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 ...

In November, Driscoll completed its first cochlear implant case to use the Cochlear Nexa. The child became the first in South ...

Cochlear implants help improve hearing for individuals with profound hearing loss. Medicare covers cochlear implants for individuals who meet eligibility requirements. Cochlear implants help people ...

The use of cochlear implants to treat children and adults with severe sensorineural hearing loss has made "incredible progress" over recent years, according to Christopher Bohr, MD, PhD, director of ...

The WRAL Health Team has been following the Allen family of Wake Forest since 1999. That's when 7-month-0old Evan Allen was the youngest child in the country to receive a cochlear implant. All three ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (KWWL) Hearing loss is viewed as public health issue, with some 66,000 people losing their hearing every year. Some simply wake up no longer being able to hear, for no apparent reason.

While cochlear implants do allow some deaf people to hear, they also incorporate potentially problematic external components located on the side of the head. That could soon change, however, thanks to ...

First and Only Cochlear Implant FDA Approved for Youngest Infant Population MED-EL USA announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an expanded indication for MED-EL ...

Ray Cathey is on a journey from silence to new sounds. Cathey's hearing took a pounding when he was an air rescue paramedic during the Vietnam War. "When you're in helicopters all the time and you've ...

Medicare covers cochlear implants for people who meet eligibility requirements, and implant costs can begin at around $558. Additional out-of-pocket costs may apply. If a person has profound hearing ...