Frances Gatta is a freelance health writer with experience covering health care technology, general health, mental health, femtech and personalized nutrition for companies and publications like Oura, ...

A 68-year-old walks out of an audiologist’s office with a quote for a mid-range pair of hearing aids: $5,800. She is on ...

Vivienne Ober is a spunky 9-year-old. She loves the color purple and playing with her kid sister. But Vivienne is among the roughly 3 in every 1,000 children the National Institutes of Health says are ...

ANDOVER — An Andover High School senior is using her own experiences to advocate for change in the state to ensure insurance coverage for people of all ages who need hearing aids. Flanagan was ...

This study examined state-level Medicaid hearing aid coverage for adults ages twenty-one and older across the United States. Using policy surveillance principles, we compiled a cross-sectional data ...

More than half of U.S. states require health insurance plans to cover hearing aids for children, but California does not. One ...

PHOENIX — More than a quarter of seniors experience hearing loss, yet health insurance coverage varies, making crucial tools like hearing aids inaccessible to many. The Miracle-Ear Foundation aims to ...