Cochlear Implants
ENT surgeons say funding lack means deafness for many
Ear Nose and Throat Surgeons say they're frustrated and dismayed over a lack of government funding for cochlear implants for adults - saying 200 people a year are eligible but only 40 will receive the… Audio
Calls made for deaf people to receive Cochlear Implants
Andrew McRae talks to Ngaire Mathews, who is 75, about how she became a past-master at lip-reading and managed to get through her schooling without a hearing aid. She got her first hearing-aid at the… Audio
Tech news: the Facebook feed furore
Apple buys a New Zealand company that's developed an efficient way to move power around without wires, Amazon works on a way to deliver when you're not home and Facebook experiments with the display… Audio
Restoring hearing
Veronika Meduna visits Cochlear, a medical device company that produces bionic ears, to find out how cochlear implants could help some of the 700,000 New Zealanders who live with a hearing disability.
…Restoring hearing
Veronika Meduna visits Cochlear, a medical device company that produces bionic ears, to find out how cochlear implants could help some of the 700,000 New Zealanders who live with a hearing disability.
… AudioNights' Science - Body Parts
Professor Emerita in Science Communication at the University of Otago Jean Fleming, on (quirky) human anatomy... the structure of the inner ear (and how it hears)... Audio
Naked Science
Naked Science with Dr Chris Smith. This week, combining cochlear implants with gene therapies to restore people's hearing, and the role of smell in physical attraction. Audio
