Market

Oticon's Opn miniRITE rechargeable and new ConnectClip: 2 new solutions to VA audiologists

Details: Published on 02 May 2018

VA

Many hearing care professionals in the Veterans Affairs Administration have already experienced how Oticon Opn™ can bring the benefits of less effort, better recall and better speech understanding in noise to US Veterans and active duty military service personnel.

Andy Rihs 1942 - 2018

Details: Published on 19 April 2018

Manufacturers

Andreas (Andy) Rihs, swiss business man, owner of BMC cycling and Young Boys football team, and chief protagonist in the early development of Phonak, has died at the age of 75.

New type of hearing test app from Germany

Details: Published on 19 April 2018

App

Mimi hearing test — IPhone captions of the new app. © Mimi Hearing Technologies

Berlin-based company Mimi Hearing Technologies has developed a new type of hearing app to test the extent to which the user is not hearing 100%, reports Forbes magazine.

New partnership to develop a hearing screening mobile app

Details: Published on 17 April 2018

App

The American Academy of Audiology (AAA) has teamed up with hearX group, an e-health start-up from South Africa, to launch the first-ever intensive hearing screening mobile app in the United States.

American hearing aid sales increase by 5.7% in Q1 2018

Details: Published on 13 April 2018

Industry

US sales figures hearing aids — © MicroStockHub - iStock.com

Private sector sales increased by 7.2% and sales were stagnant (-0.5%) at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), giving a total growth percentage of 5.7% for the first quarter of 2018 in the United States.

Amplifon recently hosted a Capital Markets Day to present its strategy

Details: Published on 11 April 2018

Financial

The company hosted the Capital Markets Day at its headquarters in Milan, Italy on March 26 to announce its strategic pillars and financial targets for the 2018–2020 period.

Regulatory fast track for drug that targets chemotherapy-related hearing loss

Details: Published on 05 April 2018

FDA

Fennec Pharmaceuticals Inc., a small biotech operating from Durham, North Carolina, USA recently announced that it has been granted fast-track designation by the US FDA for its signature drug Pedmark (a unique formulation of sodium thiosulfate), WRALTechWire reports.

Delight Global receives approval from US FDA to market in the United States

Details: Published on 22 March 2018

Market

Korea-based start-up Delight Global recently received the green light from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its hearing aids in the United States.

Walgreens and Starkey launch Walgreens Hearing

Details: Published on 12 March 2018

Partnership

Walgreens and Starkey Hearing Technologies are collaborating on hearing health centers in Walgreens stores, and have launched the first two centers last month in Minneapolis.