{"id":9473,"date":"2016-12-07T08:16:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T16:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/fda-takes-steps-to-improve-hearing-aid-accessibility\/"},"modified":"2016-12-07T08:16:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T16:16:00","slug":"fda-takes-steps-to-improve-hearing-aid-accessibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/fda-takes-steps-to-improve-hearing-aid-accessibility\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA takes steps to improve hearing aid accessibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced important steps to better support consumer access to hearing aids. The agency issued a guidance document explaining that it does not intend to enforce the requirement that individuals 18 and up receive a medical evaluation or sign a waiver prior to purchasing most hearing aids. This guidance is effective immediately. Today, the FDA is also announcing its commitment to consider creating a category of over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids that could deliver new, innovative and lower-cost products to millions of consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced important steps to better support consumer access to hearing aids. The agency issued a guidance document explaining that it does not intend to enforce the requirement that individuals 18 and up receive a medical evaluation or sign a waiver prior to purchasing most hearing aids. This guidance &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/fda-takes-steps-to-improve-hearing-aid-accessibility\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FDA takes steps to improve hearing aid accessibility<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4,3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-reacalls-safety-notices-information","category-drug-safety-information-podcasts","category-food-drug-recalls","category-food-safety-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}