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Liver function assessment in glandular fever

This month’s Editors’ Choice is a systematic review of the role of liver assessment in patients with glandular fever. Admission of patients with sore throat constitutes a significant burden of acute work for paediatric and adult ENT services as well...

Early injection laryngoplasty for iatrogenic vocal fold movement impairment – a safe and effective treatment

This Ed’s Choice examines the role of early injection laryngoplasty on swallowing dysfunction and is one of a few studies available in the literature. Research on early injection laryngoplasty has been predominately focused on voice and reducing the risk of...

William Demant Foundation Donates DKK 8 Million ($1.2 Million USD) for Humanitarian Aid Inside and Outside Ukraine

The William Demant Foundation has announced plans to donate DKK 8 million ($1.2 million USD) to support humanitarian aid in and outside Ukraine to meet the growing needs of children and families, including those on the move.

Portable otoscopy image capture devices – a comparative review

The use of photo documentation in ENT clinics is becoming more common as technological advances have made the hardware required more accessible. There is significant variation in the price of products. Daniel Moualed, Olivia Whiteside and Chris Aldren review the...

Ida Institute closing down

In a significant shift for the field of hearing care, Demant has announced the closure of the Ida Institute. On 8 October, the Denmark-based hearing healthcare giant has confirmed that future developments in person-centred care will be led directly by...

Pre-clinical development of magnetic delivery of therapy to middle and inner ears

Why are we developing this technology? A key problem in drug delivery is getting the therapy to the right place in the body, which is especially challenging for targets that are small, deep and are protected or surrounded by anatomical...

2022 Hearing Technology Innovator Awards

Hearing Health & Technology Matters (HHTM), an online resource for hearing professionals and consumers with hearing loss, has announced a call for submissions for the third annual Hearing Technology Innovator Awards™. Through the annual awards programme, HHTM honours technological innovation...

Interacoustics introduces the game-changing Audible Contrast Threshold (ACT™) test

For more than a century, hearing aids have been prescribed based solely on the pure tone audiogram.With the introduction of ACT, Interacoustics goes beyond the audiogram, and is now able to address the number one complaint from people with hearing loss: hearing conversations in noisy situations.

AMSAH ENT 2023 - 1st World Congress

‘Chat GPT’ is a phrase I have heard repeatedly from breathless journalists, gobsmacked podcast hosts, astonished co-workers and all over my Facebook feed since the start of this year, so when I received notification of the First World Congress on...

Recurrent ENT infections in children – is it a sign of primary immunodeficiency disease?

ENT clinicians often come across children with recurrent ear, sinus and pulmonary infections. These recurrent infections, albeit common in childhood, can represent an early sign of primary immunodeficiency diseases (PIDD). PIDD is an underdiagnosed group of genetic disorders involving absent...

Button batteries – how can we reduce harm to children?

This article explores the history of button batteries and how clinicians and industries alike could reduce the harm to children following ingestion. Following ingestion, if lodged, button batteries cause an alkaline reaction leading to necrosis of mucosa. Significant oesophageal injury...

Harnessing head and neck cancer genomics for personalised medicine

Luc Morris updates us on the future of cancer diagnosis and treatment, which lies in “personalised oncology”, where specific molecular alterations of each tumour will be identified, and matched with actionable alterations in existing therapies, ushering in the era of...