REUTERS - Problems with cochlear implants for deaf children are rare, with only some three percent of children who got the implants at one hospital needing new ones because of technical problems, ...

More families have received compensation for a cochlear ear implant programming error at the Women's and Children's Hospital. SA Health says the number of children ...

Ten-month-old Amir Hayden sits on his mother’s lap inside a sound-proof booth at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals audiology clinic in Oakland, as audiologist Sarah Coulthurst, MS, takes him through a ...

Cochlear implants have restored basic hearing to 2,20,000 deaf people around the world, yet a microphone and related electronics must be worn outside the head, raising reliability issues, preventing ...