http://icscotland.icnetwork.co.uk/news/scottish/tm_headline=hearing-aid-procedure-innovative%26method=full%26objectid=33236560%26siteid=50141-name_page.html

This is a great article about a A Scot who has become one of the first people in the UK to undergo a "breakthrough" procedure to treat hearing loss.

Brian Hogg, 29, from Edinburgh, was fitted with a special Bonebridge implant and given a reconstructed ear using bone from one of his ribs in December last year. ...more

What hearing aid is right for me?

Great explanation of What hearing aid is right for me?

I have been wearing hearing aids since I was in in my teens.  They have always cost me thousands of dollars.  I just saw Sam's club is selling super cheep hearing aids.  Does anyone have any experience with these super cheep hearing aids?  I would love to test a pair out to see what the difference is between those and my $3000 dollar hearing aids.  http://www.samsclub.com/sams/hearing-aids/9155.cp

You have to wonder if there is a noticeable difference.  The reviews on Sam's website seem pretty good.  Comment with your experiences.

Interesting article from NPR explaining hearing loss.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/04/06/175945670/the-real-sounds-of-hearing-loss#

The Real Sounds Of Hearing Loss

by Audrey Carlsen

April 06, 2013 3:38 PM

It's easy enough to restore 20/20 eyesight with glasses or contacts. But even state-of-the-art can't perfectly restore hearing for people whose inner ears have been damaged by noise exposure, medications or just the wear and tear of aging.

Part of the problem is that this kind of — the result of permanent damage to the sensory cells of the inner ear — does more than just make sounds quieter. It can jumble the sounds, too, in ways that garble speech.
To give people with normal hearing an inkling of how wild these distortions can be, hearing and speech researcher created several audio clips for Shots. Each demo uses the same spoken sentence, but is distorted in a different way. (You can hear the original, undistorted sentence further down in this post. But before you do, take a listen to the demos and try to figure out what's being said.)
First up: Many people, especially those with age-related hearing loss, lose the ability to detect high-frequency sounds. Because consonants are typically higher-pitched than vowels, the loss of high frequencies can make it difficult to tell consonant sounds apart. As a result, speech sounds muddy — in some cases, almost beyond comprehension.  More...

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/what-i-hear/201302/where-is-the-steve-jobs-hearing-loss

Where Is the Steve Jobs of Hearing Loss?

Why are hearing aids so expensive, and so often ineffective?

Published on February 14, 2013 by Katherine Bouton in What I Hear

In response to my Times piece on the statistical association between hearing loss and dementia,many many writers complained about the cost and ineffectiveness of hearing aids. One writer wrote directly to me, a long and detailed note about his frustrations with hearing aids.

He wrote, in part:

"In today's world of microelectronics which can almost put a full PC on the head of a pin there's no excuse for why the industry can't design a hearing aid at a reasonable price with enough electronic complexity to nearly exactly compensate for the tested responce curve of a person's hearing."

Listen up: hearing aids go high-tech

Listen up: hearing aids go high-tech

CES 2009 New Hearing Aid Makes a Fashion Statement Users Can