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Advances in ear and hearing telehealth

4 May 2021 | | ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Telehealth in ear (or tele-otology/tele-audiology) and hearing care has steadily increased as an area of both research and clinical interest over the past 15 years [1]. Driven by rapid advances in connected technologies and wide-ranging potential use cases, telehealth had...

IOS 66th Meeting

10 October 2025 -11 October 2025 | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus, ENTA - Skull Base Surgery
Our Global Ambassador, Nash Patil, caught up with IOS President Professor Rory McConn Walsh to discuss the forthcoming meeting in Galway: “The President and Council would like to extend a very warm welcome to all of you to Galway for...

A sound change: transitioning hearing healthcare to net-zero

3 November 2023 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Grassroot initiatives are often the most effective. When individuals come together and work with industry, changes are possible in reducing carbon emissions. This article summarises such an initiative working with companies to address Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) and Corporate...

The changing role of audiology

1 January 2015 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Auditory Implants
Audiology has changed dramatically in recent years. Cochlear implants and high power hearing aids have made hearing really available to children with essentially any degree of hearing loss. Those of us who have been in the field for a long...
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Wandering foreign bodies in the upper aerodigestive tract

2 May 2025 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Fish and chicken bones, along with metal wires, are among the most commonly ingested foreign bodies. Due to their linear shape and sharp edges, they can sometimes migrate beyond the lumen, making conventional endoscopic extraction unsuccessful. This issue is further...

By the people, for the people: a multidisciplinary facial nerve clinic with a difference

30 April 2020 | | ENTA - ENT
Facial nerve palsy is regularly seen in ENT clinics. Underlying diagnoses are excluded, and the patient is often then discharged to ‘see how it goes’, with or without an ophthalmology referral. Here, Catherine Meller describes how she and her team...

Promoting human rights of deaf communities in low-resource settings

4 May 2021 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
Stigma and misconceptions about deafness are serious impediments for many deaf people to realise rights and potential in some of the most challenging situations globally. Around 430 million people are estimated to live with moderate or higher levels of hearing...

Promoting human rights of deaf communities in low-resource settings

4 May 2021 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
Stigma and misconceptions about deafness are serious impediments for many deaf people to realise rights and potential in some of the most challenging situations globally. Around 430 million people are estimated to live with moderate or higher levels of hearing...

Case studies – transformational benefits of using connecting hearing aids

1 November 2014 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
While hearing aids can provide great benefits there remain some challenging situations for people with hearing loss. These include listening in background noise, groups, using the telephone and listening to TV / music. Hearing aids with integrated wireless functionality allow...

2020 Lancet Commission on dementia: a call to action for integrated hearing healthcare

3 March 2021 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
Dr Georgiou’s summary of the 2020 update to the 2017 Lancet Commission underscores the importance of medical and hearing healthcare professionals working together to tackle the modifiable risk factors that affect individuals throughout their lives, to help delay or even...

Genetics and the newborn hearing screen: the future is now

1 July 2021 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
Eliot Shearer shares the progress being made with newborn hearing screening 60 years on from where it started, and future directions for identifying hearing loss using physiologic, genetic and cCMV screening. Newborn screening had its birth in the early 1960s,...

Selective upper airway stimulation

1 May 2016 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is one of the most common diseases in industrialised countries and is characterised by an intermittent obstruction of the upper airway during sleep. The standard treatment for OSA is continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy, which...