NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Music class may help improve certain types of sound perception in deaf children who have cochlear implants, a new study hints. Cochlear implants are small electronic ...

MINNEAPOLIS — It's a story with a very unexpected ending, between a guitar player and a clarinet player who are hard of hearing. A medical device brought the two musical strangers into harmony in more ...

After swapping hearing aids for a cochlear implant, Sam Swiller's taste in music shifted dramatically, from grunge rock to folk. Now scientists... Deaf Jam: Experiencing Music Through A Cochlear ...

Oticon Medical’s ears must be burning after parent company Demant struck a deal to divest the implant business in a sale to fellow hearing technology developer Cochlear. Copenhagen-based Demant will ...

Like many other kids around Halloween, 7-year-old Landon Brown is dressed up as a doctor for Halloween. But Brown's costume is extra special. He is dressed up as a pint-size Dr. Jay Rubinstein, with ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — When Rachel Skergan was diagnosed with congenital deafness shortly after she was born, her parents made a choice that would alter her life: She would not be taught to sign with her ...

Cochlear implants are among the most successful neural prostheses on the market. These artificial ears have allowed nearly 1 million people globally with severe to profound hearing loss to either ...

In a blog post published on Wednesday, Amazon’s Tomas Kellner wrote about a significant update to the Seattle-homed company’s Fire TV software. Based on the open source Audio Streaming for Hearing ...

The use of cochlear implants to treat children and adults with severe sensorineural hearing loss has made "incredible progress" over recent years, according to Christopher Bohr, MD, PhD, director of ...