If so, you might want to think about protecting your hearing. A research study published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene has found that only 18% of people that play the French horn actually wear hearing protection. Furthermore, of all the orchestral musicians, it is the French horn players that are at the
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University of Iowa researchers say that we can learn a lot about noise-induced hearing loss by studying the common fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. The reason: The molecular underpinnings to its hearing are roughly the same as in humans.
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Retired attorney, Christine Klessig, began wearing hearing aids 25 years ago and was recently fit with ReSound hearing instruments and wireless accessories. Despite wearing hearing aids for more than a third of her life, it wasn’t until 5 years ago that she felt that she was truly able to hear again. What changed? She discovered
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By Tammara Stender and Jennifer Groth A new trend is affecting the hearing aid market. This trend builds on the application of wireless connectivity between hearing aids and external sound sources, such as televisions, PCs, MP3 players and phones. Wireless connectivity itself is not new to the hearing aid market – but the ways it
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ReSound’s Tammara Stender recently contributed an article to the Hearing Journal’s R&D Blog on Binaural Fusion. The article talks about the philosophy behind Binaural Fusion; that the hearing aid user should remain in the driver’s seat and decide on the sound of interest, which is not the case with many wireless hearing aids. Many hearing
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Researchers at the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois have found that hearing loss may lead to permanent changes in the brain. Faculty member, Fatima Husain, who led the research said the results suggest “that functional changes due to sensory deprivation may result in long-term structural changes. However, in the case of tinnitus, surprisingly,
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As a private practice owner, you’re always looking for ways to generate more traffic and grow your business. Here are some areas to focus on based on the kinds of trends we’re seeing in the hearing healthcare industry. Traffic Generation Your goal is to drive new patients into your practice for an appointment. Your mission
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This week, we held our second Business Partner Summit, a 3 day workshop designed specifically for ReSound customers to discuss topics that will help them optimize and grow their practice. The Summit was held at the Mandarin Oriental in Las Vegas, February 29 to March 2, and centered on “The Three Pillars of a Successful
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The MarketTrak VIII research report was published in November about the prevalence of tinnitus in the United States. According to this report, the size of the tinnitus population in the US is now 30 million – about 10% of the entire population. Sergei Kochkin, PhD, Richard Tyler, PhD, and Jennifer Born present data in this
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We talked to some of our hearing professional customers to get their perspectives on the impact of having a spouse attend the appointment with the patient. Here’s what they had to say. “The spouse is critical to the process and usually the reason that the patient is there in the first place,” says Dusty Potter,
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