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Today marks the day when the U.S. FDA is officially now overdue in issuing final regs for OTC hearing aids that were legislatively mandated by a bipartisan act championed by Elizabeth Warren and Chuck Grassley, signed into law by Trump in 2017, & spurred on by a Biden exec order in 2021

Indications are that the final OTC regs are getting close to release and now under review by White House @OMBPress. Will 40M Americans with hearing loss have to wait much longer to finally have direct access to affordable and effective hearing aids?? reginfo.gov/public/do/eoDe…

It's been over five years since I first testified on behalf of this bill in 2017 & these OTC HA regs are now long overdue! I'm getting tired of constantly telling my patients that OTC hearing aids should just be around the corner. energycommerce.house.gov/committee-acti…

White House OMB concluded their review of the final regs for OTC hearing aid on Aug 5! Will the final regs drop this week? If so, this would be nearly 5 years after the OTC hearing aid act was signed into law on Aug 18, 2017. A bit late but I'll take it! reginfo.gov/public/do/eoDe…

Note: White House OMB successfully concluded their review despite the last minute antics of organizations trying to schedule meetings with them to gaslight about issues called out in the report from Elizabeth Warren & Chuck Grassley warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…

My wife (who’s a vet) let me know today that my work has trickled down to the field of canine medicine! The study is small (no large epi studies among dogs!!) but it does prompt some interesting cross-species mechanistic questions news.ncsu.edu/2022/08/hearin…

Huge thank you to Nattawan Utoomprurkporn,MD,MSc,PhD and Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn U. for advancing the shared vision of hearing health for all. JHU Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health Frank R. Lin, MD PhD Jennifer Anne Deal Nicholas S Reed

Today, we took action to establish a new category of over-the-counter hearing aids, enabling consumers with perceived mild to moderate hearing impairment to purchase hearing aids directly from stores or online retailers. go.usa.gov/xSSxY

It’s happened!!! It’s happened!! Nearly exactly 5 years after the OTC hearing aid act was signed into law on Aug 18, 2017, the final regs have dropped!! bit.ly/3w8wAWf

Whoo hoo!!

Check out Nicholas S Reed on World News Tonight describing the significance and impact of OTC hearing aid for the tens of millions of Americans who stand to benefit!! It was 2:30am in Bangkok when Nick had to record this! youtu.be/oEBfmV9PrDM

I've never been keen to accept invitations to write an academic book on hearing loss mainly because no one would read it. Partnering with my friend & colleague, Nicholas S Reed, and AARP to write a For Dummies book on hearing loss, though, is an entirely different matter!!

We were able to help get this across the finish line through the extraordinary bipartisan efforts of Elizabeth Warren, Chuck Grassley and President Donald J. Trump. Updating Medicare regs to complement the availability of innovative OTC hearing aids is next on the list!

Thanks for inviting me, Kerri Haresign! Thrilled to be collaborating again with Consumer Tech Association to advance OTC hearing aids and the hearingnumber.org initiative from JHU Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health

Join us Thurs, 27 Oct at noon (ET) for our next Seminar Speaker. We will we welcome KR Liu (she/her) , disability advocate and Head of Brand Accessibility Google . Seminars are in person with a zoom webinar option. Info & full speaker lineup: bit.ly/3Qw7yrB

Thrilled and honored that we’ll be hosting KR Liu (she/her) from Google tomorrow for our monthly JHU Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health seminar! It’s not too late to register!

Hearing significantly improved for older adults who received low-cost hearing devices from community health worker program. Johns Hopkins OHNS Carrie Nieman, MD MPH Frank R. Lin, MD PhD @JAMA_Current hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/… via Hopkins Med News

It’s hard for me to believe that this study first began when Carrie Nieman, MD MPH began working with me as a resident. Seven years later, Carrie and her team have seen this project through to completion with the first hearing loss RCT ever published in JAMA in its 139 year history!

I think it's pretty cool when hearing aids get mentioned in a #SOTU address: "Millions of Americans can now save thousands of dollars because they can finally get hearing aids over-the-counter without a prescription." Hear, hear!!

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