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Pursuing part-time postgraduate qualifications
Thinking of going back to university to do further study? We hear from one audiologist who identified an area of further study and specialisation and took the leap. My career in audiology began in 2003 through a traditional route in...Navigation in skull base surgery
Advances in navigation and augmented reality are transforming skull base surgery, offering greater precision and safety alongside emerging robotic tools. Surgical robots have been used in various forms across several surgical specialties for over 20 years [1,2]. However, it is...Building sound: from Stonehenge to a Symphony Hall
Modern architecture can use scientific techniques to shape room acoustics and create great sounding places. Professor Trevor Cox discusses our ancestors’ understanding of the importance of building techniques to enhance acoustics from Stonehenge to a Symphony Hall. Going to an...Whale hearing tests through evoked potential audiometry
Covering over 70% of the earth’s surface and reaching known depths of 11km, the world’s oceans tick the box for an extreme environment. What do we know of the impact of environmental noise on the deep-sea dwellers of this habitat?...Cacophony: the art of communicating deafness by Anita Ford
Here, we discover the profound exploration of deafness through art by Anita Ford. Her Cacophony series delves into the challenges of communication and isolation. Anita Ford was a prolific printmaker and painter. She studied at Loughborough College of Art, obtaining...In conversation with Dr Narveshwar Sinha
‘Only if you hear, you speak’ – early diagnosis of deafness On the occasion of World Hearing Day, Vikas Malik interviewed Narveshwar Sinha, Chairman of IDEAL Charity, a UK-based charity working for the hearing impaired in less developed countries for...Time to professionalise medical leadership
For a profession proud of its adherence to an evidence base, medicine has been remarkably slow to acknowledge and to act on the evidence which underpins the value of good leadership to patients and the healthcare system. Mr Robert Francis...The role of artificial intelligence and applications in ENT surgery
AI is progressing apace. If you’re wondering how it might affect our working lives in ENT, read on for insights and a pilot study that show us what may be possible. The recent launch of ChatGPT, an open access artificial...
Consulting with patients and providers: what should the future of aphasia therapy look like?
This article provides a description of what healthcare for people living with aphasia should and may look like in 10 years’ time. The authors have consulted with a group of people with aphasia and the lead of an aphasia advocacy...
Gamma Knife surgery for persistent or recurrent trigeminal neuralgia
Treatment of trigeminal neuralgia continues to be challenging. The treatment options include pharmacotherapy, or failing this, surgical options like microvascular decompression (MVD), radiofrequency ablation, pencil beam convolution and Gamma Knife surgery. The authors of this article have presented a series...
Transoral surgery for submandibular stones
The authors assessed the factors that influence the outcome of transoral excision of submandibular duct stones. This was a retrospective case-note review and prospective telephone survey of 125 patients, who had surgery over an eight-year period by a single surgeon....
