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Meet Robyn our News & Events Co-ordinator

13 May 2019 | Personnel
ROBYN COOPER, News & Events Co-ordinator. Robyn joined Pinpoint Scotland a few months ago and would be delighted to hear from you. If you have a course or conference...

Consultation on cochlear implantation guidelines

4 April 2023
A taskforce of 52 hearing experts has released Living Guidelines for hearing care.

From surgeon to scholar: the remarkable life of Philip Stell

2 May 2025 | | ENTA - Head & Neck
Professor Philip Stell was an extraordinary man: following an astonishingly illustrious career in ENT, he excelled as a medieval historian. With the Philip Stell Prize due to be awarded in May, his friend Pat Bradley looks back at his remarkable...

How should we detect and identify deficit-specific auditory processing disorders?

31 October 2018 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
The human central auditory nervous system (CANS) is complex and highly dependent upon attention and cognitive brain regions. Profs David Moore and Harvey Dillon discuss novel assessment approaches to clarify auditory contributions to listening difficulties in children. How can we...

In conversation with Professor Janet Wilson

1 July 2021 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
As she approaches her retirement from clinical practice, Professor Janet Wilson speaks to our Editor (and fellow laryngologist) Declan Costello about surgical training, research, diversity, literature and the future. You have had an immensely successful career in ENT – how...

Review: Cochlear Implantation in SSD?

1 March 2015 | | Binaural hearing, Cochlear implantation, Contra-lateral routing of signals, Hearing aid, Single-sided deafness, Spatial listening, Unilateral hearing loss
Contra lateral routing of signals (CROS) using hearing aids and bone conduction devices has been the conventionally accepted modality for the treatment of single sided hearing impairment. The CROS hearing aid has been found to improve speech understanding in noise,...

Listening differences in autistic individuals

3 May 2022 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
In this article Erin Schafer, Lauren Mathews and Andrea Dunn outline the common auditory issues that autistic individuals face in comparison with their neurotypical peers and highlight the need to move beyond the traditional audiologic test battery when working with...

COVID masks & hearing loss: communication tips & advice

22 September 2020
As COVID continues and face masks are deemed mandatory in many places, hearing loss experts Clear Living have launched two new visual graphics with an accompanying article featuring tips and advice to help aid communication with those affected by hearing...

New edition of Virtual Hearing Aid Care published

5 December 2022
Scholaship@Western has published v2.0 of a clinical practice guideline (CPG) on Virtual Hearing Aid Care.

Physician illness

1 September 2018 | | ENTA - ENT
Getting in the zone, recognising our personal stress limits and looking after ourselves are vital components in our efforts to stay healthy advises Abbie Lane, after almost a generation of de-stressing others. They say a rugby player like Brian O’Driscoll...

EVOTION: Big data supporting public health policies for hearing loss

1 March 2018 | | ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Otology
Big Data? Biosensors, smart hearing aids and smartphones? The EVOTION Project has it all and more! What will this project tell us about the future of hearing management? Doris-Eva Bamiou, Giorgos Dritsakis and Louisa Murdin, members of the EVOTION team,...

Global health missions – not just for consultants. A guide for trainees.

31 October 2018 | | ENTA - ENT
Lulu Ritchie is a courageous and driven trainee in London, inspired by humanitarian missions but conscious of the usual requests for consultant level doctors. Lulu didn’t let that hold her back. She found a way and has kindly summarised her...