In Photo: Austrain scientist-inventor of the cochlear implant Dr. Erwin Hochmair (center) leads the experts’ Philippine visit with Med-El’s Special Project Manager Maribel Mueller and German surgeon ...

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 ...

Cochlear implants are among the most successful neural prostheses on the market. These artificial ears have allowed nearly 1 million people globally with severe to profound hearing loss to either ...

In Photo: The author with Ingeborg Hochmair. A GERMAN couple is wielding technology to break the barriers to sound. Ingeborg and Erwin Hochmair, inventors of the first micro-electronic multichannel ...

Hearing aids are small, battery-operated devices that a person can wear in or behind the ear. They help people with mild-to-profound hearing loss hear better by amplifying sounds. Hearing aids ...