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Neosensory Buzz: can a wristband really help with sound awareness and tinnitus?

4 November 2021 | | ENTA - Audiology - Auditory Implants, ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Tinnitus
As an audiologist, I am always looking for alternative and innovative solutions for patients who have tried all other traditional approaches. What else can I offer to patients who struggle to hear, even with appropriate amplification, or those who struggle...

Treatment regret in head and neck cancer – trading function for survival

2 July 2025 | | ENTA - Head & Neck
Treatment for H&N cancer can be extremely tough for patients. How do we explain the likely impact as they try to make decisions? And what happens when they regret their choice? Treatment regret is a form of decision regret, involving...

In conversation with AAA President, Jackie Clark

1 January 2018 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
Jackie Clark, PhD, is a clinical audiologist, professor of audiology, and researcher. She is also the new President of the American Academy of Audiology (AAA). While on an annual working trip to South Africa, Jackie answered a few questions about...

From Hippocrates to COVID-19: sniffing out the disease

1 July 2021 | | ENTA - ENT
The ancient Greek physician, Hippocrates, used the ‘art of smell’ to diagnose diseases around 400BC. He also formulated miasmatic theory, which posited that disease is caused by bad smells. Bad air was strongly believed by many physicians to be the...

The art of hearing: a conversation between silence and colour

4 September 2025 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - General
The image on the ENT & Audiology News September/October 2025 cover is not merely an artwork – it is a conversation. A conversation in colour. A dialogue between silence and sound, between science and emotion. It is part of a...

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...

Hearing matters in New Year's Honours

7 January 2026
Emeritus Professor David Kemp from the UCL Ear Institute, widely known for his discovery of otoacoustic emissions, has been made a CBE for services to auditory sciences and public health. Robert Nolan, chair of Deafblind UK, was awarded OBE for services to people living with deafblindness.

Hubert Struycken and his monochord: when otologists still played the violin

3 September 2026 | | ENTA - Otology
It is almost impossible to imagine audiometry today without electronic tone generators, digital electronics or computers. At the beginning of the last century, however, the otologist relied on much simpler tools: a pocket watch, a tuning fork, or a Galton...

In conversation with Professor Patrick Gullane: My life in Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery

1 September 2014 | | ENTA - ENT
Fellowship RCSEng 2009. Patrick, as you have recently ‘stepped down’ as Chairman and Chief of ORL-HNS at Toronto General Hospital, what next? Firstly, so often I have been asked why I selected this career path, from a quote by Johnny...

Systemic agents in thyroid cancer

1 July 2017 | | ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Thyroid / Parathyroid Surgery
For those patients who have disseminated or unresectable thyroid cancer, Dr Arabella Hunt and Dr Kate Newbold review systemic treatments, their differences, toxicities and outcomes. Thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine malignancy. It is subdivided into differentiated (papillary, follicular...

First UK hypoglossal nerve stimulation implant in the treatment for moderate to severe OSA

25 April 2023 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Obstructive sleep apnoea has been treated in many different ways over the years. We hear from Yakubu Karagama about one of the latest surgical developments. Introduction Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is by far the most common sleep disorder, affecting all...

Clinical guidance: using the NAL-NL3 Fitting System in practice

7 May 2026 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
NAL-NL3 modernises hearing aid prescription with modular, evidence-based modules, improving real-world comfort and communication for diverse listening needs. Hearing aid prescription has long relied on a single, audiogram-based formula to guide amplification. While this approach has delivered reliable outcomes for...