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 ...

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 ...

Last year was particularly eventful for the Haas family of Chicago. In addition to the ups and downs of everyday life with two kids, Declan, 3, and Bennett, 8 months, both boys underwent cochlear ...

Cochlear implants advanced the way people perceive sound, especially to those with moderate to severe hearing loss. It is an electronic device that is surgically implanted into the cochlea or inner ...

For older adults with severe hearing loss, receiving a cochlear implant may help to lift depression symptoms, a small U.S. study suggests. "Hearing loss has long been understood to be a factor that ...

A medical device that has allowed thousands of deaf individuals worldwide the opportunity to hear—sometimes for the first time and well enough to talk on the telephone—is the focus of 15 personal ...

If you’ve started avoiding restaurants because you can’t follow the conversation… if your spouse says you keep turning up the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People over age 65 are likely to see significant although less pronounced improvement in hearing from cochlear implants than their younger adult counterparts, a new study ...

For four-year-old Jaspreet, born to parents who have never heard a sound, Wednesday marked a life-changing turn of fate. In a ...

Australian company Cochlear has teamed up with Apple to release the world’s first cochlear implant sound processor made for iPhone. The Nucleus 7 sound processor will allow users to stream sounds ...