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Lisa got her life back with Phonak hearing devices

Lisa’s story told by Phonak

22/08/2016 - Hearing Aids, Treatment

Phonak launches new ad during Hearing Awareness Week

It's Hearing Awareness Week this week (August 21), which gives us an opportunity to highlight the challenges faced by people with hearing difficulties and the amazing hearing solutions available to people with hearing loss. One of our hearing aid providers have created an ad airing on TV this week that will help highlight the personal journey of a person with hearing loss. Phonak has wonderf...

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Intelligent charging and mobile charging ready

The world’s first inductive charging hearing aid

13/07/2016 - Hearing Aids, Technology, Treatment

Hearing aids with no need to change batteries!

This is pretty neat. If you are sick of having to change batteries in your hearing aid Siemens have just launched the Signia Cellion primax hearing aid which can charge inductively. ...

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ACCC to investigate the hearing aid industry

06/07/2016 - Audiologists, Ethics, Insurance, Treatment

Failures of the current system of self-regulation within the audiology field were highlighted in a Radio National documentary (aired on 30 November 2014 and 26 April 2015) that showed common business practices in non-audiologist owned businesses conflict with the codes of ethics that audiologists sign up to when they join professional associations....

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As you get older you may start having trouble identifying where sound is coming from.

Why am I finding it harder to tell where sounds are coming from as I get older?

22/01/2016 - Hearing Aids, Treatment

Many people don't realise that as we get older it is not just our hearing which declines but because of the hearing decline our ability to tell which direction sounds come from, or localisation as it is known, is also affected....

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The expensive Cochlear implant was the only solution for Anne

From the Clinic #01: A solution for Anne

17/10/2015 - From the Clinic, Implants

A free implant helps Anne

Welcome to the first in what I hope will be a long series of small anecdotes from the clinic. We see a lot of patients over the course of the year and there are some remarkable stories amongst them - of their experiences and their results with hearing health diagnosis and treatment. My first story is of Anne, one of our Cochlear recipients. She had her surgery very recently. Prior to the surgery...

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