Fourteen years ago, six-year-old Rizwana's world was silent, threatened by a profound hearing impairment that threatened to shut her out of the world of sound. Today, she is Dr P V Rizwana, an ...

Ten-month-old Amir Hayden sits on his mother’s lap inside a sound-proof booth at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals audiology clinic in Oakland, as audiologist Sarah Coulthurst, MS, takes him through a ...

She does gymnastics and loves music and singing. She’s always requesting songs in the car. She loves playing dress up and princess and barbies. She loves helping her mom in the kitchen. At just four ...

A seemingly ordinary household event, the playful scratches of a new kitten, has been implicated in one of the most unusual device infections reported in the medical literature. Physicians at Columbia ...

A 103-year-old man in Cumbria broke two world records when he became the oldest person in the world to receive a cochlear implant and the oldest person globally to undergo a subtotal petrousectomy. In ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Steven covers accessibility and assistive technologies. Late last month, cochlear implant maker Cochlear announced a coalition ...

Ten-month-old Amir Hayden sits on his mother’s lap inside a sound-proof booth at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals audiology clinic in Oakland, as audiologist Sarah Coulthurst, MS, takes him through a ...