Two Tucson patients participated in a clinical trial to receive Acclaim, the nation’s first fully implanted cochlear implant ...

On the way to creating a fully internal cochlear implant, a multidisciplinary team of researchers at MIT, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, and Columbia University has produced an ...

Cochlear implants transmit actual sound signals through ... These signals are sent to a transmitter, which forwards them to the internal receiver. The transmitter and receiver are held together ...

Traditionally, there are two parts to a cochlear implant, an external part, and an internal part. The new version that MUSC is testing, made by a company called ENVOY, eliminates the external comp ...

Cochlear implants enhance sound perception and clarity. Some, like this one, have processors that are worn directly over the implant site and don’t require additional external components.( ...

But not everyone in the Deaf community uses a hearing aid. Many people rely on cochlear, or inner ear implants, which directly stimulate the hearing nerve and use an external sound processor to ...

It then sends signals to an internal sound processor and on to ... explain why so many patients who need hearing aids or cochlear implants choose not to get them, Lucas said.

Pulses of light restored hearing in gerbils. Could that lead to higher-tech cochlear implants? Could light one day be used to restore hearing? To try to answer that question, a team of German ...