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May is Better Hearing Month.

1.5 billion people globally live with some form of hearing loss. Most don't have access to expensive solutions.

We're working on accessible alternatives. Not perfect, but progress. An app that costs less than dinner out. A device with four buttons.

Small steps toward closing the gap.

#BetterHearingMonth #accessibility #HearingLoss

NewsletterTF 19h ago

Tears of Sound: A Young Man's Auditory Awakening

A 28-year-old man in Los Angeles can hear sounds clearly for the first time after a cochlear implant was activated. He shares his emotional experience.

#CochlearImplant, #HearingLoss, #LA, #NewSounds, #MedicalBreakthrough

https://newsletter.tf/la-man-hears-for-first-time-cochlear-implant/

NewsletterTF 19h ago

A 28-year-old man in Los Angeles heard for the first time thanks to a cochlear implant. This is a life-changing event for him.

#CochlearImplant, #HearingLoss, #LA, #NewSounds, #MedicalBreakthrough
https://newsletter.tf/la-man-hears-for-first-time-cochlear-implant/

LA Man Hears for First Time After Cochlear Implant

A 28-year-old man in Los Angeles can hear sounds clearly for the first time after a cochlear implant was activated. He shares his emotional experience.

NewsletterTF

The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News [Unofficial]2d ago

The gene behind congenital deafness, and how a single shot is fixing it

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.optimistdaily.com/2026/05/the-gene-behind-congenital-deafness-and-how-a-single-shot-is-fixing-it/

N-gated Hacker News Apr 27

🎉 Wow, the #FDA finally figured out what genes are! 🧬 Their #groundbreaking #approval might just cure your hereditary inability to hear reason. 🤦‍♂️ Let's hope they can gene-edit their way to a solution for selective hearing next. 🙉
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-ever-gene-therapy-treatment-genetic-hearing-loss-under-national-priority-voucher #GeneEditing #HearingLoss #Innovation #HackerNews #ngated

FDA Approves First-Ever Gene Therapy for Treatment of Genetic Hearing Loss Under National Priority Voucher Program

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Otarmeni (lunsotogene parvec-cwha), the first-ever dual adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector-based gene therapy.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Hacker News Apr 27

FDA Approves First-Ever Gene Therapy for Treatment of Genetic Hearing Loss

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-ever-gene-therapy-treatment-genetic-hearing-loss-under-national-priority-voucher

#HackerNews #FDA #GeneTherapy #HearingLoss #MedicalInnovation #GeneticResearch

FDA Approves First-Ever Gene Therapy for Treatment of Genetic Hearing Loss Under National Priority Voucher Program

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Otarmeni (lunsotogene parvec-cwha), the first-ever dual adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector-based gene therapy.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Mike 🇬🇧 🇪🇺Apr 14

Dozing off with your head on one side while wearing your hearing aids.
Kids - just don't do it!

Ouch!

#HearingAids #HearingLoss

Børge Apr 13

Does this product exist?

A microphone that you can connect via Bluetooth to any BT speaker or receiver (like a hearing aid) to make that speaker into a sort of PA system?

It seems so obvious that this should exist. But searching I seem to only find these stupid LLM generated articles, and microphones sold with its own speaker or its own receiver that you need to plug in to an aux input. Am I being stupid?

#askfedi #hearingaid #hearingloss