British Trust to the Rescue of Hard of Hearing Kids in South Africa

TRUST PROVIDING CRUCIAL HELP FOR DEAF CHILDREN

Bath, UK
The Bath Chronicle
January 2008

A British trust has been helping restore hearing to children in South Africa, donating as many as 2,000 instruments to South African children. The UK-based Signal Trust collects donations of hearing aids and repairs them prior to shipping them south, where audiologists identify needy children and fit them with the instruments. Most children fitted do not have the benefit of verbal communication.

Jailed Rapper Petitions for Leave to Repair Implant...

New York
The New York Times
January 2008

Foxy Brown, a rapper in jail for violating probation after being convicted for the assualt of two New York manicurists, has claimed her hearing is deteriorating in jail because she is not being allowed to seek clinical treatment of her cochlear implant...

Can you hear me now?

Foxy Brown Asks to be Released from Jail

Al Mann's Prescription for Improving the Human Condition

Mann Power
Los Angeles, California
Smart Business
November 2005

Al Mann, the billionaire founder of Advanced Bionics (cochlear implants), dishes out management wisdom in this profile by Laura Taxel. Mann founded several companies among them Spectrolab (electrooptical systems, 1956 - today a subsidiary of Boeing), Heliotek (semiconductors, spacecraft solar cells), Pacesetter Systems (pacemakers, sold to St. Jude Medical), MiniMed (insulin pumps, sold to Medtronics), Mannkind Corporation, Second Sight, Bioness, Quallion, and Stellar Microelectronics.

Referring to the major elements required to create a successful business enterprise, Mann says, "Capital is most important, I can’t emphasize that enough...The failure of most promising businesses is usually due to inadequate funds for the start-up and early growth phase of the enterprise."

Forty-Year-Olds Thrive with New Hearing Instruments

Hearing from a Younger Crowd

Chicago, Illinois
The Beacon News
January 2008

New hearing instruments from leading companies are facilitating adoption of the latest hearing technology by younger and younger people.

Struggling with Hearing Loss

Brentwood, California
Bethel Island Press
January 2008

Hear today, gone tomorrow?

Great account of a baby boomer's struggle with the potential for hearing loss, written by a Pulitzer-nominated journalist, Beth Witrogen

Hearing Review "Top 10" Stories - Hearing Science, Tech, and Trends

Hearing Review has published its year-end round-up of top ten stories in each of three segments:

Top Ten Hearing Science / Fitting Stories

Top Ten Technology Stories

Top Ten Hearing Segment Trends