A patient's age upon receiving a cochlear implant can influence the technology's effectiveness. Cavan Images/Cavan via Getty Images Cochlear implants are among the most successful neural prostheses on ...

Cochlear implants allow people with hearing loss to experience sounds in the environment. All this sensory information can lead to a situation called hearing or listening fatigue. Share on Pinterest ...

For the hearing-impaired, cochlear implants can be absolutely life-changing. But few of us actually know what it sounds like to slip on one of those tiny wearable devices and hear words, voices and ...

A cochlear implant is an electronic device used for people who are severely hard of hearing or deaf. They require surgery to ...

Ray Cathey is on a journey from silence to new sounds. Cathey's hearing took a pounding when he was an air rescue paramedic ...

A cochlear implant may benefit those with severe hearing loss. Implanted in the cochlea, it has many advantages, but there are also drawbacks. The cochlea is the spiral-shaped organ in your inner ear.

A four-year-old boy from Oklahoma, born with congenital CMV, experiences the world of sound for the first time after ...

Baelin and Aveon Poole, ages 11 and 10, are siblings who had back-to-back cochlear implant surgeries on the same day at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. Their implants were also activated on the same ...

Holly the elf has cochlear implants just like Ann Redmore. When a little girl who wears cochlear implants was out of school, magic happened. Ann Redmore is a first grader at St. James School in ...

Stephanie Watson is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in numerous consumer health publications, including WebMD, Greatist, Healthgrades, HealthCentral, SurvivorNet, Harvard Health ...