Technology

When considering a cochlear implant, either for themselves or for their child, people often ask whether they should wait for future technology before getting implanted. But the short answer is: [...]

There is no cochlear implant without a first fitting. After having their CI implanted, every user needs audiological adjustments in order to best adapt the implant system to individual [...]

One of the biggest steps in your child’s hearing journey is picking a cochlear implant system for your child. There are a few different cochlear implant companies out there and at first glance, [...]

No matter if you use RONDO 3 or a SAMBA 2, Design Covers are a great way to change the look of your audio processor and adapt it to your style. At MED-EL we know that lots of you like wearing [...]

Bone conduction implants come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. There are bone-anchored hearing aids (BAHA) implants, which use a metal screw to transfer sound to the bone, magnetic BAHAs that [...]

Ever wondered how we make such reliable hearing implants? Or how bone conduction implants work? Or how hearings aids and cochlear implants can work together? We asked three of the experts behind [...]

Can old people get cochlear implants? Is cochlear implant surgery dangerous? Can I fly with a hearing implant? There are lots of rumors about cochlear implants out there. But just how true are [...]

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 [...]

Have you just been told you need an MRI? Not sure what to expect? Well if you have a MED-EL cochlear implant, there’s nothing to worry about! We’ve put together a list of the most commonly asked [...]