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The new website, with information on hearing advancements and technology, allows customers to view video testimonials and hearing news. Edina, MN (PRWEB) December 13, 2012 The website from Audiology Concepts was created by the staff in order to give their clients better access to hearing aids in Edina MN and hearing aid technology. The website allows new clients to schedule consultations, and gives returning patients the opportunity to schedule appointments with their preferred doctor....
[ Watch the Video: Teens and Tweens Should Get Tested for Hearing Loss ] redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Parents strongly favor required hearing screenings for children and teens under the age of 18, according to results released Monday from the University of Michigan’s National Poll on Children's Health. The poll asked the parents whether they’d support requirements for hearing screening, and where they would prefer to have the screenings conducted....
MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Starkey Hearing Foundation recently completed a hearing mission in India, where founders Bill and Tani Austin were blessed by the Dalai Lama for their philanthropic efforts around the world. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121210/NY26901 )(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120806/NY52908LOGO-b ) The Foundation delivered the gift of hearing by fitting more than 14,000 hearing aids to people in need. This is the...
Parents are loud and clear: both teens and tweens should get tested for hearing loss, according to U-M's National Poll on Children's Health ANN ARBOR, Mich., Dec. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Just yelling "turn it down" isn't enough when young people are blasting music directly into their ears via earbuds and headphones, parents say. A new poll from the University of Michigan shows parents are strongly in favor of required hearing screenings for kids all the way up to age...
WARRENVILLE, Ill., Dec. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- From Dec. 7-9, 1,100 athletes at the Southern California Special Olympics Games in Irvine and Fountain Valley will receive a very special holiday gift...hearing. The Healthy Hearing Screening Program - part of the broader Healthy Athletes initiative sponsored by Special Olympics - is a critical initiative aimed at providing needed hearing healthcare to this medically underserved population. And the volunteer team of...
LONDON, December 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In these austere times of public-sector cuts, Medicspro; the UK's leading medical recruitment agency for speech and language therapy jobs [http://www.medicspro.com/speech-and-language-jobs.cms.asp ] and biomedical science jobs [http://www.medicspro.com/biomedical-sciences-jobs.cms.asp ], is going against the prevailing market trend, announcing increased roles and opportunities for speech and language therapy jobs and biomedical science...
DENVER, Nov. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A Swedish Medical Center (www.SwedishHospital.com) physician is breaking new ground in the area of cochlear implants with his recent surgery on a 9-year-old girl who received the medical implant for single-sided deafness. Daniel Zeitler, M.D., a neurotologist and skull-based surgeon, is one of only a few medical professionals in the U.S. to perform the procedure for this population and diagnosis. (Logo:...
WARRENVILLE, Ill., Nov. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- John Legend, Harry Belafonte, Sting, Billy Idol: these are just a few of the many stars who have had their photos taken for the 2013 Hear the World calendar. Pictured with one hand behind the ear - the distinctive Hear the World pose synonymous with conscious hearing - they help raise awareness of a much-neglected issue: the vital importance of good hearing and the serious consequences of hearing loss. All proceeds from the sale of...
Ministry provides Gospel outreach to community unable to use their primary resource - Audio Bibles ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Nov. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- If you are the world's leading Audio Bible ministry - with New Testament recordings in over 690 languages - is it strange to produce a Bible app for a group of people that will never hear your work? Faith Comes By Hearing didn't think so. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120507/DC01259LOGO) "When I took on the...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Researchers reported in the journal Nature Biotechnology that they have found a new way to help power an implantable electronic device in the ear, naturally. The scientists said they have demonstrated for the first time that they could use the inner ear to help power implantable electronic devices without impairing hearing. The inner ear in mammals is a chamber filled with ions that produces an electrical potential to drive neural...
