Americans are coming together in a campaign to encourage Congress to pass a federal tax credit to help people buy hearing aids.
To help organize the effort to have Congress pass the legislation, the Better Hearing Institute (BHI) has launched a new Web site (www.hearingaidtaxcredit.org). An excellent resource and tool [...]

5th - 11th May 2008 is Deaf Awareness Week and organisations working with deaf people across the country are inviting everyone to ‘Look At Me’. The theme aims to improve understanding of the different types of [...]

They would line up at 7 a.m., wait all day and spend their food money to get there - all to gain the ability to hear.
“It was incredible, absolutely incredible,” Ginny Smith said.
“It was overwhelming,” Rick Silverman added.
Smith and Silverman, partners from American Hearing Care in Orange Park, were referring to a four-day mission trip [...]

William Austin, founder and chief executive of Starkey Laboratories in Eden Prairie, has long been known as the Santa Claus of Hearing. Now he’s being honored as member of the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans.
The Horatio Alger award honors those who have defied adversity with hard work, courage and determination to achieve the American [...]

A company called Neuromonics believes it has developed an audio device that can treat people suffering from ringing in the ears, known as tinnitus. Using an audio player that over time changes the way it plays music and accompanying sounds, the firm already offers its service in number of clinics, reports today’s Wall Street Journal:
For [...]