Dave Carr parties with Ozzy Osbourne behind stage before a show in October 2007. Ozzy works with Starkey, a hearing device manufacturer and McGuires’ provider of the most advanced devices for hearing impaired customers.
Help America Hear and ReSound Organize Mission in Orlando
ReSound is collaborating with Help America Hear to provide hearing aids to 25 people in need during the annual AudiologyNOW! convention in Orlando, Florida. Bloomington, MN, March 12, 2014 – https://www.gnresound.com – ReSound, a technology industry leader in hearing aid solutions, is partnering with the Foundation for Sight and Sound to host a Help America… View Article
Signs of Hearing Loss and Ways to Prevent It
When it comes to managing a condition like hearing loss, it’s important to avoid tiptoeing around a crucial fact: in many cases, the dangers that cause it are permanent. Yes, there are ways to alleviate and overcome the issue through hearing aids and certain surgical procedures, but the natural functions of the ear, if damaged… View Article
McGuire’s Hearing Center Merger
The McGuire family of audiological centers has been a New York institution for quite some time now. Since we were established in 1970, our practice has seen nothing but steady growth across the Long Island, the Bronx, and Westchester, and now, with the opening of our newest wing within the Union Community Health Center in… View Article
Signs of Hearing Loss and Ways to Prevent It
When it comes to managing a condition like hearing loss, it’s important to avoid tiptoeing around a crucial fact: in many cases, the dangers that cause it are permanent. Yes, there are ways to alleviate and overcome the issue through hearing aids and certain surgical procedures, but the natural functions of the ear, if damaged… View Article
Listening Challenges
For the past few months there has been an exhibit at the Rubin Museum in New York called The World is Sound. The Rubin is a museum that brings together art and science, and allows us to see things in multi-faceted and often new ways. In this exhibit visitors were invited to slow down and… View Article
Looking down the road…. a glimpse at some amazing research.
When Ludvig van Beethoven realized that his hearing was fading, he felt that his joy was fading as well. We don’t know what caused his hearing loss, nor was there technology at the time that could help him. Two centuries later, however, researchers are working with a strain of mouse called…yes, Beethoven, to use gene… View Article
Generous Listening
My absolute favorite interviewer is Krista Tippett, the Peabody Award-winning host of the radio program On Being, and the New York Times best-selling author of Becoming Wise. I love to listen to her interviews, which delve into the mysteries of human existance, because she listens so openly and respectfully. Ms. Tippett says that listening is… View Article
Calling All Grandchildren!
Hearing aid technology has made phenomenal advances, and is highly interactive with the soundscape so that the listener has a better chance than ever to hear well and comfortably. And yet, hearing aids are only part of the prescription for better hearing. Good listening strategies and strong, kind family support are as important as ever…. View Article
Please Pass the Pie!
Please pass the pie! Now that you’ve finished your shopping, chosen the wines, cleaned the house, baked the pies, and taken out the platters, let’s add one more thing to your holiday preparations: plan how you can make it easier for your guests who have some hearing loss to fully partake in the conversation. Folks… View Article