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 ...

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

Nile’s right ear did not form properly. His left one did, but, he was still born deaf. Because of his cochlear implant, Nile can now hear sounds, but does not yet speak. The hope is that Nile, someday ...

The possibility of success of a cochlear implant is best if it is done before the child turns five, said Sumanta Kumar Dutta, ...

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

Finally, she notes, “Very often, people with hearing loss tend to withdraw from social situations where they find it ...

It works to process sound in the following way: The average number of auditory nerve fibers can vary between 500 fibers per millimeter (mm) to 1400 fibers per mm, depending on the location within the ...

A 54-year-old woman from Azamgarh underwent successful cochlear implantation at Banaras Hindu University. This is the first time the university's ENT ...

To train the surgeons on auditory brainstem implant surgery, PGIMER conducted the first two days of the Auditory Brainstem ...

Born profoundly deaf, Jamie-Lee was given the life-changing gift of a double cochlear implant. Now, she’s paying it forward. With rugby league legend Wally Lewis as a dad, superstar siblings Lincoln ...