It was on May 1, 1956, that Dr John Shea performed the first successful cochlear implant surgery.
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Redefining What It Means To Be Deaf?
Read NPR's report on cochlear implants here.
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Implant Suit
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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Soundbridge mplant
The BBC reports on the first use of the "vibrant soundbridge" implant in Scotland in an article here.
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Soundbridge Implant
The BBC reports on the first use of the "vibrant soundbridge" implant in Scotland in an article here.
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Ruling on Implant Maintenance
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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The Impact of Implants on Schooling
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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Hybrid Implant
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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Laser-based Cochlear Implant
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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Implants in China
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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