Of course, we can sit in the local hotel — but it takes eight hours to charge. This is specialised equipment', says mother ...

The Medical University of South Carolina will be the first clinical trial site in the country to test a new kind of cochlear ...

The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) is one of seven sites nationwide testing a new type of cochlear implant that has no external wires or components.

A Massachusetts couple is celebrating after their 10-month-old daughter, Charlie, who was born deaf due to Usher syndrome, heard for the first time thanks to cochlear implants.

Research: Rehabilitation of human hearing with a totally implantable cochlear implant: a feasibility study. Image Credit: decade3d - anatomy online / Shutterstock Scientists have developed a ...

"A new adventure of having to get a cochlear implant. I was scared. But once I met Dr. Sweeney and Dr. Schadt, I knew there was nothing to worry about. I have never in my life met such supporting ...

If you wear cochlear implants, sound doesn’t enter through ... The trick is that he used replacement battery covers and then grafted earbud holders (called EARBUDi) to them using one of our ...

Candidacy for implantation is determined with a special battery of hearing tests under specific ... and concurrent medical disease. After surgery for cochlear implantation, implant programming is ...

The Carver's did as so many have done over recent decades. They turned to the talented doctors and researchers of the Cochlear Implant Program at University of Iowa Health Care in Iowa City.

Pulses of light restored hearing in gerbils. Could that lead to higher-tech cochlear implants? Could light one day be used to restore hearing? To try to answer that question, a team of German ...