The Allen children were born without the hearing nerve endings in the ear's cochlea. The implant works through an external microphone filtered through a battery-powered processor. A magnet makes ...

Cochlear implant surgery may take place in a hospital or an outpatient surgical center. You will be put to sleep under general anesthesia during the procedure so you will not feel anything nor ...

A cochlear implant is an electronic device implanted in the ear's inner side to improve speech understanding. It does not restore hearing; rather, it enhances it. A cochlear implant specialist can ...

Radio Head Gal is both the alter-ego of TED speaker Rebecca Knill and the name of her new memoir. In it, she documents her life as a deaf person before and after she received cochlear implants. In ...

The way in which we experience music and speech differs from what has until now been believed. This is the conclusion of a study by researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, and the Oregon Health ...

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 ...

A woman with a rare condition that causes hearing- and vision-loss lit up when a cochlear implant was activated in one of her ...

Walter Vidal Contreras Robles sat excitedly in the small waiting room of UNLV’s otolaryngology clinic with a bright smile on his face the morning of May 30. It was his 37th birthday, and instead of ...

Rebecca’s cochlear implant activation reaction is going viral as she hears through her second implant and recalls the ...

VALENCIA, CA / ACCESS Newswire / April 14, 2026 / Advanced Bionics (AB), a global leader in cochlear implant technology, today announced an equity investment and research collaboration with Spiral ...