NASA’s Office of the Chief Technologist Recognizes Adam Kissiah’s Invention NASA’s Office of the Chief Technologist recognizes technology developed by NASA that has benefits for the entire nation.  In the article “Hearing is Believing”, Adam Kissiah is recognized for the technology he developed while working as an engineer at NASA.  Driven by his own hearing problem and three failed corrective surgeries, Kissiah started working in the mid-1970s on what would become known as the cochlear implant, a surgically...

Newborn Babies At Risk Of Hearing Loss And Intellectual Disability Pregnant women and newborns should be routinely screened for cytomegalovirus (CMV) to prevent hearing loss and intellectual disability in infants, according to research in the Medical Journal of Australia. Read the full article

Hearing Loss Linked to Chronic Kidney Disease Published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases, and highlighted on the National Kidney Foundation web site, a team of Australian researchers found that older adults with moderate Chronic Kidney Disease have a higher prevalence of hearing loss than those of the same age without Chronic Kidney Disease. Read the full article at...