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Having lived with hearing loss for decades, I have always longed for progress towards a cure. Yet it seems for decades I have been told the same thing - "scientists …

Consider the last time you were in an environment that made it more challenging to hear. It could have been a phone call with a bad connection, a time when …

I was implanted with the Esteem® in 2006 and it changed my life. I had never, spoken about my hearing loss to anyone outside of my family prior to this, …

Many call it the most wonderful time of the year, but managing a pandemic has made it challenging for everyone to feel the same joy and connectedness this Holiday Season …

Since early March people across the world have experienced a massive change in how we live, work, socialize and get our needs met. It has required unprecedented flexibility mentally, emotionally …

Part of healthy living is managing and monitoring your hearing loss. Will your hearing decline, if so how will you know? Will you have to change how you treat your …

Getting the Esteem® is not an easy decision, and it’s not one to take likely, but if an audiologist says, “well, you could do just as well with hearing aid,” …

As a proud member of the hearing loss community, a hearing aid user for nearly three decades, and a happy bilateral Esteem® recipient, I am intimately familiar with the journey …

You may not know they exist or what they are, but active middle ear implants – or AMEIs as they are sometimes referred to – have created new treatment options …

Hearing loss often creeps up on us slowly over time. We start by turning the volume up on the TV, the phone and the radio. Over time it can progress …