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Lincoln Daily News - The service is provided by Joyce Dearth, B.C.H.I.S., from the Hearing Aid Center. For an appointment, call the senior center at 732-6132. Bingo at the Rec For Tuesday night bingo at the Lincoln Rec Center on Feb. 5, there will be a
Archive for January, 2008
Ancient therapeutic technique gets a modern treatment
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - One of her clients, Doris Marshall, 82, of California, Pa., a retired nurse, said she had been having problems hearing and didn’t want to get a hearing aid. “I’ve taken the procedure twice already, hoping it might help my hearing,” she said. “My ears
How I Did It: Rachel Coleman, CEO, Two Little Hands Productions
Inc.com - I know what it’s like to load a wheelchair into the car, what it feels like when a child’s hearing aid dies in the middle of a movie. Kids are growing up with Alex and Leah. Now, when we go out, they get recognized. So I need to actually brush my hair
Funeral-home owner familiar with joy and pain
Winston-Salem Journal - Jefferson was fitted with an unwieldy hearing-aid that was bulky and humiliating to him. The technology of the 1960s required that a box be worn around his neck with wires coming out of the device and running to his ears. Jefferson said he refused to
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Mandan residents ask for noise ordinance
Bismarck Tribune - Just turn off your hearing aid at night. Seriously, I live about 1 1/4 miles north of the railroad on the east side of Bismarck and I can hear the train go by in the middle of the night. Should I get a petition together to move the train tracks that
Govt distributes over 400 million/- materials for orphans schooling
IPP Media - The materials include hearing aid for deaf children, white canes for the blind, braillon papers and special computerised printing machine and other teaching materials. Speaking during the ceremony, Mahiza said that the handing over of the materials
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Everyone ‘hears sound differently’
Oxfordshire News - NO two people listen to the world in the same way, according to researchers at the University of Oxford. Every individual’s brain is tuned differently to the sound environment, they have claimed. The work could lead to more sophisticated hearing aids
Share the Season sets record for donations
Wichita Eagle - She also saw an increase in donations of in-kind services, such as physician and dental care and donations of hearing aids, glasses and clothing. In 2006, Kathy Easley’s family sought help through Share the Season. Her husband’s employer had closed
‘Murder plot’ wife’s tears for blind husband
Daily Telegraph - Supported by hearing specialists and using two hearing aids, Mr Knight told the jury how he had experienced stomach cramps on the morning he was taken into hospital. He said: “I went to see my GP in the morning and he told me to drink as much fluids
Danish shares higher midmorning led by Genmab
CNBC - Hearing aid making peer William Demant AS, which was also dragged down on Tuesday by GN’s full year profit warning, added 3.50 dkr to 397.00. Carlsberg AS was up 3.00 dkr at 601.00. RB Boersen said, citing BBC, that the group will dismiss 58 employees
GN Store Nord cuts full year EBITA guidance on weak sales growth
Forbes - COPENHAGEN (Thomson Financial) - Danish headset and hearing aid manufacturer GN Store Nord AS cut its full year EBITA guidance for hearing aid unit Resound by 100-150 mln dkr to 300 mln, and for headset unit GN Netcom by 30-40 mln dkr to 60-70 mln
Rutgers Neuroscience May Hold Key To New Cochlear Implant Technology
Medical News Today - Where some hair cells exist, sounds can be amplified with a hearing aid. Where the hair cells are missing or damaged - a condition generally associated with severe hearing impairment - an implant may be used to replace their function. Davis, a
Revealed: 1 billion Olympics black hole
Times Online - extend the congestion tax zone to include Belgium, France and Ireland. For the next ‘financial black hole’ one could extend the zone on a radius to include Moscow but would that be enough? So what if people complain, the batteries in the hearing aid
A grand opera concert for an audience of one
Quad-Cities Times - She turned up her hearing aid and sang along with Ric Furman, the Duke, in La donna mobile. Oh, this is just like I m at the Met, she exclaimed after a 45-minute performance. Amazing Elsie still astounds at 106. She waved goodbye, calling
GN Store Says 2007 Profit Cut by Failure to Sell Unit (Update1)
Bloomberg - Jan. 15 (Bloomberg) — GN Store Nord A/S, the world’s largest maker of mobile headsets, said it didn’t meet 2007 profit targets because of setbacks with the planned sale of its hearing aid unit. The shares plunged 23 percent. Earnings before interest
Your Upgrade Is Ready: Photos and Animations
Popular Mechanics - implant technologies is restoring hearing to tens of thousands of patients worldwide. Sound is converted into electrical signals and then transmitted to the auditory nerve, bypassing damaged structures in the ear. While it resembles a hearing aid
Health Tip: Caring For Your Hearing Aid
MedicineNet.com - (HealthDay News) — A hearing aid is an expensive and sophisticated electronic device that should be cared for properly to help extend its life. Here are suggestions for how to keep your hearing aid functioning properly, courtesy of the U.S. National
Tax Breaks on Medical Costs
Smart Money - Updated on January 4, 2008. THERE’S MORE TO HEALTH-CARE tax breaks than the itemized deduction. The most common way Hearing aid.
