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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 | March 1, 2021 | Medical
How long should hearables last between charges? Put another way, whether you rely on over the counter (OTC) hearing assistive devices or prescription-only hearing aids, how many hours do you want them to run before you need to recharge or replace the batteries? The...
by Bruce Brown | February 22, 2021 | Medical
Hearables will be a driving force in the wearables market for the next three to five years. We know that because IDC and Gartner have shown us the predicted global shipment market reports. Most hearables we write about are over-the-counter (OTC) devices that assist...
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by Alfred Poor | May 2, 2019 | Health
According to the Hearing Health Foundation, about 48 million people in the U.S. suffer from some degree of hearing loss. About one third of all adults aged 65 to 74 have some hearing loss, and that jumps to one half for those 75 or older. Hearing impairment can play a...
by Bruce Brown | April 5, 2019 | Health
On June 2, 1897, The New York Journal published a response to a query from its English correspondent to Samuel Clemens about the writer’s health. Clemens, over the signature of his pen name Mark Twain, replied in part, “The report of my death was an...
