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Open fit hearing aids
Open fit hearing aids are similar in style to BTE aids in that a shell site above your ear and ...
Digital Hearing aids
What is a digital hearing aid? What does it do and how does it work? What is a digital hearing aid? Very ...
Buying your first hearing aid
If you are not hearing as much as you would like and you think you may benefit from a hearing ...
Thoughts
Second hand hearing aids?Why is there no established market for second hand hearing aids? Given the high price of a new aid, you would think that a cheaper second-hand model would be very tempting to a lot of people.
It’s not so different from buying a second hand car
The second-hand car market is huge. People have the option of [...]
News
BAHAs help to overcome single-sided deafnessAlthough Jim McGinn of Wheaton, Ill, is completely deaf in his right ear, he still can hear from that side.
A sound processor McGinn wears just behind his right ear converts sound waves into tiny vibrations that move through his skull. The vibrations are detected by his good left ear, so it sounds to McGinn like [...]
Information
Take your hearing aids out, hear moreYou could hear more by taking your hearing aids out.
How does that work? Well, I was in a meeting yesterday, sat around a table with seven other people - after a while I realised that I wasn’t hearing several of them as well as I normally would be. I did a quick check that the [...]
Charity
Donate used hearing aids in Palm Beach CountyThe Hearing Aid Bank, a program of the Deaf Service Center of Palm Beach County, provides used and recycled hearing aids free to those in financial need.
Many people have the misconception that hearing aids cannot be re-used. That is basically true and there are three good reasons why a person should not use another’s hearing [...]
Industry
HearAtLast at Wal-MartFrom a HearAtLast press release:
HearAtLast Holdings Inc. is pleased to announce that it has finalized the next phase of its expansion plans. Wal-Mart Canada will include HearAtLast operations in additional supercentre and discount store [...]
Buying
America Hears: A customer’s viewDavid from Hearing Mojo has blogged about his recent purchase from America Hears.
America Hears is a vendor that manufacturers and distributes hearing aids via the Internet. You send them an up-to-date audiogram and impressions of your ears and they will manufacture and mail back to you the hearing aid model of your choice. You are [...]
Living with hearing aids
Take your hearing aids out, hear moreYou could hear more by taking your hearing aids out.
How does that work? Well, I was in a meeting yesterday, sat around a table with seven other people - after a while I realised that I wasn’t hearing several of them as well as I normally would be. I did a quick check that the [...]
Science
Zebrafish can regain lost hearing Hearing rarely returns once a human loses the ability to hear.
However, when lower vertebrates such as birds, reptiles, fish and amphibians lose the ability to hear, they are able to regenerate hearing cells, called hair cells, and regain their hearing.
The cells are called hair cells because they are tiny, hair-like projections found in [...]