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How will our grandchildren view COVID-19?

25 June 2020 | | ENTA - General
Alan Johnson, known to our readers as the former President of ENT UK, gives us his thoughts on the COVID pandemic, looking at it through the lens of other health crises. As I write, COVID-19 is displacing almost all other...

Head and neck cancer multidisciplinary team

30 April 2020 | | ENTA - Head & Neck
Why do we have MDTs? Do they make a difference to outcomes? Jon Bernstein explores the whys and wherefores of the head and neck cancer MDT, and wonders where things might go from here… Head and neck (upper aerodigestive tract)...

The role of YO-IFOS in enhancing collaboration between young physicians in Europe

1 January 2019 | | ENTA - General
Young ENT surgeons realise the importance of international collaboration – we hear about a group that was formed just 18 months ago. During the meeting of the International Federation of Otorhinolaryngological Societies (IFOS) in 2017 in Paris, a group for...

IFOS activities

1 September 2018 | | ENTA - General
International collaboration is more important than ever, and we hear from Prof Milan Profant about a collaboration that grew out of the very successful IFOS meeting in Paris in 2017. IFOS has developed a new philosophy regarding how to organise...

The doctor – pharmaceutical company relationship

1 March 2015 | | ENTA - General
‘Which drug rep is taking us out tonight?’ We have heard this phrase uttered at conferences since meetings began, but as Dylan said ‘those times they are a changing’ thanks to the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) and...

Medical Journals and The Journal of Laryngology and Otology

4 November 2021 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA - Otology
Medical journals have a fascinating history. One early journal, The Lancet, was founded in 1823 and its first Editor, London surgeon Thomas Wakley (1795-1862), had a turbulent life. He lived in an era where quackery was rife and where the...

Random-pattern skin flaps: part 4 - transposition flaps

2 September 2022 | | ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
In the final part of our series on local skin flaps (see Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3) in ENT, the authors describe the usefulness of the transposition-type flap and highlight some examples. Rotational advancement flap Useful for defects...

Foreign object removal from the ear or nose

1 July 2014 | | ENTA - ENT
The range of nasal and aural foreign bodies that present to accident and emergency (A&E) departments, emergency rooms and minor injury units is limited only by the imagination. Aetiology and epidemiology statistics point to patients being predominantly children in the...

Cambodian Otology Fellowship report

1 May 2016 | | ENTA - Otology
Further to a Humanitarian News article published in the November/December 2014 issue of ENT and Audiology News (see article here), this is a report of Charlie Huins’ six-month experience as the first ENT Fellow at the Children’s Surgical Centre (CSC),...

The Laryngeal Pacemaker – developing an innovative solution for bilateral vocal fold paralysis

4 July 2024 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Bilateral vocal fold paralysis is a difficult condition to manage, with surgical interventions previously limited to tracheostomy or arytenoidectomy. Re-innervation surgery has been developed and, in recent years, a Laryngeal Pacemaker is now in clinical trials. We speak to two...

The Laryngeal Pacemaker – developing an innovative solution for bilateral vocal fold paralysis

4 July 2024 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Bilateral vocal fold paralysis is a difficult condition to manage, with surgical interventions previously limited to tracheostomy or arytenoidectomy. Re-innervation surgery has been developed and, in recent years, a Laryngeal Pacemaker is now in clinical trials. We speak to two...

Opening ceremonies – a necessary evil?

6 November 2024 | | ENTA - General
This series of stories is dedicated to those of you with whom some of these moments were shared (or endured) and, above all, to my amazing and long-suffering husband, David Howard. Most of you know him as an exceptional head...