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  • Earlens Shares FDA Historical Ruling on OTC Hearing Aids

    Earlens Shares FDA Historical Ruling on OTC Hearing Aids

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    updated: Sep 6, 2022


    MENLO PARK, Calif., September 6, 2022 (Newswire.com)
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    Earlens, a privately held medical technology company transforming the way people hear with a new class of non-surgical hearing technology, supports the FDA’s ruling to create a new category of Over the Counter (OTC) hearing aids. Hearing loss, a medical epidemic associated with dementia, depression and social isolation, affects an estimated 30 million people in the United States. Despite the high prevalence and public health impact of hearing loss, only about one-fifth of people who could benefit from a hearing aid seek intervention.

    While this new ruling may address a few of the barriers that impede the adoption of hearing aids, such as perceived hearing benefit relative to price and access, it will not address the top two complaints of hearing aid users: understanding speech in background noise and sound quality. The new over-the-counter hearing aids work in the same way as the traditional hearing aids widely available by prescription today. They amplify sound through a tiny speaker in a limited bandwidth. Unlike traditional hearing aids, Earlens works with the natural hearing system by gently vibrating the eardrum via a tiny, custom-built lens, which delivers 2.5X the audible bandwidth of traditional hearing aids, resulting in significantly better speech understanding in noise and improved clarity. 

    “With the changing landscape in the hearing space, Earlens is well positioned to assist the many people that are dissatisfied with traditional air-conduction hearing aids, whether they are purchased in a store, through a dispenser, or over the counter. Earlens’ differentiated technology and unique care model places highly trained hearing healthcare professionals at the forefront of hearing loss treatment. Earlens is committed to transforming the hearing experience for millions of people who suffer from hearing loss”, said Bill Facteau, Earlens President & Chief Executive Officer.

    About Earlens

    Earlens is a privately held medical technology company that has developed the Earlens® hearing solution. With more than 185 US and international patents, Earlens was named to Time Magazine’s list of the top 100 inventions of 2020. Earlens is exclusively available from a growing network of highly trained Ear, Nose & Throat physicians and audiologists who are supported by a dedicated concierge team. For more information, please visit www.earlens.com.

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    Connon Samuel

    Chief Operating Officer

    1-844-234-LENS (5367)

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  • Former first lady Rosalynn Carter has dementia, Carter Center says | CNN Politics

    Former first lady Rosalynn Carter has dementia, Carter Center says | CNN Politics

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    Rosalynn Carter, the former first lady of the United States and wife of former President Jimmy Carter, has dementia, the Carter Center announced on Tuesday.

    “The Carter family is sharing that former First Lady Rosalynn Carter has dementia. She continues to live happily at home with her husband, enjoying spring in Plains and visits with loved ones,” the center announced. Additional details about Carter, 95, were not immediately provided and the Center said it did not expect to comment further.

    The Center said that, in sharing news of Carter’s diagnosis, it helped to “increase important conversations at kitchen tables and in doctor’s offices around the country.” As first lady, Carter made mental health advocacy her platform and formed a presidential commission on the matter during her time in the White House, a legacy that continues today.

    President Carter, 98, began home hospice care in February after a series of short hospital stays.

    The Bidens have “stayed in touch” with the former president’s team to “ensure that their family knows that they are certainly in the president and first lady’s thoughts,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at a Tuesday press briefing.

    At an event in Norcross, Georgia, last week honoring the former president, President Carter’s former UN ambassador, Andrew Young, described the former president to WSB-TV as being in good spirits during a visit with him last month.

    “They’re coming to the end,” the Carters’ grandson, Jason Carter, said at the event. “He’s going to be 99 in October, but right now, it’s sort of the perfect way for them to spend these last days together at home in Plains. They’re together, and they’ve been together for 70-plus years.”

    Rosalynn Carter traveled across the country and the world as first lady in support of breaking mental health stigmas.

    “Since 1971, Rosalynn had been a champion of mental health issues, and her leadership in this cause continues even now,” President Carter wrote in “White House Diary,” an annotated account of his time in the White House published in 2010.

    Carter continued, “She mounted a worldwide crusade to reduce the stigma associated with mental illness and helped persuade the World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control to include mental health on their agendas.”

    Dementia is a broad term for an impaired ability to remember, think and make decisions, according to the CDC. People with dementia may have trouble with memory, attention, communication, judgment and problem-solving, and visual perception beyond typical age-related vision changes.

    Dementia is not a normal part of aging, according to the National Institute on Aging, but about one-third of all people age 85 and older may have some form of dementia.

    This story has been updated with additional background information.

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