Source: AMA Morning Rounds 3/18/2010
Hearing aid with no externally visible components receives FDA approval.
The Los Angeles Times (3/17, Healy) "Booster Shots" blog reported, "For several decades, people with hearing loss due to noise, viral infections or aging have had hearing aids to help maintain an aural tie to the world." Now, after a receiving approval from the FDA, "these patients will" have access to "a surgically implantable hearing system called Esteem." What's more, the "new device is considered to be the first hearing aid that has no externally visible components."
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