Guest Articles

Heinz and Walter are two amateur musicians from Austria. The two of them don't only share a love for music. They also both use cochlear implants, and thanks to their hearing devices they can [...]

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 [...]

Meet Sarah, 18 years old, from North Carolina in the United States. Sarah’s sister Rachel has been using cochlear implants since the girls were little. In her guest article Sarah, who recently [...]

Núria from Spain is studying biomedical analysis at the University of Barcelona and started using the bone conduction hearing system ADHEAR a few months ago. Here she talks about her (hearing) [...]

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 [...]