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 ...

A cochlear implant works as a prosthetic for the damaged portions of the inner ear. The implant consists of two parts: an outer section with a microphone and processor, and an internal element ...

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 ...

unlike earlier fully implantable cochlear devices, this device offers hearing performance with internal components comparable to using an external processor. The implant's safety analysis ...

A cochlear implant is a neural prosthesis that replaces the function ... natural hearing as possible while avoiding any unnecessary damage. That electrode and internal device connect to a speech ...

Cochlear implants help people with profound hearing loss to hear sounds and speech. They have two parts: one internal and one external, which means getting them involves surgery. Medicare covers ...

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.