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How loud is too loud? Smart ways to monitor noise exposure through your headphones

7 January 2020 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
As an audiologist, an increasingly common concern patients have is noise exposure from their headphones and how it will impact their hearing over time. It’s a legitimate worry considering the average adult is streaming audio content on their mobile devices...

World Hearing Day 2023

5 February 2023
The World Health Organization (WHO) is to launch a training guide on 3 March 2023 to mark this year’s World Hearing Day.

Relationship between early language delays and long-term outcomes

1 January 2018 |
This epidemiological study from Australia, spanning 16 years, explores the influence of early language delays over time on outcomes in affected adults. Based on vocabulary skills at age five, the study population was classified into four groups: persistently good, persistently...

FESS for recurrent acute rhinosinusitis: at last, some data

1 March 2017 | | case-control studies, cost-benefit analysis, outcome assessment, patient outcome assessment, sinusitis
As noted in both the EPOS 2012 and in the (more recent) ICARS 2016, there is a paucity of evidence on the effectiveness of surgery for recurrent acute rhinosinusitis (RARS). The authors used a control group of patients with CRSsNP,...

Laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) in posterior laryngitis

1 January 2015 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA - ENT | Posterior laryngitis, Laryngo-pharyngeal reflux, Motilin, Functional gastrointestinal disorder, Health-related quality of life
The authors of this study investigated the prevalence of acid reflux in the proximal oesophagus and functional gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with posterior laryngitis. They analysed plasma motilin as well as health-related quality of life (HRQOL) questionnaires before and after...

A path to leadership

3 July 2023 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
In this article we learn more about the Ruth Thomsen’s journey in audiology and healthcare science, exploring the opportunities on the road less travelled. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by,And that has...

Mapping the financial and disease burden of hearing loss and associated interventions

4 May 2021 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology
The prevalence and burden of ear and hearing disorders is huge and, historically, has been underappreciated. Globally, unaddressed hearing loss poses a growing public health challenge, requiring urgent attention from policymakers, health professionals and civil society. The recently published World...

Mapping the financial and disease burden of hearing loss and associated interventions

4 May 2021 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology
The prevalence and burden of ear and hearing disorders is huge and, historically, has been underappreciated. Globally, unaddressed hearing loss poses a growing public health challenge, requiring urgent attention from policymakers, health professionals and civil society. The recently published World...

Supporting music listening through cochlear implant services – experience from a UK adult clinic on supporting musical engagement

3 September 2021 | | ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology
The perception and enjoyment of music is central to many people’s lives. Harriet Crook (herself a cochlear implant recipient) tells us about important work in this area for people using hearing aids and CIs. There is now a wealth of...

DP Medical brings pioneering sinus surgery wound healing gel to the UK

9 July 2024 | Contracts & Distributors
DP Medical Systems Ltd. has been named as the exclusive UK and Ireland supplier of Chitogel™ – a pioneering wound healing gel for use in endoscopic sinus surgery.

ENT in this issue...Global Ear and Hearing

4 May 2021 |
GUEST SECTION EDITORS Prof Mahmood F Bhutta, DPhil FRCS (ORL-HNS), Consultant and Honorary Professor in ENT Surgery, University Hospitals Sussex and Brighton & Sussex Medical School, UK. E: m.bhutta@doctors.org.uk Prof Jackie L Clark, MS, PhD, Clinical Professor, Behavioral & Brain...

Promoting proactive hearing health: Synchrony's latest findings

3 September 2024 | Research & Development
Hearing health is a top concern for most consumers, with 70% reporting it is a priority, yet proactive management is rare, with only 10% of consumers noting they visited an audiologist in the past year, according to a study conducted by Synchrony on behalf of their leading healthcare financial solution, CareCredit.