Health Writer04 February 2021Maybe you find yourself asking people to repeat themselves more often or notice that you’re nudging the TV volume louder than in the past. Or perhaps you’ve seen a family member having these issues. In any of these situations, it’s natural to wonder if hearing loss is to blame. Deciding whether to see an audiologist and find out for sure, however, can be a big decision. There’s the stigma and ageism that still swirl around hearing loss and can keep us from taking that next step. And then there’s also the current challenge of going on appointments during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Health WriterUpdated 04 February 2021There’s no doubt that COVID-19 has triggered fear in all of us. “Will I get it?” and “How will I fare?” are questions that have flickered through most of our minds at one time or another. Yet as more people contract the illness and survive it, we discover new concerns, like the symptoms that afflict people known as “long-haulers” — those who cope with symptoms weeks or months after they recover.

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Doctor of AudiologyUpdated 23 December 2020The long-awaited missing feature—Headphone Accommodations in Transparency Mode—is now available (as of the Sept 14 release of AirPods Pro firmware version 3A283). After upgrading, please restart your devices to enable the new functionality.

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Doctor of Audiology03 June 2020As COVID-19 wreaks global havoc on the hearing care industry, audiology practices around the world are trying to understand whether (and how) to incorporate virtual audiological care into their service offerings. Earlier today, the British Society of Hearing Aid Audiologists (BSHAA) aired a fantastic Zoom meeting with guests Professor De Wet Swanepoel, Paul Dybala, PhD, and Mark Truong, which explored the viability of incorporating virtual care into a best practice model of audiology.

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Guest Author16 March 2020Like many of us in response to COVID-19, your home is now your office and/or classroom. If you’re deaf or hard of hearing like me, you may be scrambling to figure out the best way to communicate in this virtual space.

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Hearing health advocate10 February 2020"When do you want to come back?" the receptionist asked me in a voice barely above a whisper. Yes, the waiting room was quiet, but I still struggled to hear her. "When do I want to come in?" I repeated in a questioning way to make sure I heard her correctly.

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Content Director07 January 2020A new research report predicts that the market for “hearables”—intelligent earbuds, headsets and entry-level hearing aids—will grow to $80 billion by 2025.

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Content Director05 January 2020Visitors to CES 2020 this week will be able to see—and hear—how artificial intelligence (AI) can alleviate the infamous “cocktail party” problem that afflicts millions of people with hearing loss. Singular Hearing’s HeardThat app turns your iPhone or Android smartphone into a hearing assistant with software that identifies and enhances a speaker’s voice while effectively eliminating background noise.

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Content Director29 October 2019Apple’s new $249 AirPods Pro wireless earbuds look very similar to the old $149 AirPods; but the new Pro model is packed with advanced technologies—including active noise cancellation, a new hearing “transparency” mode, and adaptive equalization—which deliver more than an extra hundred dollars’ worth of value. With sophisticated features long associated with more expensive high-end headsets and hearing aids, AirPods Pro positions Apple well against several other new entrants in the emerging “intelligent earbuds” market.

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Content Director03 September 2019Google's long-awaited update to its Android smartphone operating system is finally here. As expected, it's chock-full of major accessibility improvements for people with hearing loss and hearing aids. And it's already providing wireless streaming directly to hearing aids from Google's Android Pixel phones.

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Content DirectorUpdated 09 August 2019If you've watched Adam Savage blow things up on his MythBusters TV show or put things together on his Tested YouTube channel, you may have heard him mention he wears hearing aids. In fact, one of the biggest myths he has tried to bust is the idea that hearing aids make you feel old. Instead, he'll tell you that hearing aids "freaking changed my life."

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Content Director09 March 2019Advanced Bionics is opening up the world of wireless, hands-free iPhone and Android smartphone connectivity to its cochlear implant patients for the first time. Its new Naída CI Connect receiver turns any Naída CI Q90 sound processor into a wireless Bluetooth headset.

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