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I was reading a professional magazine this morning while I was drinking my coffee. I have to admit that I generally do not read professional magazines. I see all the research articles with the wonderful graphs and statistics and my eyes glaze over. I may read the intro and the conclusion. But, reading the actual…
Ear-level electronic devices are on shifting ground. FDA aside, what defines a “hearing aid” these days? They are sophisticated, computer-based, ear-level, binaural, Bluetooth-enabled devices with storage and automatic programming capability. They’re poised for far more than amplification, noise reduction, and feedback control. If you accept that functional definition of today’s hearing aids, what’s left to…
Dr. Metz has been a practicing audiologist for over 45 years, having taught in several university settings and, in partnership with Dr. Bob Sandlin, providing continuing education for audiology and dispensing in California for over two decades. Mike owned and operated a private practice in Southern California for over 30 years. He has been professionally…
Patent activity in the hearing aid industry continues to grow and grow more interesting. We’re not Google or Apple, which ranked #11 and #13 for number of US patents in 2013 and are projected to rank higher in 2014. But, our industry is hanging in there even as the competition heats up for Smart wearables and augmented…
David H. Kirkwood looks back on the life and career of beloved and revered audiologist Marion Downs. Marion, who largely invented the field of pediatric audiology, died on November 13 in her native Minnesota at the age of 100.
Soundhawk, a high-tech start-up company with an impressive pedigree, began taking advance orders last week on its web site for a $279 “smart listening system.” According to Soundhawk’s founder, Rodney Perkins, MD, an otologist at Stanford University School of Medicine and founder of the California Ear Institute, the new system “is the culmination of a lifetime of…
A recent study out of Switzerland essentially posed the question “How much impact does a specialty vestibular clinic have on the correct diagnosis and effective management of patients complaining of dizziness or vertigo?” They attempted to answer this question by looking at the suspected diagnosis made by the referring Primary Care Physician (PCP), and comparing…
Ever wonder what an octave band is? Alberto Behar has the answer.
It is almost as if music has something in common with everything − psychology, physiology, acoustics, engineering, most areas of the arts, and now the lowly spondee – Marshall Chasin tells us why.
Via our friends as HearingHealthMatters.org, Carol Lau tells us how we can maximize auditory training effectiveness.