Cochlear implant surgery helps people with severe hearing loss by placing an electronic device inside the inner ear. To reach the inner ear, surgeons must first remove part of a bone behind the ear, ...

Ten-month-old Amir Hayden sits on his mother’s lap inside a sound-proof booth at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals audiology clinic in Oakland, as audiologist Sarah Coulthurst, MS, takes him through a ...

Ryder Boen, an 11-year-old from Oklahoma, heard clearly for the first time in his life after receiving a cochlear implant from Hearts for Hearing, an organization dedicated to helping Oklahomans of ...

When you hear the phrase "tools to help you hear," you might first think of a "hearing aid." However, recently, you may have also heard the term "cochlear implant" more often.“They are both devices ...

Zenek Luci was born deaf to a family in Welland, Ontario. He used hearing aids as an infant before receiving a cochlear implant in an operation, his father, Gabriel, says. "He was about one year old ...

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The use of cochlear implants to treat children and adults with severe sensorineural hearing loss has made "incredible progress" over recent years, according to Christopher Bohr, MD, PhD, director of ...

A woman in Sacramento chose to stay awake during cochlear implant surgery to avoid anesthesia effects due to Type 1 diabetes The procedure was performed only with local anesthesia around the ear in ...