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Hundred of thousands of people around the world can hear thanks to our implants. But getting here was a long journey. It goes back almost 50 years to when MED-EL CEO Ingeborg Hochmair and her [...]

Did you know that February 11 is International Day of Women and Girls in Science? In honor of this special day, today’s blog post will give you a glimpse behind the scenes of MED-EL HQ in Austria [...]

Looking for a fun activity you can do at home with the entire family? We proudly present the latest addition to our collection of activities you can from your living room: MED-EL Jigsaw puzzles [...]

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.

When their twin sons Alexander and Lukas were born, life as a family started for Matthias and Sandra from Austria. But then they learnt that Alexander has hearing loss, and the young parents were [...]

Meet Santino: a thirteen-year-old bilateral cochlear implant user from the Philippines. Read on to find out more about Santino’s life with hearing implants and his big dreams for the future!

A bone conduction implant can help someone with hearing loss to hear. Learn about the different types of implants and their pros and cons.

For many years, Sarah from the United States did not want to have a cochlear implant. But when she trained as an audiologist, she discovered that hearing implants would give her the freedom to [...]