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FDA Advisory Panel Votes 15 to 0 in Favor of Approving Envoy Medicals Esteem Fully Implantable Hearing Restoration System
Sunday, January 24th 2010
Envoy Medical, a Minnesota corporation, has developed the first Fully Implantable Hearing Restoration System known as the Esteem®. On December 18th, an Advisory Panel of...
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Better Hearing with Bone Conducted Sound
Monday, July 27th 2009
New technology to hear vibrations through the skull bone has been developed at Chalmers University of Technology. Besides investigating the function of a new implantable bone...
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What are middle ear implants?
Monday, October 13th 2008
Middle ear implants are surgically implanted devices. Particular middle ear implants have been approved by the FDA for specific hearing losses, such as chronic middle ear...
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Music to Deaf Ears: Auditory Nerve Implant Can Deliver Wide Range of Sounds, Early Tests Show
Friday, July 27th 2007
Tiny array placed in auditory nerve may one day offer superior alternative to cochlear implants, U-M animal study suggestsAnn Arbor, Mich. June 7, 2007 More than decades ag...
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Soundbridge Middle Ear Implant Now Commercially Available from MED-EL
Monday, March 5th 2007
Durham, NC (January 31, 2007) MED-EL announced today the commercial availability of the Soundbridge middle ear implant in the United States. The Soundbridge is first U.S. Fo...
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Bone Conduction v. Middle Ear Implants
Monday, August 9th 2004
I have been reading about implantable hearing devices and am confused. Please explain the difference between bone conduction implants and middle ear implants.