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Well, corporations and profit is behind any significant progress, in any field. For sure the hype about CI has been pushed by the corp. and the healt systems such as the american one are prone to be influenced by that. Nevertheless, great profit is also behind HA market and it is not rare to...

I understand very well what you mean and I agree. Great part of my everyday job is getting meaning out of numbers, or viceversa, trying to translate "qualitative" concepts into numbers. I have a great experience in that and I can say that for such a complicated "system" as the hearing is and the...

It's true that stem cells technology will probably represent a wonderful new route for treatment of several pathologies, most of them being lethal. In the case of hearing losses, besides the uncertainties on when it will become a reality, we should take in mind that it won't be just putting...

Thanks john57, you gave me exactly the kind of info I was looking for. If I understood correctly, if the residual hearing on the other ear is enough, it is possible to get significant benefit, while on the other hand the bimodal hearing could be a real disadvantage if the residual hearing is...

Inthe tons of reading about CI, I've never found completely satisfactory information about the potential additional information the not-implanted ear, properly aided, could add to the hearing. In principle, if there's some decent residual hearing, it is possible to get a compensation on the low...

I hope not tobe OT. My son, 22 month old, with a profound hearing loss, is using HAs for about 4 weeks. We got the Phonak Naida V UP Jr., under suggestion of our audiologist. My impression is that things are going the right way, since we notice several improvements in his ability to catch...

I have to say thanks to everybody. You are simply nice! I think the most of Italians are used to hear mafia and Italy together in a sentence. After all mafia is really an italian invention. Personally I like the joke, after all. Nevertheless, we are very famous for many other things, food and...

Well, it wasn't easy. Now if I think back, I feel a bit stupid, 'cause it's so clear now... Basically, he's a very smart boy, able to do many more things than the mean if his age children, but besides saying "mum", he wasn't (still isn't obviously) able to speak and most of all 9 of 10 he used...

I am from Trieste, north-east, on the seaside, at the border with Slovenia, nearly 1 mile from Venice. I also have relatives from Sicily, my mom's side. I love that place!

Hi everybody! I guess I am one of the few not-Americans here, I am from Italy. Lurking the forum is helping me very much, thus I decided to register and start posting. I am the father of a cute 1.5 yr old deaf boy, Leonardo. We got the diagnosis just 5 weeks ago, our family has never had...