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Apple Hearing Study identifies link between tinnitus and heart rate variability

by Helen Carter

The study found heart rate variability was generally lower when participants reported that tinnitus interfered more with hearing, sounded louder, lasted longer, or occurred more frequently. Image: littlepigpower/stock.adobe.com.

Tinnitus

A large study has found that heart rate variability (HRV), which can be an indicator of stress, is associated with tinnitus. The link was uncovered during analysis of data from more than 72,000 people in the large Apple Hearing Study...

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The course includes resources to equip teachers and other staff with the confidence and knowledge to support deaf and hard-of-hearing students in mainstream schooling. Image: Deaf Children Australia.

Paediatrics

Deaf Children Australia launches free short course to make classrooms deaf-friendly

Falls of Australians aged over 65 years old cost the health system more than $2.8 billion annually, the new guidelines say. Image: Wesley/peopleimages.com/stock.adobe.com.

Ear conditions

New falls guidelines urge hearing assessment on aged care admission and annually

Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer's famous Girl with the Pearl Earring painting from 1665 now sports a cochlear implant with Deafmetal’s golden safety chain featuring pearls, and coil hat over the transmitter. The model is Aileen Gansloweit. Photo: Nicole Mantello/Deafmetal.

Products

Deafmetal cochlear implant and hearing aid jewellery recreates famous art

As the population ages, more people will live with both hearing loss and stroke. Image: Peakstock/stock.adobe.com.

Soapbox

Prioritising hearing health in stroke recovery

Policy & Regulation

New falls guidelines urge hearing assessment on aged care admission and annually

by Helen Carter

Falls of Australians aged over 65 years old cost the health system more than $2.8 billion annually, the new guidelines say. Image: Wesley/peopleimages.com/stock.adobe.com.

Ear conditions

New Australian falls guidelines recommend facilitating access to hearing assessment and management for people in residential aged care facilities (RACS) on commencement of care and annually. They also recommend assessing aged care residents and hospital patients complaining of dizziness and...

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Some members of the HHSA meeting in person in Melbourne and online in March 2025. Online are from left, Professor Piers Dawes (University of Queensland), Les Stahl (independent facilitator); bottom, Associate Professor Sandra Bellekom (Ear Science Institute Australia), Dr Brent Edwards (National Acoustic Laboratories). Image: Prime Creative Media.

Hearing Health Sector Alliance

Hearing Health Sector Alliance – you’re the voice

Pharmacists don’t have the training required to properly diagnose medical conditions, the RACGP says. Image: Joke Phatrapong/stock.adobe.com.

Workforce

Doctors claim pharmacist prescribing for ear infections threatens patient safety

The HPCCB said livestreaming or audiovisual recording of patient consults for training purposes would be a potential breach of the Code of Conduct for audiologists and audiometrists. Image: Have a nice day/stock.adobe.com.

Regulators

HPCCB warns video recording patient consults for training unethical and likely illegal

One new rule is a 50% cut to the amount claimable for travel to deliver home and community-based therapy services. Image: Benjamin Crone.

NDIS

NextSense says NDIS Pricing Review will impact sector, and review reveals hearing supports

Company updates and acquisitions

GN says sustainability is integrated into its fundamental business strategy. Image: Raul Mellado/stock.adobe.com.

GN rates highly in Newsweek’s World’s Greenest Companies 2025

Specsavers Audiology continues to be recognised for trusted service in Australia and New Zealand

Record profitability for Amplifon

Healthscope enters administration; private hospitals remain open, buyer is sought

Careers

The course includes resources to equip teachers and other staff with the confidence and knowledge to support deaf and hard-of-hearing students in mainstream schooling. Image: Deaf Children Australia.

Deaf Children Australia launches free short course to make classrooms deaf-friendly

Prioritising hearing health in stroke recovery

Call for more ENT training in junior doctors after survey finds gap in skills

Choosing the right path in audiology

Products

Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer's famous Girl with the Pearl Earring painting from 1665 now sports a cochlear implant with Deafmetal’s golden safety chain featuring pearls, and coil hat over the transmitter. The model is Aileen Gansloweit. Photo: Nicole Mantello/Deafmetal.

