The significance of hearing care - as in both audiologists and hearing technology - is increasingly being pushed up the health ladder. And a recent case of a Specsavers customer getting life-saving advice from his audiologist brightens the spotlight on this importance.

ShengWang, the Chinese hearing aid chain of some 500 stores this month fully acquired by the Danish hearing giant Demant, brings the makers of Oticon and Philips devices 5% of the Asian country's retail market share.

The UK audiology community was shocked and saddened Wednesday (June 15) at the announcement by NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre of the death of its Clinical Hearing Sciences Group lead, Reverend Professor David Baguley.

There's just a summer to go - and you know how those fly - until the expansive halls of the Hanover Deutsche Messe convention centre in Germany opens its doors to the audiology world. EUHA is coming, and the organisers' annual video invitation is already here.

And we thought hearing instrument fittings were getting simpler, writes top audiologist Raúl García-Medina.

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), the standards mover and shaker for the short-range wireless tech now crucial for our key electronic gadgets - and hearing aids - has announced its next major enhancement: Auracast.

Loudness is one of the key factors related to overall satisfaction with hearing aids. Neither gain calculations based on audiograms nor loudness-based hearing aid fittings with narrowband signals guarantee normalisation of loudness perception for binaural broadband signals. This article reveals the great individual variabilities found in binaural broadband loudness summations, a hitherto undocumented aspect and one that is paid too little attention in practice.