Post-operative care is essential for the success of cochlear implantation ...

Sydney: An Australian man in his forties became the first person in the world to leave a hospital and live 100 days with an artificial titanium heart, marking a historic milestone in medical science.

Why Do They Test a Newborn's Hearing? The sense of hearing is well-developed at birth. Babies can hear in the womb, and their brains begin organizing centers for listening and speech from a very early ...

It looks like it’s straight out of a comic book, but BiVACOR is a real, functioning titanium heart. The metal device is ultimately intended as a replacement for human donor organs, but was first ...

A mechanical heart has been implanted in a New South Wales man who was experiencing severe heart failure. He has become the first person in the world to be discharged from hospital with the ...

Apple does pretty well when it comes to accessibility for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. The tech giant offers more than 50 models of hearing devices that, when linked to an iPhone, introduce a ...

A recent study published in Nature Biomedical Engineering has showcased a, shall we say, remarkable innovation: a 3D-printed penile implant that successfully restored sexual function in rabbits ...

With a U.S. green light for its encapsulated cell therapy technology in the bag, privately held biotech Neurotech Pharmaceuticals is on the verge of making its commercial debut. The FDA last week ...

March 7, 2025 – The FDA has approved a new gene therapy for macular telangiectasia type 2 (MacTel), a rare eye disease that causes vision loss. The approval marks the first and only ...

A 3D-printed penis implant has restored erectile function to rabbits and pigs in a world first. Pigs with damage to their penile tissue that received the one-of-a-kind surgery not only achieved ...