On the heels of a successful launch of their Android App, NOWiHEAR will launch the iOS version of their app, complete with the BHI quick hearing check.  The free mobile app is designed to test consumer’s knowledge of their hearing loss and aid them in addressing their hearing loss issues by providing a quick and easy directory of AuDNet Audiologists.

Last week, an industry partner of AuDNet, Inc. (AudiologyOnline) published an article written by our President & Founder, David Smriga. The article, entitled "Are We (Still) Asleep At The Wheel? An Update from Seven Years Ago", explores the changes, or lack thereof, in the Audiology industry with regard to marketing and positioning themselves as THE hearing experts and go to professionals for hearing health.

Marine Lance Cpl. David Goldich was operating the gun turret on top of a Humvee when a roadside bomb, rigged with a 155 mm artillery shell, detonated beside him.

“It knocked out our vehicle commander, blew out fuel tank, shredded our tire,” Goldich recalled about the summer night in 2006 outside of Fallujah, Iraq. The explosion caused physical damage to the serviceman, too; it punctured Goldich’s right eardrum.

Hearing loss is one of the most prevalent health complaints in adults over the age of 60 and a major factor in speech comprehension difficulties. The goal for researchers at the Departments of Neurology and Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and the Volen National Center for Complex Systems at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts was to examine the effects of hearing ability on the brain processes supporting spoken language processing in adult humans.

The study, published in The Journal of Neuroscience, utilized functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to monitor activity in the brain while older adult subjects with normal-level hearing for their age listened to sentences that varied in the amount of linguistic comprehension needed to understand them...