Sadie Paden, born with profound hearing loss, received a prestigious scholarship from the makers of a device that transformed ...

CLINTON, Tenn. — For around 30 years, Brandy Brogden hasn’t been able to hear the sounds that most people hear daily. “I’ve never heard my kids speak. I’ve read their lips,” said Brogden. She was ...

A Massachusetts 10-month-old heard for the first time thanks to cochlear implants she received at UMass Memorial Medical Center. Charlie Sinclair, of Hardwick, was diagnosed with Usher syndrome Type ...

Joanne Milne is a 40-year-old woman from Gateshead, England, born with Usher Syndrome, a rare and devastating genetic disorder that left her deaf since birth and blind since her twenties. Recently, ...

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 ...

For nearly 40 years, 72-yearold Susan Grossman suffered progressive hearing loss that restricted her use of the telephone and made listening to her favorite singer, Frank Sinatra, impossible. That ...

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 ...

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 ...