While hearing loss is growing globally, awareness of solutions like cochlear implants remains low. Cochlear’s Hear the Difference effort showcases the sounds most of us may take for granted, but may ...

More than a million people around the world rely on cochlear implants (CIs) to hear. CI effectiveness is generally evaluated through speech recognition tests, and despite how widespread they are, CI ...

A woman with a rare condition that causes hearing- and vision-loss lit up when a cochlear implant was activated in one of her ears. Rebecca Alexander, 47, from New York City, has been diagnosed with ...

More older adults have turned to cochlear implants after Medicare expanded eligibility for the devices. By Paula Span Kitty Grutzmacher had contended with poor hearing for a decade, but the problem ...

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 ...

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, calif. — When Esperanza Bijasa began losing her hearing in 2017, the world around her grew quieter. The Bingo nights, the laughter at parties, the conversations she once cherished ...

It has been decades since he was able to hear out of his right ear, but thanks to an updated cochlear implant, now he can hear his wife and family clearly. WTOP was inside the doctor’s office as that ...

(CNN) — Ben Summers lights up with a smile the moment he talks about the “Batman” theme song or the afternoons he spends playing the piano at his grandmother’s house. Just a few years ago, Ben could ...