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UKHCA Annual Conference

The much-anticipated UK Hearing Conservation Association (UKHCA) conference Listen Up 2022 was introduced by Clare Forshaw, Founder and Director, and endorsed by the National Hearing Conservation Association (NHCA) as its US-based international equivalent which inspired this movement. The day was...

AAA 2024 + Hear TECH Expo

Victoria Gonzalez, AuD, PhD, The University of Mississippi Medical Center. AAA 2024+HearTECH Expo in Atlanta, Georgia, proved to be yet another testament to the strength and unity of the audiology community. Nearly 3,000 passionate attendees congregated to delve into the...

Hearing4all International Symposium

Markus Meis, Senior Specialist Health Economics and Research, Cochlear Germany GmbH, Hanover, Germany. The Hearing4all International Symposium is the showcase event of the research alliance funded under Germany’s scientific excellence strategy. It presents the latest scientific results not only from...

Hearing4all International Symposium 2022

Hearing4all is a Cluster of Excellence, a large collaborative research project funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in the context of Germany’s strategy for scientific excellence. The project unites scientists from many scientific disciplines, coming from three universities and various other...

First ever World Report on Hearing

With less than three weeks to go, the countdown has begun to the launch of the first ever World Report on Hearing on World Hearing Day, 3 March 2021. Through the global launch of the report, WHO intends to reach,...

World Hearing Day 2022

On World Hearing Day 2022, WHO will focus on the importance of safe listening as a means of maintaining good hearing across the life course. In 2021, WHO launched the World report on hearing that highlighted the increasing number of people living with and at risk of hearing loss,

Global audiology during COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected, and in some areas, put a complete hold on, audiology practice around the world. In April 2020, during the peak of the pandemic for many regions, our audiology Global Ambassadors provided their reports from their...

VCCA2022

The 3rd Virtual Conference on Computational Audiology was hosted online by Hearing4All from the University of Oldenburg and Hannover Medical School. With five keynote talks, four special sessions and over 500 registered participants, this yearly event keeps growing. To accommodate...

OTC hearing aids: where are we now?

The ‘Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Act’ of 2017 set in motion plans for a long-debated shift in the hearing care market. In 2021, the FDA released draft guidance which will allow hearing aids in the US to be sold direct to...

HEAL 2024: Hearing Across the Lifespan

This year around 350 people representing 40 countries attended, with about 290 oral and poster presentations. Special sessions addressed a range of global challenges, including Precision Diagnostics and Therapy Across the Lifespan, Empowering healthcare professionals in supporting older adults with comorbid hearing and cognitive impairment Listening effort and Ecological Momentary Assessment.

Ida Institute course makes tele-audiology easier and better

The COVID-19 pandemic provided hearing care professionals an opportunity to review the provision of hearing services. We hear from Lise Lotte Bundesen, Managing Director of the Ida Institute, about the potential of tele-audiology and how it can help to maintain...