FDA Approves Hearing Device Implant 

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Food and Drug Administration (news - web sites) has
approved a brain implant device that may restore some hearing for patients
who became deaf after tumors were removed from auditory nerves. 

The device, called the Nucleus 24 Multichannel Auditory Brainstem Implant, or
ABI, is approved for use in teen-agers and adults with neurofibromatosis Type
II, an inherited condition that affects about one American in 40,000. 

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