Easy listening

Between five and 10 per cent of people living in Europe will suffer from serious hearing problems at some point in their lives. The main cause is age and the next most common cause is noise.

Old-style hearing aids were bulky, unsightly and not very comfortable to wear. But in 1989 in Lynge, near Copenhagen, work began on a new generation of hearing devices.

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