Testing, Testing…Can You Hear Better Now?


Wall Street Journal
Published Sept. 10, 2012
By Melinda Beck

MDHearingAid featured in Wall Street Journal’s ‘Testing, Testing…Can You Hear Better Now?’

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.

Now, a wave of new devices that are smaller, hipper and sold over-the-counter are trying to win over more consumers—and appeal to the growing number of younger people with hearing damage from loud music.