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September 12, 2012
 

 
Testing, Testing... Can You Hear Better Now?
By Melinda Beck, Columnist for the Wall Street Journal

To many people, hearing loss represents another step in the dreaded march to old age. In fact, only about 20% of the 36 million Americans who could benefit from a hearing aid actually use one, according to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Diseases.
  
Many audio-speaker manufacturers are jumping into the hearing-aid market due to a recent FDA ruling that hearing-assist devices could be sold over-the-counter. Click here to read the full article on the Wall Street Journal website.
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