This image shows a top down view of a cochlear implant electrode array in the left cochlea of a guinea pig. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Apr. 23, 2014, issue of Science ...

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 ...

The use of cochlear implants to treat children and adults with severe sensorineural hearing loss has made "incredible progress" over recent years, according to Christopher Bohr, MD, PhD, director of ...

The cochlear implant (CI) is the most successful neural prosthesis worldwide. Thanks to direct stimulation of the auditory nerve, it enables more than half a million people worldwide to hear, even ...

Pamela Bhatti from Georgia Tech displays cochlear implant. Despite their importance, cochlear implants leave much to be desired. But now, a group of researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology ...

The FDA has cleared its first robotic surgery system designed for placing cochlear implants in people facing hearing loss—in an entire package the size of a thumb. While the term robotic surgery ...

Zenek Luci was born deaf to a family in Welland, Ontario. He used hearing aids as an infant before receiving a cochlear implant in an operation, his father, Gabriel, says. "He was about one year old ...

Cochlear implant surgery may take place in a hospital or an outpatient surgical center. You will be put to sleep under general anesthesia during the procedure so you will not feel anything nor ...

This is an image of the inside of the cochlea after DNA delivery. The green spots show the location of cells that are expressing the therapeutic gene, which is close to where the cochlear implant ...