Category: Cochlear Implants
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
It was on May 1, 1956, that Dr John Shea performed the first successful cochlear implant surgery.
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Monday, April 23rd, 2012
Wyly Wade is suing
Cochlear Limited in
US court because the Australian company's implants failed his daughter. Cochlear recalled the Nucleus CI500 implant just one month after both of his daughter's implants quit working and had to be surgically removed, apparently because of a moisture problem in the device. Wade wants class action status for his complaint, which says the failure rate of the devices is 2.4%.
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Friday, April 20th, 2012
The BBC reports on the first use of the "vibrant soundbridge" implant in
Scotland in an article
here.
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Friday, April 20th, 2012
The BBC reports on the first use of the "vibrant soundbridge" implant in
Scotland in an article
here.
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Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
A federal court in DC has ruled that public schools do not have to help with the cost of cochlear implant maintenance. Two couples had sued the
Education Department, claiming not to do so is a violation of Congressional requirements that children be offered "audiology services" by schools. The couples wanted schools to continue offering implant reprogramming. Many school have stopped providing this maintenance after federal educators decided it did not fall under federal requirements.
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Sunday, April 15th, 2012
More than 8 out of 10 children who are or were hearing impaired now
attend their local schools. Just a couple decades ago, 8 out of 10 hearing impaired children attended deaf schools.
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Friday, April 13th, 2012
Researchers in Iowa are working on a hybrid cochlear implant with an $11 million grant. The Iowa Cochlear Implant Clinical Research Center at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics hopes its 20 physicians and researchers can create a shorter electrode with the money from the National Institutes of Health.
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2012
A new generation of infrared laser-based cochlear implants will offer users better hearing than typical implants can do, according to Mark Bendett of Lockheed Martin Aculight. His company's laser-based technology stimulates inner ear cells with heat rather than electricity, which the current models do. Both models use the same batteries, microphones and signal processors. But currently used implants produce only up to eight frequencies. The laser implant can stimulate the cochlear nerves create dozens of separate sounds in different frequencies. Several research teams at
US universities are working on similar technology.
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Monday, April 9th, 2012
There's a big increase in China's cochlear implant surgeries in the last couple of year. The Australian company Cochlear says, during the first 14 years it has operated in China, between 1995 and 2009, it only sold 4,000 devices. But since then, the company has sold 6,000. Authorities estimate there are some 5000 implant surgeries each year in China. The devices are supplied by Cochlear, Sonova, MED-EL and a small, Chinese company called Hangzhou Nurotron Biotechnology. Nurotron's cochlear sells its implants at about half the price of the other companies.
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