Archive for January, 2006

2006 Sellers Home Energy Inefficiencies Can Sour Buyers
… during their home searches. "From my experience and hearing client reports as they look for seasonal homes …

Pixel Ad Website Launched to Help Stay-at-Home Moms, Families With High Medical Bills and Other Char
… launching the first website to offer aid to some of these groups, and …

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Pixel Ad Website Launched to Help Stay-at-Home Moms, Families With High Medical Bills and Other Char
… launching the first website to offer aid to some of these groups, and …

2006 Sellers Home Energy Inefficiencies Can Sour Buyers
… during their home searches. "From my experience and hearing client reports as they look for seasonal homes …

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Isle of Wight County Press - By Richard Wright AN 11-year-old schoolgirl whose lessons have been ruined by the theft of her teaching deaf-aid has appealed for its safe return. The transmitter, a crucial piece of equipment costing more than 3,000, was stolen in a break-in at

Kia Puts Some Zip Into Its Rio
Hartford Courant - The Kia Rio has been redesigned and repowered for 2006, filling the need for new looks in the low-cost automotive parade as motorists seek better mileage for their daily commute. Although the plain Jane version, the base sedan, can be bought for

Public company news
St. Paul Pioneer Press - ADC Telecommunications (Nasdaq: ADCT): The network-equipment maker opened a new manufacturing plant in Brno, Czech Republic, to serve its customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. ADC is located in a temporary facility in Brno that employs

Musical medicine
Corpus Christi Caller - Alice Aransas Pass Beeville Bishop Calallen Corpus Christi Ingleside Kingsville Louisville Port Aransas Portland Robstown Taft Victoria “Right now, my favorite guy is “Jelly Roll” Morton. I m a big fan, but no one will know who that is. He s a jazz

Hearing aids help pave the way
Shreveport Times - Speak softly. Be careful what you say. I can hear you. All the way across the room. Even if you are whispering. I’m wearing hearing aids! They work so precisely that I am privy to the conversations of folks several rows over. A while back, a hearing

MRI Better Diagnostic Tool For Cochlear Ear Implants
Medical News Today - Magnetic resonance imaging is a better diagnostic tool for cochlear ear implants than the more commonly used high-resolution computed tomography, a UT Southwestern study shows. A cochlear implant, sometimes called a “bionic ear,” allows patients with

An address of distinction in Laguna Beach
Riverside Press Enterprise - The most straightforward thing about 230 Forest Avenue is its name. Special to The Press-Enterprise Chef and owner Marc A. Cohen gives an exotic twist to California cuisine at 230. That’s the address of the 11-year-old Laguna Beach restaurant and bar

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Bausch & Lomb Delays Filing 4Q Earnings
Houston Chronicle, United States - 16 hours ago… It employs 12,400 people worldwide. The company sold its sunglasses, animal research and hearing-aid businesses in 1999 to refocus on eye care. …

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2006 Sellers Home Energy Inefficiencies Can Sour Buyers
… during their home searches. "From my experience and hearing client reports as they look for seasonal homes …

Pixel Ad Website Launched to Help Stay-at-Home Moms, Families With High Medical Bills and Other Char
… launching the first website to offer aid to some of these groups, and …

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African-Made, Solar-Powered Hearing Aid
WorldChanging - 11 hours agoThe SolarAid is a hearing aid designed and built by Godisa Technologies, a Botswana company founded to make low-cost hearing aids for the developing world. …

Widex opens hearing aid centre in Pune
Business Standard, India - 19 hours agoWidex India, the world s leading digital hearing aids manufacturers, opened its second exclusive hearing and speech therapy centre- Senso Hearing Centre, in …

Charged up over battery disposal?
Sacramento Bee,  USA - 22 hours ago… The ban targets virtually every kind of household battery, used to operate devices ranging from toys to radios to hearing aids - AA, AAA, C cells, D cells and …

Assistive Technology: Past, Present and Future
SBWire (press release), WI - 19 hours ago… Provide assistance with hearing or visual limitations such as flashing light system for the doorbell, hearing aids and closed caption decoders for TV. …

Granddaughter enjoys new world of hearing
Daily News - Galveston County, TX - 5 hours ago… with a laugh. She was reporting the hearing of noises to tell me she had gotten her hearing aids and they were working. Fans of …

‘Too connected’
Bowling Green News, OH - 5 hours ago… The radio frequency energy (RF) emitted from cell phones can stop pacemakers, render hearing aids useless, interfere with a vehicle’s electronics and set off …

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Deafness soaring among soldiers, study finds
National Post, Canada - 1 hour ago… That’s the nature of the business,” said Gerry Wharton, a retired infantry major who wears two hearing aids and receives a disability pension, the result of …

Kathy Walsh Nufer column: Help for those ‘left out of conversation …
Appleton Post Crescent,  USA - 14 minutes ago… to having poor hearing in later years, exacerbated the downfall of my auditory senses,” she said, adding that she got her first hearing aids in her early 30s. …

What is this fifth disease everybody s talking about?
The Herald, UK - 8 hours ago… it. It causes gradual hearing loss and tinnitus. In the early stages of the disease, hearing aids are all that are needed. When …

