A hearing revolution has arrived. Brand-new from Audibel® comes the world’s first healthable hearing aid with integrated sensors and artificial intelligence. Able to track brain and body health, Via® AI puts your hearing health in your hands through a new mobile app – the Thrive™ Hearing app – and a suite of new wireless accessories.…
Have you ever experienced ringing in the ears after attending a loud concert? Then join the not-a-fan club. Many tinnitus sufferers — like Terry — trace their hearing issues to a concert or music event. And plenty of musicians wind up with tinnitus and/or hearing loss as a result of regular exposure to loud music, including Pete Townsend, Chris…
Numerous prescription and over-the-counter medications are known to be ototoxic, which means “poisonous to the ears.” Ototoxic drugs can cause vestibular dysfunction or damage the inner ear, which can result in hearing loss or tinnitus. Ototoxic effects can be temporary and go away once a medication is stopped. But some effects can be long-term…
Help – Something’s wrong with my hearing aid! Like any electronic device, hearing aids will occasionally malfunction. Not to worry – we’re here to assist you in identifying minor hearing aid problems and how to troubleshoot them. This information may save you time and reduce frustration by helping you remedy some of these problems yourself,…
I treat my hearing aids a lot like my car, maybe better actually. Both are routinely treated to cleaning rituals and maintenance tune-ups. And while my car may only get cleaned once a month, I make sure I dry and clean my hearing aids daily, regardless of how long I wear them each day. …
All Ears: Why do I have a hard time hearing in noise? By Carolyn Pinkerton, Au.D. One of the first signs of hearing loss is when someone, who typically hears well in quiet environments, struggles to hear in noise. Why is that? Even for someone with normal hearing, noisy settings can be tricky to…
If you’re using TruLink, you may have noticed a cool feature called Noise Manager. This feature, located in the Personalize section of TruLink, lets you control and personalize noise management settings on-demand. Here’s how to use Noise Manager: From the TruLink home screen, tap on “Personalize” in the bottom right-hand corner. Tap on…
We frequently tout the many benefits of wearing hearing aids — like improved relationships, increased confidence, reduced risk of cognitive decline and more — because we see and hear first-hand how hearing better changes a person’s life, and we want everyone with hearing loss to experience the same. Now, a WebMD® study confirms it. Watch this…
Q: What’s the difference between a cochlear implant and a hearing aid? A: Cochlear implants and hearing aids are both medical devices used to treat sensorineural hearing loss, the most common type of hearing loss. While both devices treat hearing loss, hearing aids are much more common than cochlear implants. Hearing aids are…
Wireless hearing aids and SurfLink accessories let you live life the way you want. Our newest wireless hearing aids — A4 and Invisibel [Synergy] — are our most advanced hearing aids ever. Thanks to an all-new operating system and updated technology, they’re designed to make music sound more natural than ever, and speech sound crisp and…
