A cochlear implant is an electronic device implanted in the ear's inner side to improve speech understanding. It does not restore hearing; rather, it enhances it. A cochlear implant specialist can ...

Cochlear implants help improve hearing for individuals with profound hearing loss. Medicare covers cochlear implants for individuals who meet eligibility requirements. Cochlear implants help people ...

Hearing loss doesn't just affect how people hear the world - it can also change how they connect with it. A new study from the USC Caruso Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, part of ...

University of Iowa researchers have defined how people recognize words. In a new study with people who use cochlear implants to hear, the researchers identified three main approaches that people with ...

Dear Doctors: I am 45 years old and have sudden sensorineural hearing loss that is significant. There is no known cause. I’m told that the only option now or in the future is a cochlear implant. How ...

More than a million people around the world rely on cochlear implants (CIs) to hear. CI effectiveness is generally evaluated through speech recognition tests, and despite how widespread they are, CI ...

Envoy Medical Inc. COCH on Wednesday said it has completed enrollment of its pivotal clinical trial for the investigational fully implanted Acclaim cochlear implant for hearing loss. The company ...

Ten-month-old Amir Hayden sits on his mother’s lap inside a sound-proof booth at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals audiology clinic in Oakland, as audiologist Sarah Coulthurst, MS, takes him through a ...

Videos of deaf children reacting to the activation of their cochlear implants have been an ongoing viral trend, for almost as long as people have been uploading videos of themselves and those close to ...

Vidhita uses a cochlear implant. She cannot hear with her ears, so she cannot use a conventional stethoscope. But a cochlear implant connected to a wireless stethoscope would help her keep up with her ...

Radio Head Gal is both the alter-ego of TED speaker Rebecca Knill and the name of her new memoir. In it, she documents her life as a deaf person before and after she received cochlear implants. In ...