According to a statement, in a major step toward improving healthcare access for hearing-impaired children, six deserving patients received free cochlear implants at the Children’s Hospital of Pims.
“A cochlear implant is a different surgical device, where hearing aids are just no longer enough,” said said Jessica Goodstein, an pediatric audiologist at Children’s Hospital Colorado.
Pulses of light restored hearing in gerbils. Could that lead to higher-tech cochlear implants? Could light one day be used to restore hearing? To try to answer that question, a team of German ...