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- 2-9-2016
Hear good sounds!
It was the motto of a social awareness campaign run this summer in seaside regions by the M.Karłowicz Philharmonic Orchestra in Szczecin. As part of this campaign the Mobile Hearing Center has been conducting hearing tests in 3 seaside cities. Our aim is raising the awareness of music in our region – said Dorota Serwa, the Director of M.Karłowicz Philharmonic Orchestra. – …
- 30-8-2016
Holiday hearing screening
Legionowo, Włocławek, Tarnowo Podgórne, Pruszków, Solec Kujawski, Inowrocław, Miastko, Płońsk, Kalisz, Stegna, Ciechanów, Stalowa Wola, Augustów, Grajewo, Kutno and Otwock. These Polish cities hosted this year the ‘Lato z radiem’ (‘Summer with a radio’) – a summer holiday radio program broadcasted ‘live’ since 1971 (the program celebrated this year its 45th anniversary). This year the team of Polish …
- 15-7-2016
2nd International Music Festival for Children, Youths and Adults with Hearing Disorders “Beats of Cochlea” has come to an end
The Festival culminated in the Gala Finale that took place in the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. Around 700 guests arrived to see the concert. The organizer of the event was the World Hearing Centre of the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing with the support of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music and the Institute …
- 12-7-2016
Anniversaries in July
July is a month of the most important anniversaries in the history of the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing. In 2016, when we are celebrating the jubilees of 20th anniversary of the Institute and 25th of the Polish program of deafness treatment these dates are particularly meaningful. Twenty four years ago, on 16 July 1992, Prof. Henryk Skarżyński as the …
- 20-6-2016
Hearing screening in children in rural districts of Zachodniopomorskie voivodeship.
On 17th June 2016, a press conference was held dedicated to screening hearing examination program conducted among children from primary schools in rural districts (gminas) of Zachodniopomorskie voivodeship. Results of this screening program presented on the conference showed that even one child in five in the Zachodniopomorskie voivodeship may be at risk of hearing problems. Screening results were by 2.2 percentage points worse than in 2010. …
- 24-5-2016
Anniversaries in May
Two anniversaries important for the history of the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing fall this year in May: 13th anniversary of the opening of the International Center of Hearing and Speech and 3rd anniversary of the opening of the World Hearing Center. None of these institutions would come into being without scientific achievements, huge …
- 15-10-2015
Prof. Henryk Skarżyński has been appointed the Director of the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing for 5th term
The Minister of Health, Prof. Marian Zembala – acting based on Art 24 Section 2 of the Act of 30 April 2010 on Research Institutes – has appointed Prof. Henryk Skarzyński the Director of the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing a the 4-year term. Prof. Skarżyński commenced his 5th term of office as the Director on 8 October 2015. The Institute of …
- 24-8-2015
Press conference – New program of hearing screening in a new school-year
A Program of Hearing Screening in Primary School Children in Rural Districts will begin in a new school-year. It will encompass more than 140 thousand students, mostly first graders. In future, we are planning to create the first in the world network of telediagnostics and telerehabilitation, said Prof. Henryk Skarżyński at press conference in the PAP Press Centre on 19 August 2015. New hearing screening program will be implemented …
- 20-7-2015
Gala Ceremony of the 1st International Music Festival for Children, Youths and Adults with Hearing Disorders ‘Beats of Cochlea’
The Gala Concert which took place on 16th July 2015 in Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio, with the accompaniment of the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra directed by Krzesimir Dębski was the crowning event of the 1st International Music Festival for Children, Youths and Adults with Hearing Disorders ‘Beats of Cochlea’. Festival is an original project initiated by Professor Henryk Skarżyński, …
- 20-4-2015
The World Voice Day at the University of Music
The World Voice Day was celebrated with special lectures on the role of voice in the modern information society and the diagnostics and therapy of voice disorders in professional voice users. The event took place on 16 April 2015 in the Karol Szymanowski Auditorium of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Warsaw (UMFC). On behalf of the Wold Hearing Centre of The …
- 27-3-2015
About singing, speaking and emotions for professional voice users on the World Voice Day.
Voice is not only a mechanical acoustical phenomenon, it can transmit moods and emotions. Voice emission is a subject of research in laryngology, phoniatrics and audiology as well as physics, acoustics, phonetics, linguistics and psychology. Voice – similarly to hearing – is crucial for development of the modern, information-based society. Prof. Henryk Skarżyński will address this topic in his lecture inaugurating the World …
- 4-3-2015
New generation of cochlear implants – another breakthrough in partial deafness treatment
On 3rd of March 2015 (International Day for Ear and Hearing), in the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing in Kajetany, the first in Poland implantation of a new generation cochlear implant was performed. This novel implant is unique as it allows performing MRI scans and thus, in the future, it will allow tracking changes in brain after the administration of acoustic …
- 3-9-2014
First in Poland implantation of the Cochlear™ MET® middle ear implant system
One of the foundations of the modern society is the unprecedented progress in human relations, availability and exchange of information, development of information technologies and tools. An integral part of this development is the utilization of our sense of hearing, voice, speech and language communication. While at the beginning of 20th century individual’s functioning and position in the …
- 10-6-2014
I see tremendous progress
People of Freedom were elected – as in the elections held on June 4th, 1989 – by the votes of Polish citizens – to represent the Polish success in different fields – highlighted Bronislaw Komorowski, President of Poland, during a gala to celebrate the outcome of the plebiscite of TVN and “Gazeta Wyborcza” People of Freedom. In the category of “Science” won Prof. Henry Skarżyński. …
- 28-5-2014
Unique brainstem implantation surgeries in Kajetany
On 23-24 of May, 2014, in the World Hearing Center, the unique surgical procedures in neurosurgery and otosurgery took place. Prof. Henryk Skarżyński organized international team which performed hearing restoring surgeries in patients suffering from rare cancerous disease, neurofibromatosis of type 2. These are complicated procedures, which include extraction of brainstem’s tumors and implantation of auditory implant to the brain stem. …
- 11-5-2014
Hearing screenings in older people in Siedlce
Experts from the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing, who have a lot of experience in screening tests in newborns and school-age children, conducted pilot studies in older people in the Mazovia Regional Hospital in Siedlce. On that occasion Professor Henryk Skarżyński gave a lecture on the possibilities of the treatment of hearing disorders in patients over 65 y.o. The percentage of older people …
- 31-10-2013
First in Central and Eastern Europe implantation using Baha® 4 Attract System
First in Central and Eastern Europe implantation using Baha ® 4 Attract was conducted in the World Hearing Center of the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing. This innovative device was implanted by Prof. Henryk Skarzynski, Director of the Institute, on October 30th, 2013. Using bone conduction Baha® 4 Attract delivers amplification more effectively than air conduction hearing aids. …
- 1-8-2013
11th Continental – European Congress of Auditory Implants and New Technologies (ESPCI 2013 series)
On May 23-26th 2013, in Istanbul, Turkey, took place 11th Continental – European Congress of Auditory Implants and New Technologies (ESPCI 2013). In this year’s meeting participated nearly 2000 ENT physicians, audiologists, phoniatricians, pediatricians, biomedical engineers and other specialists representing 85 countries. The Team of the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing represented: Prof. Henryk Skarżyński MD, PhD, …