Summer is a season for social events, backyard barbecues, family vacations, and long conversations with friends. But for the ...

A Louisville boy recently became the first patient in the United States to receive a MED-EL FLEX34 cochlear implant, which is designed for people with an unusually large cochlea — the part of the ear ...

(CNN) — Ben Summers lights up with a smile the moment he talks about the “Batman” theme song or the afternoons he spends playing the piano at his grandmother’s house. Just a few years ago, Ben could ...

Researchers developed a prototype of an implantable microphone for a cochlear implant. Their device, which senses the movement of the ear drum in the inner ear, performed as well as commercial hearing ...

The John J. Pershing VA Medical Center will offer a cochlear implant programming center starting June 17.

A cochlear implant is a device that stimulates the spiral ganglion cells of the auditory nerve to restore sensorineural hearing loss 1. It converts sounds into an electrical signal and delivers it ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People over age 65 are likely to see significant although less pronounced improvement in hearing from cochlear implants than their younger adult counterparts, a new study ...

Hearing loss doesn't just affect how people hear the world—it can also change how they connect with it. "We found that adults with hearing loss who used hearing aids or cochlear implants were more ...

Five scientists and engineers — Graeme Clark, Erwin Hochmair, Ingeborg Hochmair, Michael Merzenich, and Blake Wilson — have ...

Cochlear implants, tiny electronic devices that can provide a sense of sound to people who are deaf or hard of hearing, have helped improve hearing for more than a million people worldwide, according ...