Not all disabilities are visible. Hearing loss affects nearly 16% of Americans — that’s 40 million adults aged 18 or older who have trouble hearing in some way that affects their day-to-day life.

This week, the FDA announced that hearing aids can be purchased over the counter (OTC) without a prescription from an audiologist. In addition to assisting with everyday hearing, many new devices will ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For improved clarity during phone calls and listening to entertainment, it might be time to try a Bluetooth hearing aid.

Aging baby boomers, increasingly suffering from hearing loss, often are reluctant to wear hearing aids, which they associate with, um, aging. A bit of Apple cachet could change that, and two Twin ...

More online at www.VirginiaHearingAids.com. There exists an excellent chance that your current hearing aid is equipped with Bluetooth technology, particularly if you purchased it recently. Bluetooth ...

Addressing the disparities in assistive device access among the 48 million Americans with hearing loss, the FCC has ruled that all "mobile handsets" (read: smartphones) must be compatible with hearing ...

The FCC has approved a regulation requiring 100% of all mobile handsets sold in the US to be compatible with hearing aids. The rule requires phone makers to abandon proprietary Bluetooth coupling ...

The new rules will go into effect after a transition period, and also require that phones meet volume-control benchmarks. CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is ...

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--www.beltone.com – Chicago-based Beltone Electronics announced that it has received the prestigious International CES Innovations 2011 Design and Engineering Award for the ...