“My daughter Saoirse is deaf, so she wears a cochlear implant. She needs to charge the batteries every night, but that’s not possible at the moment,” she told the Irish Examiner.

Cochlear Implant (CI): A surgically implanted electronic device that provides a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard of hearing by directly stimulating the auditory ...

Hearing loss is viewed as public health issue, with some 66,000 people losing their hearing every year. Some simply wake up ...

A cochlear implant is an electronic device implanted in the ear's inner side to improve speech understanding. It does not restore hearing; rather, it enhances it. A cochlear implant specialist can ...

The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) is one of seven sites nationwide testing a new type of cochlear implant that ...

we monitored that for about 15 years – until I was 65 and essentially deaf. The audiologist suggested, since there was nothing more we could do with hearing aids, that I try a cochlear implant ...

Could that lead to higher-tech cochlear implants? Could light one day be used ... coiled strips of optical fibers in the ears of deaf gerbils. A new study outlines how gene therapy could reverse ...

Both Roberta and Jim Carver received cochlear implants to help restore their hearing electronically in a process started ...

Eight-year-old Jaasiel Robledo now has the gift of hearing thanks to the cochlear implant. He was born with a congenital ...

More than 100 years after the construction of the engineering marvel that linked the Atlantic and Pacific oceans — and 25 ...