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by Bruce Brown | March 13, 2023 | Medical
In recent months we have covererd many new over-the-counter (OTC) aids. The FDA published guidelines last fall for retail locations to sell hearing aids for mild-to-moderate hearing loss without a prescription. We wrote about OTC aids from Nuheara, Sony, and Bose,...
by Bruce Brown | January 31, 2023 | Health
Long-known for its hearable devices for phone calls and streaming content, Jabra showcased its first medical hearing product at CES 2023. Jabra has joined a long list of traditional audio brands such as Sony and Bose that now are manufacturing or licensing...
by Bruce Brown | January 26, 2023 | Health
The 2017 Over the Counter Hearing Aid Act directed the FDA to create guidelines to allow retail stores to sell hearing aids as medical devices for mild to moderate hearing loss without a prescription. In October 2022, the FDA rules went into effect. Some of the same...
by Bruce Brown | January 17, 2023 | Health, Medical
The Consumer Trade Association (CTA) named the HP Hearing PRO self-fitting over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids as one of their CES 2023 Innovation Awards Honorees. Perhaps even more significantly, the FDA granted clearance to market the Nuheara-designed hearing aids...
by Bruce Brown | December 8, 2022 | Health
A disproportionate number of people with hearing loss don’t have hearing aids. Cost is the major factor that prevents people from getting help when their hearing degrades. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if relatively inexpensive earbuds could could fill the...
