Around 48 million people in the U.S. alone suffers from hearing loss, and even though hearing aids and implants help people their aren’t cures. Wedbush’s David Nierengarten goes into further detail how much of a problem hearing loss is and that there is not an approved cure for hearing loss.

For more on David Nierengarten’s comments: Investors are pouring hundreds of millions into startups working to treat hearing loss. Here are the 4 biotechs vying to disrupt the $7 billion market.

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