Scientists have developed a totally implantable cochlear implant that delivers hearing performance comparable to conventional ...

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 ...

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

"A new adventure of having to get a cochlear implant. I was scared. But once I met Dr. Sweeney and Dr. Schadt, I knew there was nothing to worry about. I have never in my life met such supporting ...

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

Before a child gets a cochlear implant, they will have hearing tests, speech and language assessments and medical imaging.

CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - Two years after they implanted an artificial vision system ... Dr. Phillip Troyk told WBBM it’s like a cochlear implant for the blind. The system bypasses the eyes ...

The Carver's did as so many have done over recent decades. They turned to the talented doctors and researchers of the Cochlear Implant Program at University of Iowa Health Care in Iowa City.

If you wear cochlear implants, sound doesn’t enter through your ear, but rather from microphones above your ears. That means earbuds are useless and you have to resort to large and clumsy over ...

Eight-year-old Jaasiel Robledo now has the gift of hearing thanks to the cochlear implant. He was born with a congenital condition that had him hard of hearing, and now, nothing is holding him back.

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 ...