Beyond Newborn Screening: Four Essential Factors in Congenital Disease Care
These recommendations on how to care for babies who fail newborn screenings offer valuable lessons for public health officials, clinicians, and families.
Overcoming Hearing Healthcare Barriers to Realize Gene Therapy Promise
The preliminary results from three clinical trials administering gene therapy to address deafness from otoferlin mutations mark inspiring and incredible progress in hearing healthcare.
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The Top 6 Best Analytics Tools for Health Care Revenue in 2025
Finding the best analytics tools for health care revenue management can revolutionize operational processes. Compare the leading software options to discover helpful team resources.
Eli Lilly Sounds Off as Early Data Show How Gene Therapy Can Restore Hearing
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.
How to Leverage the Patient Journey for Market Strategy Development
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.
Outcome uncertainty suppresses patient adoption of cochlear implants
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.
Spurring hearing aid adoption with strategies from anti-smoking campaigns
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.
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The Top-Rated Orthopedic Surgery Centers in the Houston Area and Beyond
Discover Houston's best orthopedic surgery centers and what features — from personalized treatment plans to rehabilitation services — make these top providers stand out in their industry.
Why consumers should make noise about Apple’s hearing health offering
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.
Senate bill zeroes in on hearing aids, audiologist reimbursement
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’s hearing aid app serves as fitness tracker for the ears
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.
With OTC Hearing Aid Act signed into law, industry should focus on patient engagement
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.
Navigating The Right Steps For Your Healthcare Startup
This webinar will explore how a banking platform approach could be the resource for your company.
Two new Series A rounds inject $72M into regenerative medicine and NASH
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.
Two biotech startups tackle hearing loss
Their efforts will most likely not reach the clinic before late 2018, but the two companies have a lot of motivation.
Third Rock hearing loss startup Decibel Therapeutics launches with $52M
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 Linked to Increased Risk of Death
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 […]
For deaf and hard of hearing communities, sound awareness app developer raises $1.45M
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 […]