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A cheaper second entrant into a new category of tinnitus treatment device. Tinnitus — persistent ringing with no external source — has no cure, and the treatments doctors are told to offer are counselling and hearing aids. In 2023 the FDA (US Food and Drug Administration) created a new device category for a different approach: playing sounds through headphones while delivering small timed electrical pulses to the body, so the brain re-learns to suppress the phantom sound. The device that created that category stimulates the tongue. This one would deliver the electrical half through a skin patch on the face or neck instead, be fitted remotely rather than in a clinic, and sell for less — aimed first at veterans, among whom tinnitus is unusually common.
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