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With Bethan working in London, during the week it is just Hobbes and I at home. While Hobbes is great company on his morning walk he does have limitations during the evening when all he tends to do is stretch...

Whether you have chosen to purchase your hearing aid from Hearing Direct, or from any other retailer, it will require a power source in the shape of a battery to provide the necessary functionality. Hearing aid batteries are manufactured by...

Last Friday we took Hobbes, Bethan’s Springer spaniel of high breeding but low behaviour, back to the specialist vet centre for what we prayed was his final visit. He had long ago consumed his insurance threshold with the same ease...

I love the end of February in the northern hemisphere. I don’t feel quite so like a mole anymore - there’s at least a hint more light when I leave the house in the mornings and the office in the...

A thought provoking piece of research emerged out of America this week linking hearing loss with dementia. As with all these things, more research needs to be done, however, the research suggested that with untreated hearing loss, dementia can be...

The end of the month of January means different things to different people. For me, it is the demise of the first “dark month”, dark months being January and February, and being the longer of the two, a positive signal...

HD 430 Digital Hearing Aid I had two interesting conversations with customers in the last few days which started me thinking about the variety of consultation approaches adopted by private hearing aid dispensers in the UK. Whilst there can be...

This weekend, when you are digesting your Sunday lunch, I will have to come in to the office to do the stock take, a mundane few hours of counting endless hearing aids, tubes, domes, packets of batteries, accessories –the list...

While hearing aids vary from one another in terms of their features, type, prices (and even colors!), they all require the use of a device that produces electricity. Perhaps one day hearing aids will be powered by different sources of...