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Hearing Care, cognitive decline and dementia: A public health challenge, or an opportunity for healthy ageing?

22 October 2019
Brian Lamb, OBE and Sue Archbold PhD, Hon LLD A new document from The Ear Foundation, launched at European Association of Cochlear Implant Users (EURO-CIU) annual general meeting in Poland, reviews the latest evidence on the association between hearing loss,...

First ever World Report on Hearing

11 February 2021
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

7 February 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,

Tinnitus in middle-age: prevalence and incidence

1 March 2015 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Tinnitus
Population-based studies of tinnitus provide crucial underpinning evidence which highlights the need for further research on the effective diagnosis and clinical management of this heterogenous condition. Furthermore, such studies provide evidence of the burden of this condition both on the...

Karl Strom Joins HearingTracker as Editor in Chief

19 May 2022 | Company Profiles, Recruitment & Personnel
HearingTracker has appointed Karl Strom as its new Editor in Chief.

Independent lab tests and rates hearing aids

5 February 2023
HearAdvisor is a new audio testing lab designed to understand how the performance of hearing aids differs.

HEAL 2024: Hearing Across the Lifespan

6 June 2024 -8 June 2024
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.

Global audiology during COVID-19

26 June 2020 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - 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...

Screening for hearing loss with mHealth solutions

1 March 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
With the number of people suffering from hearing loss growing all the time, the need for early detection and intervention is imperative. De Wet Swanepoel discusses two examples of mHealth possibilities for hearing screening which, as a low cost solution,...

Genetics and the newborn hearing screen: the future is now

1 July 2021 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
Eliot Shearer shares the progress being made with newborn hearing screening 60 years on from where it started, and future directions for identifying hearing loss using physiologic, genetic and cCMV screening. Newborn screening had its birth in the early 1960s,...

OTC hearing aids: where are we now?

2 September 2022 | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
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...

Access to and uptake of cochlear implants in the UK

1 June 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Paediatrics
Assessing demands on cochlear implant (CI) services is very important for both commissioners and clinicians in anticipating clinical need and funding requirements. Commercial CI’s were introduced in the late 1980s. Initial funding was from charitable sources. The first major advance...