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Olfaction in CRS
Conventional teaching tells us that hyposmia in chronic rhinosinusitis is due to mechanical obstruction of the olfactory cleft. But it might be that the story is slightly more complicated than that. Olfactory dysfunction is a common feature of chronic rhinosinusitis...In conversation with Catherine Rennie
Miss Catherine Rennie has recently been recognised as one of the Women’s Engineering Society’s (WES) Top 50 Women in Engineering 2021. According to WES, these awards celebrate the “best, brightest and bravest women in engineering, who recognise a problem, then...Sniffing out the evidence – COVID-19 and loss of sense of smell and taste
Louis Pasteur once observed: “In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.” Professor Hopkins was certainly prepared when a few anecdotes of smell problems started to accumulate early in the pandemic’s course. Post-viral olfactory loss is nothing...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...Communicating with patients in ‘Plain English’
Physicians have long been accused of using unnecessarily complicated language and impenetrable jargon as a way of maintaining their status, prestige and high earnings-potential, bamboozling the public and excluding them from meaningful discussion as part of what George Bernard Shaw...ECHNO 2025
Jonathan Fussey, Consultant ENT Head & Neck Surgeon, University Hospitals BirminghamThis year marked the 11th European Congress on Head and Neck Oncology, held in the impressive Beurs Van Berlage in the centre of Amsterdam. Delegates from around the world convened...Smell Above All: Where Technology Meets the Nose
This event, part of the EPSRC/NIHR-funded Smell Care Project, gathered over 100 international attendees. It highlighted the often-overlooked importance of smell in daily life, supporting individuals with smell loss through digital training and showcasing technology that enhances smell-related quality of life.
Back to the Future
Normally my objective for this column is to highlight an innovation that is already fully realised and on the market. Sometimes it can be fun instead to look forward to what innovations are coming down the pipeline. With that in...
