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Cochlear Implant
UK sources of information and / or support
National Cochlear Implant Users Association
The NCIUA is the Association that represents all Cochlear Implant users in the United Kingdom. It is open to all implant users, their family and friends.
The Ear Foundation
National UK charity to support deaf children and young people with cochlear implants, their families and supporting professionals.
HEAR - Help Ear and Allied Research
HEAR is working with Manchester Royal Infirmary in the treatment of severe to profound deafness. The charity is also working to develop CI technology which is designed for the auditory rehabilitation of a specific small group of totally deaf individuals. HEAR is also involved with new programmes looking at the effectiveness of semi-implantable and totally implantable hearing aids.
World of Sound
This campaign-based website has been designed to champion the cause of cochlear implants by discussing the issues surrounding the procedure and talking to professionals and members of the public to put forward their points of view.
Royal National Institute for the Deaf
The RNID provides a factsheet concerning cochlear implants.
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- Non-UK self-help / support group sites
More detailed medical information
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- PatientPlus - hundreds of medical reference articles provided by Patient UK.
- Evidence Based Medicine - such as from Clinical Evidence, The Cochrane Library, etc.
- Database of UK Clinical Guidelines - from NICE, SIGN, Clinical Knowledge Summaries, etc.
- Medline - abstracts available from thousands of journals.
- Sites listing free online medical textbooks and journals.
- Sites listing free medical images - pictures, atlases, anatomy, skin diseases, etc.
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