Guest Articles

Meet Silvia, an employee at our MED-EL headquarters in Innsbruck, Austria. Silvia works in Manufacturing and assembles SONNET and SONNET 2 audio processors. But hearing implants are also feature [...]

Denice, a MED-EL cochlear implant recipient, wrote a hearing loss book, and in this guest story you can get an exclusive peek into her life and the book.

For seven years, 13-year-old Valentin from Austria could only hear in one ear. While his hearing loss remained undetected for a long time, the effects of single-sided deafness on his development [...]

Sheila from Brazil was one of the participants of the first-ever MED-EL Meetup in 2018. Read more about her experiences at our HQ in Innsbruck and why, for her, it was a dream come true.

HearPeers mentor Anette from Denmark was born with normal hearing. In her mid-twenties she suddenly lost her hearing on one side and had to learn how to deal with everyday life with single-sided [...]

When Jessica and Stefan decided to get married, they assumed it would be a small event. Jessica’s hearing loss made it difficult to socialise in large groups, and she didn’t want to spend her big [...]

Michaela from Austria knows what really matters for children with hearing implants. After all, she is the mother of two cochlear implant users herself. In today's guest article she talks about [...]

After Ilan from the US experienced painful MRIs with his old cochlear implant, he decided to switch to a MED-EL CI. Read on to find out more about why MRIs are much more comfortable for him now, [...]

What do you do if your child is born profoundly deaf but can’t have a cochlear implant? For 5-year-old Louie from New Zealand, this was exactly the case. Louie was born without auditory nerves, [...]

After frequent middle ear infections as a child, Lina from Germany noticed hearing loss in her left ear, which was gradually affecting her everyday life more and more. Several surgeries later [...]