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Help! I Can’t Understand the TV
Almost all of my patients complain about understanding dialogue on TV. Some shows or speakers are crystal clear while other speakers sound like they have marbles in their mouth! There are various reasons why TV…
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Need a Speaker for Your Group?
Several times a year I do educational talks for community groups. I speak at churches, social groups, senior centers and medical offices. I love getting out into the community and teaching people about hearing loss…
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Cochlear Gene Therapy and Totally Implantable Hearing Aids
The annual California Academy of Audiology convention was held in Berkeley this year. We had speakers on a variety of topics from balance assessment to hearing aids to business management. Two of the speakers presented…
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Hearing Success! classes start again
Our next round of classes that we’ve titled “Hearing Success!” started today at both our Concord and Walnut Creek locations. We know that just putting hearing aids on doesn’t necessarily mean that our patients hear…
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Battery Update
Several states in the U.S. have regulations against using mercury in batteries. Traditional hearing aid batteries have a small amount of mercury and manufacturers are changing their products to comply with the new regulations. When…
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Moisture Causes Many Hearing Aid Failures
If you have ever experienced fuzzy or distorted sound, weakness, static, intermittency, short battery life, or even all-out failure of your hearing aids, and you’ve con- firmed that the batteries are good, there’s a good…
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May is Better Hearing Month
Hearing loss is a serious condition that should not be ignored. Substantial research connects hearing loss with depression, diabetes, dementia and cardiovascular disease. Some research shows causation and some correlation, but all conditions have been…
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Made for iPhone Hearing Aids
Apple products have been taking over the market since the turn of this century. It is no surprise that we are now hearing about Made for iPhone hearing aids. Oticon has released their iPhone app…
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Time to celebrate!
This Thursday, May 1st from 3:00 – 5:00 we are opening the doors of our Concord office for a party. We are celebrating 30 years of business with a get together for a patients and…
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Expanded Hours in Walnut Creek
Traditionally, Concord has been our “main” location while Walnut Creek has been our “satellite” location. As the years have gone by, our patient base in Walnut Creek has been expanding. Now in addition to Tuesday/Thursday,…