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Underdiagnosing eosinophilic oesophagitis in food bolus obstruction: a wake-up call for ENT units

4 November 2025 | | ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA - Speech and Language Therapy
The management of FBO has evolved, with most cases now done by upper GI clinicians. Biopsies should be taken routinely to investigate possible eosinophilic oesophagitis. In acute soft food bolus obstruction (FBO), uncovering the root cause is as crucial as...

Developing ENT services in Zambia

7 January 2025 | | ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus, ENTA - Head & Neck
Lufunda Lukama and Matthew Clark. Lufunda Lukama is an ENT surgeon in Zambia. In a country of 19.6 million, he is one of five such specialists. It is not difficult to see the problem that he, and the country as...

IFOS Dubai 2023

3 November 2022 |
Hussain Abdul Rahman Al Rand, Msc (Cairo), German Board (Facharzt), FRCS (Edin), President, IFOS World Congress Dubai, 2023; Assistant Under Secretary Public Health, Ministry of Health and Prevention, UAE; Vice President, IFOS; President, ARABFOS, GCC ORL Head and Neck Society,...

Dr Marion Pfaender Down

1 January 2015 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
“Dr Marion P Downs, an innovator in the field of paediatric audiology and a tireless advocate for the early identification of hearing loss, passed away on November 13, 2014. During her exemplary career at the University of Colorado Health Sciences...

Neural plasticity and aural rehabilitation

1 July 2015 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Neurotology
Neural plasticity refers to an ability of the brain and central nervous system to change their structure and function or their reorganisation in response to environmental cues, experience, learning, behaviour, injury and / or diseases and treatments. Neural plasticity is...

Global audiology during COVID-19

26 June 2020 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected, and in some areas, put a complete hold on, audiology practice around the world. In April 2020, during the peak of the pandemic for many regions, our audiology Global Ambassadors provided their reports from their...

The Malawi Hearing Project

2 July 2025 | | ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Paediatrics
Rachael Collins, ENT trainee in the UK, and Mwanaisha Jauza Phiri, audiologist in Malawi, explore the challenges and innovations in delivering ear and hearing care (EHC) across Malawi. The Malawi Hearing Project, a partnership between QECH and Cambridge Global Health...

The otolaryngologist as hospital director: a view from Thailand

1 September 2019 | | ENTA - General
Nadtaya Mills is a female otolaryngologist and director of an entire hospital in Thailand. In this article, she offers a fascinating insight to the work she’s done so far to improve resources and services in a challenging environment. The main...

Early detection pathways for congenital cytomegalovirus for infants referred from the newborn hearing screen

4 March 2024 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
This article discusses requirements for an early congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) detection pathway to ensure children do not miss out on the opportunity for timely diagnosis and treatment. The pathways described are currently in use in England and apply to well...

Giacomo Puccini’s laryngeal cancer

1 September 2015 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Giacomo Puccini, one of the best known composers of all time, was diagnosed with laryngeal cancer and died from the disease in 1924. In this article, Rosario Marchese-Ragona and Alessandro Martini describe Puccini’s experience of the disease with quotes from...

Harnessing head and neck cancer genomics for personalised medicine

1 March 2016 | | ENTA - Head & Neck
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...

Quo vadis FESS? Future directions in functional endoscopic sinus surgery

1 May 2019 | | ENTA - Imaging, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
Endoscopic sinus surgery is now so ubiquitous that it is hard to imagine a time when it was not part of our clinical practice. Valentin Tomazic takes a look at its early development and looks ahead to endoscopic sinus surgery...