If you wear cochlear implants, sound doesn’t enter through your ear, but rather from microphones above your ears. That means earbuds are useless and you have to resort to large and clumsy over ...

"A new adventure of having to get a cochlear implant. I was scared. But once I met Dr. Sweeney and Dr. Schadt, I knew there was nothing to worry about. I have never in my life met such supporting ...

She received a cochlear implant at UMass Memorial Medical Center ... sits under her skin and connects to a receiver through a magnet. “This is something that will allow her to go on to develop ...

The busy MUSC Health Cochlear Implant Program is about to launch another clinical trial. This one will test a device that has ...

The Cochlear Implant Surgery and “Switch-On” “Zahra underwent successful cochlear implantation, during which the internal components of the device, including the receiver-stimulator and ...

Medicare covers cochlear implants for people who meet eligibility requirements, and implant costs can begin at around $558. Additional out-of-pocket costs may apply. If a person has profound ...

Researchers have discovered a groundbreaking use of terahertz (THz) imaging to visualize cochlear structures in mice, offering non-invasive, high-resolution diagnostics. By creating 3D reconstructions ...

That same technology is now being employed in a cochlear implant that is in clinical trials at the Medical University of South Carolina. In addition to being fully implanted, as opposed to having ...

Pulses of light restored hearing in gerbils. Could that lead to higher-tech cochlear implants? Could light one day be used to restore hearing? To try to answer that question, a team of German ...