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China approves its first home-grown brainstem hearing implant for children
China's National Medical Products Administration approved Zhejiang Nurotron's WH-01A auditory brainstem implant on 19 October 2026. Developed with Wu Hao's team at Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, it is approved for children aged 2 to under 6 who lost their hearing before learning to speak and cannot use a cochlear implant because of a severely malformed inner ear or a missing cochlear nerve. In the US, the only approved auditory brainstem implant is limited to patients aged 12 and over with neurofibromatosis type 2.