Deafmetal cochlear implant and hearing aid jewellery recreates famous art

Review confirms hearing aids and cochlear implants improve social outcomes for adults with hearing loss

Preventing falls after hearing loss: Starkey’s Edge AI Balance Assessment Tool

The future-proofed cochlear implant

Features

Call for more ENT training in junior doctors after survey finds gap in skills

by Helen Carter

Only half of those surveyed could correctly identify pathology from otoscopic images or identify anatomical landmarks of the ear. Image: Krackenimages/stock.adobe.com.

ENT/otolaryngologists

DR NICK SCHNITZLER’s survey confirms a gap in otological examination skills among junior doctors in Australia and identifies a strong desire for more structured ENT training. By Dr Nick Schnitzler Ear-related conditions are a common presentation in primary care and...

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Some members of the HHSA meeting in person in Melbourne and online in March 2025. Online are from left, Professor Piers Dawes (University of Queensland), Les Stahl (independent facilitator); bottom, Associate Professor Sandra Bellekom (Ear Science Institute Australia), Dr Brent Edwards (National Acoustic Laboratories). Image: Prime Creative Media.

Hearing Health Sector Alliance

Hearing Health Sector Alliance – you’re the voice

(Top) An audiology graduate has many career paths they can follow. (Below) UWA audiology alumni, the audiology teaching team, audiologists and scientists at the 25th anniversary celebrations of the UWA's Master of Clinical Audiology. Images: Rawpixel/stock.adobe.com and UWA.

University and training

Choosing the right path in audiology

From left, Dr Julia Crawford, scientific co-convener with keynote speakers, Prof Stephen Park, Dr Katie Fedder, Dr Shazia Peer, Dr Velda Chow, Dr Derek Lam, Dr Babak Azizzadeh and Prof Manohar Bance, with scientific co-convener Dr Megan Hobson. Image: ASOHNS.

ENT networks

Record attendance for ASOHNS 75th annual scientific meeting

The Audiology Australia 2025 Conference dinner at Adelaide Oval was also a big hit. Image: Audiology Australia from Event Photos Australia.

Audiology Australia

Raising the bar: Audiology Australia 2025 Conference wrap

Events

From left, Dr Julia Crawford, scientific co-convener with keynote speakers, Prof Stephen Park, Dr Katie Fedder, Dr Shazia Peer, Dr Velda Chow, Dr Derek Lam, Dr Babak Azizzadeh and Prof Manohar Bance, with scientific co-convener Dr Megan Hobson. Image: ASOHNS.

Record attendance for ASOHNS 75th annual scientific meeting

Inaugural Deaf Ecosystem Summit to showcase the power of Deaf-led innovation

Raising the bar: Audiology Australia 2025 Conference wrap

Innovate to fly: Indepth report on Hearing Business Alliance’s 2025 Seminar in Melbourne

Treatments

Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer's famous Girl with the Pearl Earring painting from 1665 now sports a cochlear implant with Deafmetal’s golden safety chain featuring pearls, and coil hat over the transmitter. The model is Aileen Gansloweit. Photo: Nicole Mantello/Deafmetal.

Deafmetal cochlear implant and hearing aid jewellery recreates famous art

Beyond the noise: Honouring lives and building hope on World Misophonia Day

Doctors claim pharmacist prescribing for ear infections threatens patient safety

Review confirms hearing aids and cochlear implants improve social outcomes for adults with hearing loss

Diagnostics & Equipment

The Balance Assessment Tool on the patient’s phone and My Starkey app assess strength, balance and gait through sitting, standing and walking exercises. Images: Starkey.

Preventing falls after hearing loss: Starkey’s Edge AI Balance Assessment Tool

New AI tool to remotely detect dizziness and balance disorders

UWA opens paediatric soundproof booth for audiology research and student training

2025 Endeavour Awards – Celebrating excellence in Australian manufacturing

Research

The study found heart rate variability was generally lower when participants reported that tinnitus interfered more with hearing, sounded louder, lasted longer, or occurred more frequently. Image: littlepigpower/stock.adobe.com.

