Now, when I go days without my cochlear implant, I start to lose my sense of presence. I dissociate. The edges of reality ...

Deb Hipp is a freelance health and medical writer and editor who lives in Kansas City, Missouri. She is a former investigative reporter with more than 25 years of experience as a journalist and writer ...

Queer Deaf activist and multidisciplinary artist Chella Man recently went through something no one should have to experience.

A cochlear implant is a surgically implanted electronic device designed to improve your ability to hear. Otolarnygologists (ear, nose, and throat doctors) and audiologists recommend cochlear implants ...

After nearly two years of silence, a 3-year-old Iraqi boy reentered the world of sound on Tuesday when the cochlear implant he’d received at UCSF was activated. Mustafa Ghazwan, who had lost his ...

Cochlear implants help improve hearing for individuals with profound hearing loss. Medicare covers cochlear implants for individuals who meet eligibility requirements. Cochlear implants help people ...

The installation of a cochlear implant is a tricky procedure, in which certain nerves may be damaged if the surgeon isn't sufficiently careful. A new "smart" surgical drill is designed to help, by ...

Specialist surgeons have successfully performed cochlear implant surgery on children with profound hearing loss at Jowako Specialist Hospital, Kaduna. The surgery was led by Prof. Mohammed Garba ...

Aug. 27 (UPI) --Cochlear implants offer "clinically meaningful improvement" over hearing aids in both hearing and quality of life for adults age 65 and older with hearing loss, according to a study ...

When Esperanza Bijasa began losing her hearing in 2017, the world around her grew quieter. The Bingo nights, the laughter at ...