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Even today there is improvement still being made with the new Cochlear Nucleus 5 implant over the Freedom implant. I already spoke with a few users that have switch to the Nucleus 5 from wearing the freedom and they are getting better results from the CNC words test and one I have known is...

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It can not be as normal from the start since my high frequencies above 5k has not been simulated in a long time due to limitations on hearing aid technology not givinng giving much output not gain at those frequencies. It took some time for those nerves that have been arrophyied to come back...

Her Blog states that she has ossification in the left ear with no hearing at all that she wants to try to implant with a CI. I do not see how stem cells are going to work in an ossified cochlea. Insurance will pay about $50,00o not $100,000. Sounds like she made up her mind.

I also have ordered hearing aids on-line mostly analog aids. There is American hears on the web that sells digital aids with a programmer called Virtual Office that you could use to program the aids. Members of Hard of Hearing Advocates seems to like their service...

I use lipreading all my life and am very good at it but there is many situations that I could not use it, like in group settings and in school and in college. Some people are very easy to lipread and some are not. I was rated at a very high level lipreader when I was at N.T.I.D. but I was...

they both are going to take time, like studies.

cPanel While it is great to have high hopes there are also setbacks. The latest news I just read states http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/health/research/09drug.html What is interesting about this study was that the placebo effect was throwing the positive results of the stem drug off...

Yes the CI manufactures are looking at various coating for the electrode array either to reduce trauma, like lubrication or to help preserve cells. This is the same approach being taken for stents used in heart arteries. The research is still ongoing.

As I was saying in a pervious post hearing near 0db is not a goal with some manufactures but downward expansion so that you do not hear the low level sounds that would be overwhelming your speech understanding for some.

You take Ph4sius for example and he does the opposite of transposition. He has a new hearing aid that since it has a better feedback reduction system that allows him to her the higher frequncies, 2000 extra Hz of amplifiable frequencies as he was saying. If I was in the market for new hearing...

I read her Blog and the last entry more than 2 years ago stated that the doctors finally saw that the implant is failing and the manufacture has agreed to replace it free of charge and she was planning on getting to happen and she will post part two of this. Her pervious post before than was...

Cochlear will make a formal announcement on Sept. 8

Not all counties have a rosy picture of success for stem cell research like South Korea for example. S.Korea seeks 4-year prison term for stem cell fraud | Science | Reuters

This article only mention about two clinical trials, one for age related blindness, and the USA one for spinal cord injuries and that seems to be a good focus to start on.

Phonak still have Analog aids as shown here. Phonak hearing systems - Analog Technology Phonak hearing systems - Analog What were you looking at? I also check with a internet provider and they are still selling the Phonak analog hearing aids as well.

Yes the Navy is very interrested in N-Acetyl Cysteine an amino acid that helps the body to produce glutathione which in turn can reduce Noise-Induced Hearing Loss' A Magic Pill? Compound Could Mediate Noise-Induced Hearing Loss "A Magic Pill? Compound Could Mediate Noise-Induced Hearing...

What the first two articles are talking about is microphone noise floor. For the whole device it is called the signal-to-noise ratio or S/N. In practice it is usually people with a mild hearing loss that can hear the very low level noise that is coming from the microphone pre-amplifier to the...