{"id":121477,"date":"2021-04-13T07:22:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T14:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/hearing-aids-for-the-masses"},"modified":"2021-04-13T07:22:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T14:22:45","slug":"hearing-aids-for-the-masses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/hearing-aids-for-the-masses","title":{"rendered":"Hearing AIDS for the Masses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hearing-aids-for-the-masses2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine Apple, Bose or other consumer electronics companies making hearing aids more stylish and relatively affordable \u2014 with people having confidence that the devices had been vetted by the F.D.A. Bose told me that it\u2019s working on over-the-counter hearing aid technology.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<em class=\"\">This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can <\/em><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/newsletters\/signup\/OT\" title=\"\"><em class=\"\">sign up here<\/em><\/a><em class=\"\"> to receive it weekdays.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On Tech is back from a spring break, and the magnolia trees are blooming outside On Tech headquarters (a.k.a., my New York apartment).<\/p>\n<p>Today, let\u2019s talk about relatively simple technology and a change in government policy that could unleash more innovation for Americans who have difficulty hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine Apple, Bose or other consumer electronics companies making hearing aids more stylish and relatively affordable \u2014 with people having confidence that the devices had been vetted by the F.D.A. Bose told me that it\u2019s working on over-the-counter hearing aid technology. This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1490,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-government","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}