I thought long and hard about whether I should get a second cochlear implant. But I'm glad I did. We recently activated my second implant, and it's as big a miracle as the first. In January I decided to go ahead if I qualified, and after several months of preliminary testing and insurance screening, I had successful implantation surgery on my left side on March 30. We … [Read more...] about Five Reasons I Went All In With A Second Cochlear Implant
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Life At The Cutting Edge: FDA Weighed Tradeoffs In Approving Hybrid Cochlear Implant
In approving Cochlear Ltd.'s Nucleus Hybrid L24 Implant System for use in the United States, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had to balance some serious demonstrable risks against many obvious benefits of the new implant system. The biggest problem some early users experienced -- complete loss of their low-frequency hearing in the implanted ear -- might seem to … [Read more...] about Life At The Cutting Edge: FDA Weighed Tradeoffs In Approving Hybrid Cochlear Implant