The preliminary results from three clinical trials administering gene therapy to address deafness from otoferlin mutations mark inspiring and incredible progress in hearing healthcare.
Eli Lilly said its experimental gene therapy restored hearing in a boy born with profound hearing loss. The results for this experimental treatment come three months after Regeneron Pharmaceuticals reported early but encouraging data for its hearing loss gene therapy.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
A hearing healthcare veteran consultant, who has significant hearing loss, describes 7 market-tested best practices. Understanding the consumer-patient journey is crucial to developing strategic priorities for companies across hearing healthcare, from hearing aids to cochlear implants to gene/drug therapy.
Some patients recognize no words at all 12 months after surgery, while others essentially have normal hearing in our analysis. This wide range of speech perception outcomes, we conclude, translates into considerable uncertainty for patients.
Strategies for combating the infiltration of a set of societal beliefs that leads to poor health outcomes is what makes anti-smoking campaigns a compelling analog on the eve of a new OTC hearing aid category.
An overlooked yet central aspect of Apple’s solution is that the AirPods Pro now integrates customized amplification with hearing protection against noise in a single device.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
A bill introduced by Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) and Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) in March would allow patients to visit an audiologist to get a hearing test to diagnose a hearing problem without first being referred by a physician or nurse practitioner.
Oticon, the company behind the Opn hearing aid, also has a hearing aid app called HearingFitness. It functions somewhat like a fitness tracker and gives users advice and encouragement about their hearing well-being.
Now that President Trump has signed the Over-The-Counter Hearing Aid Act into law, hearing companies are advancing towards the starting blocks for what's shaping up to be a new race to solve hearing loss.
Two of the hottest fields in biopharma got another boost this week, with a $32 million Series A raised by a regenerative medicine startup and a separate $40 million in financing for the treatment of liver fibrosis and NASH.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
Their efforts will most likely not reach the clinic before late 2018, but the two companies have a lot of motivation.
Decibel Therapeutics, a Third Rock-backed startup, was just launched in Boston to treat a wide range of hearing loss disorders. It just closed out a $52 million Series A.
Hearing loss may be more than frustrating millions of older adults, but it may also signal a greater risk of death, according to the results of a new study. Adults ages 70 years or older with moderate or more severe hearing impairment have a 54% increased risk of all causes of death, as compared to […]
Speech pathologist Sebastien Christian was made aware of the need for sound recognition software to make members of the deaf and hard of hearing communities aware of critical sounds like smoke alarms and sirens by a colleague. She impressed upon him the stress and insecurity of being alone without the reassurance of something that can […]
University of Washington spinout Oricula Therapeutics said today it’s secured funding and intellectual property that will allow it to move forward with developing a way to prevent hearing loss associated with a class of antibiotics called aminoglycosides. Aminoglycosides are low-cost antibiotics that have historically been highly effective in treating infections caused by gram-negative bacteria, such […]