Observed arrival · 2026-09-07
Hearing Index puts 34 over-the-counter hearing aids under a microscope
An open, cited dataset compares U.S. OTC hearing aids across price, total cost, risk, evidence, and FDA-trace fields.
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The interface separates product claims into evidence, risk, total-cost, and regulatory-trace views rather than collapsing them into a single ranking. Visitors can inspect model-level fields such as price range, evidence tier, SoundScore, FDA trace type, and MFi status, then export the visible dataset as CSV or JSON. The displayed release is frozen at 2026-09-07, and the page reports that 33 of 34 rows contain a non-null FDA trace.
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