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Kirkland Courier - As she strolled, with her hearing aid temporarily disabled, by the 1300 block of South Court Street, a strange man came up behind her and placed a hand over her mouth and a hand over her genitals. The 40-50 year-old assailant - described as slim
Tax Breaks on Medical Costs
Smart Money - Updated on January 4, 2008. THERE’S MORE TO HEALTH-CARE tax breaks than the itemized deduction. The most common way Hearing aid.
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Challenges don’t hinder this student
Baltimore Sun - After years of wearing two hearing aids, Rajagopalan received a cochlear implant four years ago, said his father. The implant, which bypasses natural hearing, is in his right ear, and he wears a hearing aid in his left. With the help of the devices
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HearAtLast Holdings, Inc. Provides Shareholder Update and Guidance
Forbes - We believe that when we expand our marketing program we will begin to capture a significant percentage of the market for people that already wear hearing aids. We will post updated financial information on November 15, 2007 on Pinksheets.com. With
What’d you say?
Sioux City Journal - Anyway, that occurred, and they suggested at that time I look into hearing aids,” he said. He then learned heredity’s import. “I have a long history in my family on my mother’s side of the family where it goes back several generations where my great
What’d you say?
Sioux City Journal - Anyway, that occurred, and they suggested at that time I look into hearing aids,” he said. He then learned heredity’s import. “I have a long history in my family on my mother’s side of the family where it goes back several generations where my great
Tax Tips for Medical Expenses
FOX News - So if you paid for prescription drugs, contact lenses, hearing aids, alcoholism and drug abuse treatment programs, lead-paint removal products and orthopedic shoes, you can deduct those expenses on Schedule A Itemized Deductions. Same goes for
Cochlear impants - from India?
BusinessWeek - Having conversations with my family and friends on the phone keeps me in close contact with those I care about. It is easier hearing in noisy places with the Cochlear Implant as my hearing aids amplified everything and I had to rely on lipreading in
New Phone Targets Technophobe Grandparents
MarketingVOX - The handset they developed has no digital camera, Internet access or instant messaging capabilities, but it does include a button to call relatives or friends in an emergency, is compatible with hearing aids and can run on regular AAA batteries,
Playing It by Ear
Scientific American - Such a device could be combined with a sophisticated automatic paraphrasing system, which would be more important because hearing-impaired people rely heavily on context in conversation, Okuno thinks. Okuno himself is nearly deaf without hearing aids
Technitrol to buy Sonion of Denmark for $385M
MSN MoneyCentral - Technitrol Inc. said Tuesday that it has agreed to buy Denmark audio devices company Sonion A/S for $385 million. Sonion makes devices used in hearing aids, high-end earphones, medical devices and other applications, Technitrol (NYSE:TNL) said
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dBusinessNews.com - America Hears, Manufacturer and Distributor of Digital Hearing Aids, Finds Success with New Hearing Aid Model Freedom LOF (Liberty Open Fit) Hearing Aid Model Gains Raves CIGNA Invites Runners to Enter Contest for a Free Trip to the 2008 CIGNA
What happens to my body during this time? (60 +)
Health 24 - There are very advanced hearing aids on the market today that can change the life of a woman whose hearing has started to deteriorate. Declining bone mass is a problem widely experienced by older women. After the menopause, a woman’s bones starts
MONEY & POWER
Newsday - When he had an apartment in Boca Raton, Fla., his neighbors quickly learned that he was the “Siemens man.” Nolen recalls, “Many of them had hearing aids that we made and wanted to know where they can get new batteries. I love it.” E-mail Richard
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PR.com - America Hears (www.americahears.com) is a 26-year-old, American-owned-and-operated manufacturer of hearing aids located in Bristol,
The Transistor’s Birthday
Forbes - By 1954 the transistor was in 97% of hearing aids and sales of the devices were up 50%. That year the first transistor radio came out. It cost $49.95, the equivalent of $380 today. Still, as of 1955, a total of just 4 million transistors had been
Patients’ happy challenge: a rising survival rate
Raleigh News & Observer - He got hearing aids this year to compensate for hearing loss likely caused by radiation. And, just recently, the Walders learned that chemotherapy drugs their son received may harm his heart. The American Society of Clinical Oncology recently drafted
Tiny breakthroughs promise big change
Edinburgh News - Bulky and ineffective hearing aids are also set to be a thing of the past with new tiny electronic implants already in development. They are expected to transform the lives of the hard of hearing. There could also be hope for desperate patients
Gloucester Goings On
Gloucester Daily Times - Joseph Sarofeen, hearing aid specialist at Rogers Hearing Solutions, offers hearing tests, family counseling, and cleaning and repairing of hearing aids at no charge. Appointments are required; call the Council on Aging at 978-281-9765. Museum offers