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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 30, 2023 | Medical
The OTC Hearing Aid Act allows retailers to sell hearing aids for people with mild to moderate hearing loss without a prescription. In the past few months we’ve written about several companies such as Nuheara, Eargo, and Jabra that launched new OTC hearing aids...
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 | November 17, 2022 | Health
Health Tech Insider often covers new developments in hearable technology, starting well before the 2017 OTC Hearing Aid Act legislation. The law directed the FDA to create a category of over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids. The act’s intent is to loosen...
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by Bruce Brown | June 23, 2022 | Health
Hearables account for a growing segment of the wearables market. In 2021, IDC predicted hearables would dominate the double-digit growth in wearables overall through 2024. Most developers in the hearables category focus on devices, in categories such as earbuds,...
