A cochlear implant may benefit those with severe hearing loss. Implanted in the cochlea, it has many advantages, but there are also drawbacks. The cochlea is the spiral-shaped organ in your inner ear.

According to the CISE faculty lead on the study, the solution could be to build certain alert mechanisms directly into ...

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 ...

K.Flay is getting candid about her experience undergoing surgery to get a cochlear implant. The 39-year-old singer recently took to social media to share she had the procedure last week, detailing how ...

Research: Rehabilitation of human hearing with a totally implantable cochlear implant: a feasibility study. Image Credit: decade3d - anatomy online / Shutterstock Scientists have developed a ...

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 ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — MUSC is leading the country in a clinical trial testing a new cochlear implant. Doctors at MUSC say they are the only site on the east coast who are part of the ...

That same technology is now being employed in a cochlear implant that is in clinical trials at the Medical University of South Carolina. In addition to being fully implanted, as opposed to having ...