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JLO surgical video: right selective neck dissection levels 2-5

6 September 2017 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Head & Neck
Surgical training has become more challenging following the introduction of the European Working Time Directive. The consequences of reducing the amount of time we operate has driven us to look for other resources to fill this gap. These initially began...

Take Early Action to Prevent or Address Hearing Loss

3 March 2021 | Company Profiles, Research & Development
The annual spotlight on hearing loss by the World Health Organization (WHO) delivers poignant messages to both policy makers and the public in order to stress just how widespread and life-changing hearing loss is.

4th Annual Inner Ear Disorders Therapeutics Summit

20 August 2024 -22 August 2024
Terrri Gaskell, Chief Technology Officer, Rinri TherapueticsHeld in Boston, USA, this was an essential gathering that captured the growing excitement in both the biotech and clinical communities surrounding the rapid advancements in hearing loss therapies. With the potential to significantly...

Should intratympanic steroids be the first line treatment for sudden sensorineural hearing loss?

1 July 2017 | | Idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss, intratympanic steroid treatment, meta-analysis, transtympanic steroid treatment
This article looked at whether intratympanic steroids (ITS) provide more benefits over systemic steroid therapy (SST) as initial therapy in patients with idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (ISSHL). This meta-analysis study, based on published RCTs, concluded that ITS treatment exhibited...

The role of metrics in studies of hearing and cognition

26 June 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Neurotology
Introduction When perceiving sounds in real-world listening environments, older adults encounter several sources of degradation that can interfere with the perceptual process (Figure 1). Target signals (i.e. the sounds that a listener wants to focus on) have specific acoustic characteristics...

Human immunodeficiency virus and hearing impairment

1 July 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Otology
With an estimated 36.7 million individuals living with HIV / AIDS and literature reporting that these conditions contribute to hearing loss, it is surprising that more focus and resources are not employed to tackle this major hearing health concern. Yolandé...

Precision and personalised genomic and epigenomic medicine in audiology/hearing loss

1 July 2021 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
A detailed look at the pathogenesis of acquired hearing loss due to exposure to ototoxicity during pregnancy or shortly after birth. Insights from genomic medicine have shown that, along with environmental factors causing epigenetic alterations, hearing loss may be caused...

Ear wax: the good, the bad, and the ugly

2 March 2022 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Otology
With ear wax removal being a core part of ENT and audiology services, Seth Schwartz gives us his dos and don’ts. We have all seen cartoons where a character pulls enough wax out of their ears to make a candle....

Audiology support for Philippine call centre employees

3 September 2024 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Call centre employees face unique challenges that impact their hearing health. BPO companies are implementing initiatives in the Philippines to safeguard their auditory wellbeing. The Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry in the Philippines is a dynamic and rapidly growing sector....

Anaesthesia under fire

1 November 2019 | | ENTA - General
Kate Prior is an anaesthetist who has, quite literally, been there, done that. In this article she manages to use words on a page to bring to life some of the conditions and challenges she faced as a member of...

Hyposalivation: a review of current and future treatments

8 January 2024 | | ENTA - Head & Neck
Hyposalivation remains a stubbornly difficult condition to treat, but novel therapies may not be far away. Saliva has many essential functions, including aiding digestion and swallowing, lubrication, maintaining tooth integrity and antibacterial activity. When patients experience reduced saliva production (hyposalivation),...

Papzimeos: a major advance in treating adult recurrent respiratory papillomatosis

3 July 2026 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Since the beginning of our specialty, generations of patients and surgeons have faced the challenging clinical problem of recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP). Driven by a persistent and chronic infection with low-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) types 6 or 11, it is...