cochlear Ltd to buy a state owned service which gives hearing assistance to children, older people, indigenous Australians and veterans.
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The firms announced last week that the first product based on this approach, Cochlear's Nucleus 7 sound processor, won FDA approval in June—the first time that the agency has approved such a link between cochlear implants and phones or tablets.
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When researchers looked at facilities with comprehensive cochlear implant care - including both surgical and audiologic services - half of the veterans in the study lived at least 101 miles away and 13% of them had to travel more than 201 miles.
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It is the cochlear-implant's processor, an external self-contained device, that converts sound to electrical signals which it transmits by induction through the skin of the skull to the implant, which then feeds the signals to the auditory nerves.
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"It's the first time people with an iPhone will be able to pick up the phone normally, or just listen to music, without any additional devices," said Jan Janssen, senior vice president of research and development at Cochlear, in an interview.
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Imagine, for example, a device like the one developed by the UC San Francisco researchers, but with the speech synthesizer hooked directly to a receiving person's auditory cortex, similar to a cochlear implant (the auditory cortex is associated with hearing).
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With earnings season continuing, shares of hearing aid maker Cochlear went up 14.11 percent after the company reported half-yearly net profit was up by 32 percent at A$94 million ($67 million) for the six months to December 31.
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Aids typically cost between $3,000–$7,000 a pair (and that skyrockets to $30–$50K for a cochlear implant) and are rarely covered by insurance, so ruining them is not an especially sound financial move, no matter how much you love facials.
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I thought of him as the mad scientist of the podcast world, which was exactly what we needed to create a sound design that could accurately represent the sounds that Rachel was hearing when she first turned on her cochlear implant.
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Though Jonah can now hear through the use of cochlear implants, this documentary is an intimate chronicling of his journey to learn how to play Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" on the piano — a piece written while the composer himself was going deaf.
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At that point, a wired-in allegiance to Apple secrecy—maybe employees have that implanted in their heads, like cochlear devices—kicked in, and none of the five Apple people who were on the call with me would shed light on that matter.
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Just to give you an example, a friend of mine has a digital hearing aid — a cochlear implant which is basically implanted into his brain and it translates an audio signal into a digital signal, and that's why he's able to hear again.
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"If you took the China tender business out, the business from the private pay would have still been up 35, 40 percent," said Cochlear Chief Executive Officer Chris Smith in a telephone interview, referring to the shift from Chinese government to private sales.
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"In people with very good hearing, we need to be aware of how early changes in hearing affect the brain," said Dr. Frank Lin, director of the Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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When she was twenty, she received a cochlear implant—a surgically placed electronic device that transmits sound impulses from a microphone near the ear to electrodes in the cochlea, bypassing the eardrum and directly stimulating the hair cells and the auditory nerve fibres.
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"Growing up, I was always involved in the Deaf community," said the star, who recently established the Nyle DiMarco Foundation which advocates that parents teach their Deaf children American Sign Language even if they plan on getting their child a cochlear implant or hearing aid.
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Deaf people's levels of hearing loss vary greatly, and thanks to advances in hearing aids and cochlear implants, it's increasingly rare for someone to not be able to hear anything, especially at live concerts, where the speakers can blast sound at over 100 decibels.
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Rachel Kolb, a doctoral candidate at Emory University who has been deaf since birth and got an implant at 20 years old, believes that the popular notion of cochlear-implant-assisted hearing as "automatic and normal" is detrimental to those who use the technology.
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In a statement, Cochlear said it will sell a further 2,400 hearing aids to China in the remainder of fiscal 2016 and 2017 and forecast net profit would grow up to 30 percent for the current full year, compared to analyst forecasts of about 22 percent.
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He dreams of a future in which his refrigerator will order milk, his shirt will monitor his mood and heart rate, and some kind of neurophone connected to his cochlear nerve and a microphone implanted in his jaw will make calling people as easy as saying hello.
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From the 2013 collection Visions/Voices through Hand in Hand, she's made music that feels sort of like listening to thoughts from inside of her head, as if in some cochlear cosmic accident, her nerves got fused to yours in a misfiring bundle of electrical impulses.
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" I explain that deafness offers me a unique perspective on the world, or joke that I like it quiet when I'm writing, but I always end with a fact: "It would be a big commitment — learning to use a cochlear implant takes a lot of work.
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Perez-Peralta's tireless concentration in school, despite paying off by earning her a slot in Temple University's Class of 2023 and an impressive scholarship from Cochlear — a company that manufacturers hearing aids for people who are deaf or hard of hearing — contributed to this inevitable auditory fatigue.
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The new findings should alert people to the possibility that children with poor school performance and behavior problems might have hearing loss, said Dr. Maura Cosetti, who directs the Cochlear Implant Center at New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai in New York City.
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Nick Opie, a biomedical engineer at the University of Melbourne, told reporters the team hoped the cost of the device, after it has undergone human testing and is ready for market, would be similar to the cochlear implant — around A$15,000 (US$10,567) to A$20,000 (US$14,089).
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Those who lose hearing later in life, either due to a toxin, loud noise or simply as a part of aging, can be fitted with hearing aids to amplify sounds; children born with hereditary hearing loss can get complex devices called cochlear implants surgically placed deep into the ear.
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In the opening film, "Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements" (on Tuesday at JCC Manhattan), the director Irene Taylor Brodsky examines how different degrees of hearing loss molded her family; she shares the experiences of her deaf parents and a son who has grown up with cochlear implants.
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Charles J. LimbFrancis A. Sooy Professor, Chief of Division of Otology, Neurotology and Skull Base Surgery, Director of Douglas Grant Cochlear Implant Center, Departments of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery and Neurosurgery, University of California San Francisco School of MedicineIn humans, the auricle (or pinna) is involved in hearing but not required for hearing.
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Such coverage was specifically excluded when the Medicare law was passed in 22011, a time when hearing loss was not generally recognized as a medical issue and hearing aids were not very effective, said Dr. Frank R. Lin, who heads the Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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" * William Demant's competitors include Australia's Cochlear , Austria's MED-EL and Swiss Sonova, the world's largest hearing aid maker * The new CEO said hearing aids with instant translation could be a hope for the future: "It's not hard to imagine that we'll one day have instant translation and if you travel as hearing-impaired in Japan you can suddenly understand the language.
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When it was discovered that I was profoundly deaf at six weeks old, my parents faced a common decision: Should they adapt themselves to their deaf child, learn sign language, and embrace deaf culture, or have their deaf child adapt to hearing culture, give her cochlear implants or hearing aids, and train her in the precarious art of lip-reading?
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"We want to … be able to provide resources that are evidence-based where parents, if they need those resources, they can come to us and we will provide them with those resources and focusing on bilingual education," he says of urging hearing parents to learn and teach their children American Sign Language even if they are going to fit their child with a cochlear implant.
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