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鈥淚t鈥檚 comparable to how streaming completely upended the recording industry or to the iPhone coming out in 2007,鈥 said Danny Aronson, CEO of Tuned, a digital hearing company based in New York City. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a fundamental game changing shift in an industry that for decades has been completely dominated by an oligopoly of five hearing aid manufacturers.鈥澛(Perna, 10/17)
Milestone Pharmaceuticals said Monday that an experimental nasal-spray medicine acted quickly to treat people experiencing episodes of a rapid but non-fatal heart rate 鈥 more than doubling the conversion to normal heart rhythm and achieving the primary goal of a late-stage clinical trial. (Feuerstein, 10/17)
鈥淵ou constantly heard everyone getting told to use their walker. If one of us fell, it would be a disaster,鈥 she said during a recent interview. She spoke to her daughter, who was working at Hasbro Toys at the time, and said there needed to be a product out there that would make a noise and attract seniors to use their walker. (Gagosz, 10/17)