Medical technology company MED-EL announced Thursday that the US Food and Drug Administration has approved expanding the use of its Synchrony cochlear implants to children as young as 7 months who ...

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ALEXANDRA: WE NORMALLY THINK OF COCHLEAR IMPLANTS AS BEING FOR CHILDREN, BUT MORE AND MORE, ADULTS ARE GETTING THEM, AND THOSE ADULTS SAY THEY ARE WORTH IT. >> I HAD TO HAVE PEOPLE CONSTANTLY REPEAT ...

A cochlear implant may benefit those with severe hearing loss. Implanted in the cochlea, it has many advantages, but there are also drawbacks. The cochlea is the spiral-shaped organ in your inner ear.

MADISON -- Nature has outfitted us with a pair of ears for good reason: having two ears enhances hearing. University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists are now examining whether this is also true for the ...

Cochlear implantation carried various benefits over hearing aids for young children with deafness and early development impairment (EDI), a prospective cohort study found. In children with low ...

The study reported long-term outcomes of the largest number of children with ASD who received a cochlear implant, with mean follow-up of 10.5 years. Findings were published in the journal Otology & ...

For many doctors, cochlear implants would have been an unconventional approach for a child with Down syndrome. “Traditionally, developmentally delayed patients haven’t been seen as ideal candidates ...

A four-year-old boy from Oklahoma, born with congenital CMV, experiences the world of sound for the first time after receiving cochlear implants.