Hi-tech help for babies with hearing problems
Gulf Daily News, Bahrain - 12 hours ago… “With these children, if they are detected early on we can perform surgery, or give them hearing aids and this will help them greatly because hearing …

In the market for a face lift
phillyBurbs.com, PA - 22 hours agoIn one trip to the Quakertown Farmers Market, shoppers can find everything from health foods to hearing aids, pianos to poultry, seafood to shoe repair, and …

Organization aids people with hearing difficulties
News Journal, TX - 5 hours ago… The organization’s second program offers hearing aids to residents who qualify based on their income. Clients who qualify for hearing …

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Pixel Ad Website Launched to Help Stay-at-Home Moms, Families With High Medical Bills and Other Char
… launching the first website to offer aid to some of these groups, and …

2006 Sellers Home Energy Inefficiencies Can Sour Buyers
… during their home searches. "From my experience and hearing client reports as they look for seasonal homes …

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A Little Bit Louder, Please
Standard-Speaker, PA - 3 hours ago… after the traumatic concert), with a variety of strategies and interventions, including sign language, lip reading, double hearing aids and, eventually …

Assistive Technology: Past, Present and Future
PR Leap (press release), CA - 23 hours ago… Provide assistance with hearing or visual limitations such as flashing light system for the doorbell, hearing aids and closed caption decoders for TV. …

Though alternatives exist, ear dryer has pluses
Fort Wayne News Sentinel, IN - 20 hours ago… the device. Patients with hearing aids reported no more difficulty wearing the aids resulting from moisture or infections. The dryer …

Twists and Turns/Alan Sidorov
Winnipeg Free Press (subscription), Canada - 22 hours ago… a few years. He has cornered the market on some high-tech hearing aids, and is likely to soon be a very wealthy man. Failing that …

ASHA Advises: If You ‘Take One For The Team’ For This Year’s Super …
PR Newswire (press release), NY - 19 hours ago… Audiologists specialize in preventing and assessing hearing disorders as well as providing audiologic treatment including hearing aids. …

Hi-tech aids that can make life much better
Belfast Telegraph, United Kingdom - 18 hours ago… Last week I wrote about the success of the new digital hearing aids and the way they have transformed communication. The report …

Noise Dangers Is anybody listening?
Richmond Times Dispatch, VA - 42 minutes ago… to the National Institutes of Health. Four million people in the United States use hearing aids. Dr. Aristides Sismanis, chief of …

VA doctors help wife lift spirits of her husband
Villages Daily Sun, FL - 19 hours ago… His hearing was damaged severely due to more than 30 years of service in the military, and his current hearing aids were several years old and almost useless. …

The emergence of social enterprise
Financial Express, India - 12 hours ago… locates and funds social projects across the villages of Asia, Central America and Africa, from microcredit to waste recycling to hearing aids for the poor. …

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Manufacturers still mine export markets
Age - Despite Australia’s small market, exporters punch well above their weight on the global stage, writes Tim Harcourt. DO AUSTRALIAN manufacturers have a future? Well, if you were to ask the manufacturers, you would find that they think they do

Granny declines enlistment invite
Denton Record-Chronicle - She hasn’t done a pushup in ages. But that didn’t keep Uncle Sam from offering Lillye England up to $20,000 to join the Army. The hitch: She’s 87. Mrs. England, a west Oak Cliff grandmother, received a personalized invitation from the U.S. Army

Baby Noor’s surgery
Atlanta Journal Constitution - The entry titled “Iraqi girl’s kin praise God after good news from surgeons,” and any of the comments about it. After surgeons delivered good news from the operating room Monday morning about 3-month-old Noor al-Zahra, a wave of relief washed over

Physical Therapy Helps Hearing
WLS - January 11, 2006 - About 28 million Americans suffer from hearing loss. As baby boomers reach retirement age starting in 2010, this number is expected to rapidly climb and nearly double by the year 2030. The prevalence of hearing loss increases with

Daily Briefing
Asheville Citizen-Times - RUTHERFORDTON U.S. Rep. Charles Taylor, R-Brevard, said Tuesday he has obtained $2.6 million from the federal defense budget for a company with a manufacturing plant here to develop defense products. The appropriations earmark will allow 3TEX to

Grandmother, 87, declines Army enlistment invite
Bryan-College Station Eagle - She hasn’t done a pushup in ages. But that didn’t keep Uncle Sam from offering Lillye England up to $20,000 to join the Army. The hitch: She’s 87. England, a west Oak Cliff grandmother, received a personalized invitation from the U.S. Army Recruiting

Ear Canal Infection
Health 24 - Chronic otitis externa can be caused by a bacterial infection, but it is more likely to be caused by chronic dermatitis of the ear canal. People with chronic skin conditions such as eczema, psoriasis, or seborrheic dermatitis are more prone to outer

Verizon Wireless and UTStarcom Offer Award-Winning Pocket PC XV6700
MobileBurn - BEDMINSTER, N.J. and HAUPPAUGE, N.Y., Jan. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Verizon Wireless, the first wireless company to deliver wireless broadband service from coast to coast, and UTStarcom Personal Communications, a division of UTStarcom, Inc

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