Bio-logic Systems Corp. Launches New Disposable for Infant Hearing Screening Market to Compete With Natus.
MUNDELEIN, Ill., July 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Bio-logic Systems Corp. (Nasdaq: BLSC) today announced that it has launched a new disposable Ear Muffin(TM) for the ABaer(TM) infant hearing screening system. This product broadens the Company's infant screening line by adding a disposable over-the-ear earphone for delivering sound stimuli...

University of Pittsburgh Partners With India to Establish a School Of Rehabilitation Sciences.
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- The University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (SHRS), one of the top programs of its kind in the United States, has been asked by the Government of India to help establish a similar institution in the South Asian country....

Vestibular findings in a patient presenting with tinnitus.
A 75-year-old woman presented with a chief complaint of constant tinnitus of 2 months' duration. She described it as a hissing sound in the left ear and/or on the left side of her head. She reported no tinnitus in the right ear or the right side of the head....

Bio-logic Systems Corp. Signs Agreements With Novation, The Largest Supply Cost Management Company in Health Care.
MUNDELEIN, Ill., April 23 /PRNewswire Interactive News Release/ -- Bio-logic Systems Corp. (Nasdaq: BLSC), a designer and marketer of computerized medical electrodiagnostic equipment, today reported that it has signed two contracts with Novation, the supply company of the VHA and University Health Systems Consortium (UHC), as a dual-source supplier...

Hearing impaired children need unbiased advice: implant awareness.
ORLANDO, FLA. -- Most parents do not receive unbiased information about options for their children with hearing loss, Donna Sorkin said at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery Foundation. Pediatricians who know what parents of a hearing-impaired child may face can...

Noise to Reach Dangerous Levels at Super Bowl; Noise Exposure is Nation's #1 Cause of Hearing Damage.
TAMPA, Fla., Jan. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Roaring fans. Fireworks. Aerosmith and N'Sync. Post game celebrations. The noise surrounding the NFL's biggest game will send thousands home with hearing damage, and hearing aid manufacturer GN ReSound will be there encouraging fans to protect their hearing while they're cheering....

Testing for hearing loss in children.
Hearing impairment is the number one birth defect. The prevalence of hearing loss in the general population of infants and young children ranges from one in 750 to one in 2000. In the "at-risk" population that figure is 30 to 60 times higher than in the general population. "At-risk"...

Maximizing Brain Injury Recovery: Integrating Critical Care and Early Rehabilitation.
Maximizing Brain Injury Recovery: Integrating Critical Care and Early Rehabilitation Mackay LE, Chapman PE, Morgan AS. Gaithersburg, MD 20878, Aspen Publishers Inc, 1997, hardcover, 621 pp, illus, $79. This book is a collaborative effort among the authors--a speech pathologist, a physical therapist, and a physician-with the help of 10...

Rehabilitation Assessment: Audiologic Findings Over a 3-Year Period.
People are living longer lives due to advances in medicine, science, and technology. In the past two decades, the population of those people less than 65 years of age grew 19% while the population of those greater than 65 years rose by 56% (Weinstein & Clark, 1989). By the...

Enabling America: Assessing the Role of Rehabilitation Science and Engineering.
Edward N. Brandt, Jr. Andrew M. Pope Editors Washington, D.C. National Academy Press 1997, 404 pp. Publisher's Price: $47.95 plus $4.00 for shipping and handling. This book is comprised of a report prepared for the U.S. Congress by the Institute of Medicine. The report contains an assessment...