Apple Hearing Study identifies link between tinnitus and heart rate variability

New falls guidelines urge hearing assessment on aged care admission and annually

Prioritising hearing health in stroke recovery

Call for more ENT training in junior doctors after survey finds gap in skills

Australia

Quarter of nation’s audiologists make Audiology Australia 2025 Conference a huge success

by Helen Carter

Delegates in the Adelaide Convention Centre's main plenary hall enjoying the Audiology Australia 2025 Conference presentations. Image: Audiology Australia.

National

A quarter of Australia's audiologists were treated to exceptional presentations that educated, upskilled, reskilled and enlightened them at the Audiology Australia 2025 Conference in Adelaide. More than 1,000 delegates attended the nation's premier hearing health event of the year at...

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International

Speakers are, left column, Dr Angela Alexander (top), Dr Alexandra Sturrock (middle), Dr Makino Kashino (bottom). Middle column, Dr Philippa James (top), Dr Patrick Dwyer (bottom). Right column, Dr Bonnie Lau (top), Dr Tegan Keogh (middle), Dr Yang Zhang (bottom.) Images: IAA.

Conferences

IAA hosts multi-disciplinary autism and listening conference online in May

The animation of the vertigo attack mechanism in Menière’s disease shows a proposed mechanism – that the tiny Valve of Bast opens and stimulates the vestibular system. Image: Vimeo.

Meniere's disease

Menière’s disease patient Stephen Spring and surgeon Bill Gibson develop animation

From left, Dr Jan-Willem Wasmann, VCAA2025 conference co-organiser and founder of the Computational Audiology Network, and keynote speakers Professor Dorothea Kolossa, Assistant Professor Giovanni Di Liberto and Dr Brent Edwards. Image: Computational Audiology Network.

International

Call for abstracts for free 2025 Virtual Conference on Computational Audiology

NAL director Dr Brent Edwards releasing details of the NAL-NL3 at the AAA conference in March 2025. Image: NAL.

Hearing aid fitting systems

Groundbreaking NAL-NL3 fitting formula reveals new ways of fitting hearing aids

Classifieds

Image: Specsavers Audiology.

Join us as an employee at Devonport/Burnie, Tasmania

Join us as an employee in Cairns, Queensland

Partnership opportunity, Bass Hill & Bonnyrigg NSW with $40,000 sign on bonus

Manage to own, guaranteed $150,000 package; Specsavers Audiology Wagga Wagga & Griffith NSW

Education

Only half of those surveyed could correctly identify pathology from otoscopic images or identify anatomical landmarks of the ear. Image: Krackenimages/stock.adobe.com.

Call for more ENT training in junior doctors after survey finds gap in skills

Choosing the right path in audiology

Survey on audiological practices to manage HL in adults with limited benefits from hearing aids

King’s Birthday honours for audiologist Emeritus Professor Philip Newall and ENT surgeon Dr Peter Chapman

Audiology

Doug Perkins said the honour was recognition for the 45,000 people around the world who work for Specsavers. Image: Specsavers.

Specsavers co-founder Doug Perkins made a CBE in King’s Birthday Honours

Specsavers Audiology continues to be recognised for trusted service in Australia and New Zealand

Hearing Australia offers free PD for educators in National Reconciliation Week

HBA seminar in Perth to focus on transforming small business models

Audiometry

(Top) An audiology graduate has many career paths they can follow. (Below) UWA audiology alumni, the audiology teaching team, audiologists and scientists at the 25th anniversary celebrations of the UWA's Master of Clinical Audiology. Images: Rawpixel/stock.adobe.com and UWA.

Choosing the right path in audiology

Inaugural Deaf Ecosystem Summit to showcase the power of Deaf-led innovation

NextSense says NDIS Pricing Review will impact sector, and review reveals hearing supports

First NZ Power of Connection event shines a light on children with hearing loss

ENT Surgery

Neural progenitor cells forming synaptic connections. The therapy makes auditory progenitors (the early forms of mature sensory cells in the cochlea) from stem cells. When delivered to the cochlea, they can become functional auditory neurons, re-establishing nerve connections in the cochlea. Image: Arthaphan/stock.adobe.com.

Rinri Therapeutics to start first stem cell trial in humans aiming to reverse hearing loss

Jacquie Petrusma; blazing a trail as our first politician with a cochlear implant

Passe & Williams Foundation opens new round of grants, announces new fellowship

ANZ Hearing Health Collaborative develops guidelines for cochlear implantation in adults

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