Guest Articles

34-year-old Stefanie from Germany has had hearing loss since her early childhood. She started using a cochlear implant four years ago. For a long time, a CI wasn't an option for her. In today's [...]

Linnea from the United States loves drawing and horseback riding, she is a university student – and a bilateral cochlear implant user. For her, her hearing loss – caused by Usher’s Syndrome – was [...]

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.