Twenty years ago the only bionic ear belonged to the Six Million Dollar man. The bionic ear, or cochlear implant, has come a long way. In 1998 alone, over 3,000 people worldwide were given a cochlear ...

You will be redirected to our submission process. Cochlear implantation (CI) is the state-of-the-art rehabilitation intervention for individuals with severe-to-profound sensorineural hearing loss.

A pioneering UK clinical trial injects stem cells during surgery to regrow auditory nerves, offering a biological cure for ...

Cole Jefferson was born deaf and wears cochlear implants to hear. That hasn’t stopped him from contributing to Johns Hopkins ...

In a worldwide first, a one-and-done gene therapy has been approved to treat a form of hereditary deafness. Many of the ...

Heather Porter, 44, recently graduated from Grand Canyon University in Phoenix with her master's degree in clinical mental ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Tammy Snyder was in her 40s by the time she noticed she had hearing loss. “With my husband, I always would sit and we’d talk and stuff, and I tell him, quit mumbling,” ...

Cochlear implantation has evolved into a sophisticated intervention for restoring hearing in individuals with severe-to-profound sensorineural loss. Successful implantation relies on a detailed ...

Twelve years after failing his newborn hearing test, Ryder Boen is experiencing sound in a whole new way. The fifth grader from Chelsea, Oklahoma, was diagnosed as an infant with moderately severe to ...

Dear Eric: I lost my hearing in one ear and my nephew who’s an audiologist suggested a cochlear device might help get some of my hearing back. It was a successful surgery. Now I wear my hair a little ...