Founded in 2007, Denmark’s Ida Institute is dedicated to the health of people with hearing loss. Its new four-part course, however, is aimed at another group: the medical professionals whose jobs can compromise their own health.
The 66th International Congress of Hearing Aid Acousticians and the accompanying Industry Exhibition will open on 12 October 2022, providing insights into innovations in the field of hearing.
Congratulations to Daniël Christiaan De Wet Swanepoel for being one of the recipients of the University of Pretoria’s 2023 Academic Achievement Awards.
The NHS Five Year Forward View promoted seeing patients closer to home in order to provide better care, cut down on missed appointments and reduce costs. This encouraged the development of ‘hub and spoke’ models of care, but this model...
Does anyone remember COVID? It seems that what happened between 2019 and 2021 is all but forgotten about. Aside from it cropping up on news feeds occasionally and a few out-of-date automated phone messages that start off with ‘During the...
“The National Health Service is in serious trouble.” This is the opening line of the introduction of Lord Darzi’s report to the Secretary of State for Health in England. His deep dive into the current state of the NHS in...
Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are becoming increasingly prevalent in our lives and there has been both enthusiasm and caution for using AI in healthcare. A recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported on a trial examining...
In the last 20 years, rates of adult tonsillectomy have fallen in the order of 50%. The flipside to this, is that the number of admissions of patients with acute tonsilitis is more than double the reduction in tonsillectomy rates....
Restful sleep is crucial for health but conditions like obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) can significantly disrupt it, leading to fatigue, cardiovascular issues, and other serious health problems. Polysomnography (PSG) remains the gold standard for OSA diagnosis [1], however it is...