The Food and Drug Administration approved cochlear implants for adults in 1985 and children have been getting them since 1990. By 2010 more than 42,000 people in the country had them, the FDA ...

Janine Roebuck, a UK opera singer, regained her hearing after double cochlear implant surgery, transforming her life at age seventy two. An artificial intelligence-based smart cochlear implant has ...

When Sam Swiller used hearing aids, his musical tastes ran to AC/DC and Nirvana — loud bands with lots of drums and bass. But after Swiller got a cochlear implant in 2005, he found that sort of music ...

Deb Hipp is a freelance health and medical writer and editor who lives in Kansas City, Missouri. She is a former investigative reporter with more than 25 years of experience as a journalist and writer ...

Bone-anchored hearing aids (BAHAs) and cochlear implants are devices that can improve the quality of a person’s hearing. They work in different ways, and each has specific advantages and disadvantages ...

Hearing aids are small, battery-operated devices that a person can wear in or behind the ear. They help people with mild-to-profound hearing loss hear better by amplifying sounds. Hearing aids ...

Cochlear implants are among the most successful neural prostheses on the market. These artificial ears have allowed nearly 1 million people globally with severe to profound hearing loss to either ...