Guest Articles

Every year on March 3 we join millions of people around the world to celebrate World Hearing Day. Why? To help raise awareness of hearing loss and help improve access to hearing care for both [...]

Sophie uses bone conduction implants and was the first bilateral BONEBRIDGE recipient in the UK. We caught up with her about her hearing journey and experience with SAMBA 2, the latest audio [...]

During her second pregnancy, Michaela from Bavaria was confronted with the diagnosis Cytomegalovirus (CMV). The consequence: congenital hearing loss for her daughter Marie. In today's guest [...]

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 [...]