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Giacomo Puccini’s laryngeal cancer

Giacomo Puccini, one of the best known composers of all time, was diagnosed with laryngeal cancer and died from the disease in 1924. In this article, Rosario Marchese-Ragona and Alessandro Martini describe Puccini’s experience of the disease with quotes from...

Differing outcomes of three Sub-Saharan Africa journeys with the common goal of task sharing in audiology

Task sharing can be designed and implemented specific to the needs of each programme. Foundational principles of global health include developing local leadership as a means to successful sustainable service provision in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) or regions. It...

Preventing avoidable deafness and death from ear disease in Ethiopia

In the July/August edition of the magazine, we featured an article on humanitarian work in Ethiopia, focusing on head and neck surgery. Continuing this theme, Misha Verkerk tells us about an international collaboration providing otology care and training in that...

Cambodian Children Surgical Centre: a junior’s perspective

The Children’s Surgical Centre (CSC) is a Non-Governmental-Organisation (NGO) hospital situated in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. CSC was developed for landmine victims over 20 years ago by Dr Jim Gollogly after the dark period under the Pol Pot...

FESSing up

This story is dedicated to my dear friend and much-missed colleague, Heinz Stammberger, with whom some of these moments were shared (or endured). Having used a rigid endoscope in my postgrad thesis in the early 1980s to show that the...

The MACRO Trial: defining best management of chronic rhinosinusitis

A major UK trial in The Lancet finds ESS provides greater symptom relief than long-term macrolides for adults with CRS, supporting earlier surgery and fewer antibiotics. The MACRO Programme was established in 2016 when the UK National Institute of Health...

Founding of International Association of TransVoice Surgeons

World renowned laryngologists and voice surgeons have joined forces to improve the quality of voice care for the transgender community.

Call to enter WHO Film Festival

Submissions for the fourth edition of the Health for All Film Festival (HAFF) are open until 31 January 2023. Run by the World Health Oganisation (WHO), the HAFF celebrates the art of short films as a means of raising awareness of global health issues.

2023 Digital EUHA Spring Conference

Save the date! The 3rd Digital EUHA Spring Conference will kick off on 31 March 2023.

British Academy of Audiology Position Statement

The British Academy of Audiology (BAA) has released a position statement on the future of NHS Adult Hearing Loss Management. The Board of Directors’ position is that audiology services must be free at the point of access for everyone who...

EUHA 2025: Call for Papers

The 69th International Congress of Hearing Aid Acousticians is scheduled from 22-24 October 2025 in Nuremberg. This is an opportunity for experts to present their research results, findings and innovations to a large audience. Beate Gromke, President of the European...

Key Clinical Topics in Otolaryngology

I am a ST6 registrar and, to review this book, I decided to use it as my primary revision guide for the exam and it did not disappoint. This book has all the hallmarks of a great adjunct for the...