DuJuan Broadus Jr, 10, is a Louisville boy has received hearing care from UK HealthCare's Ear, Nose and Throat clinic with his FLEX34 hearing device. July 22, 2025. A Louisville boy recently became ...

More than a million people around the world rely on cochlear implants (CIs) to hear. CI effectiveness is generally evaluated ...

For the hearing-impaired, cochlear implants can be absolutely life-changing. But few of us actually know what it sounds like to slip on one of those tiny wearable devices and hear words, voices and ...

Shortly before his death in August 2025, A. James Hudspeth and his team in the Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience at The Rockefeller University achieved a groundbreaking technological advancement: the ...

FARGO — Inside audiologist Kayla McClellan's room at Sanford on Wednesday, Oct. 26, Dennis Barrett of Bemidji was getting his cochlear implant system a checkup. Barrett, 57, is an active runner, ...

Cochlear implants help improve hearing for individuals with profound hearing loss. Medicare covers cochlear implants for individuals who meet eligibility requirements. Cochlear implants help people ...

A cochlear implant consists of three parts: receiver/stimulator, headpiece and speech processor. The receiver/stimulator is the part that is implanted. It looks like a magnetic disk the size of a ...

ANAHEIM HILLS, Calif. -- Cochlear implants to help those with profound hearing loss have been around for decades, but patients are getting younger and younger. One Anaheim Hills infant is one of the ...

A local man just got a new cochlear implant that runs its own firmware, similar to an iPhone. It’s helped him to hear his ...

1) What is a cochlear implant? A cochlear implant is a small, surgically implanted electronic device that provides a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard of hearing. It ...

Ear care, or otology, specifically treats the structure and function of the ear. Ear conditions include hearing and balance disorders, damage or disease of the ear, tumors, and others (see below). Our ...

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