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Braci PRO – Alerts for the Hearing Impaired

The honk of a car. An ambulance siren. A fire alarm. The ring of a doorbell. These alerting sounds are used to communicate information of varying levels of importance to us in our homes on a daily basis. Unfortunately this...

PuroPro headphones review

The PuroPro is the latest product from Puro Sound Labs, a family-run business focusing on high quality, sound limiting headphones. For this family business, it’s personal. The company founder’s son has a noise-induced hearing loss attributed to headphone use. With...

Vicarious (nasal) menstruation

Hippocrates himself is known to have said that when a woman’s menses are due, but instead of the usual vaginal menstrual flow, she has a haemorrhage from the nose, then this is a sure sign of pregnancy [1]. Artist’s impression...

ENT Surgical Hackathon

Rana Tahoun, CST2, Northwest Deanery, UK An ENT hackathon? Not two things you expect to read in the same sentence! It was actually the first time it ever happened, and it was open to all ENT surgeons and aspiring surgeons....

The 5th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Immunology Allergology and Infection in Otorhinolaryngology

Shigeharu FujiedaThe 5th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Immunology Allergology and Infection in Otorhinolaryngology (JIAIO) was held successfully with 427 attendees and 215 presentations, in Akita City, Japan.This society comprises approximately 1,000 members, primarily practicing otolaryngologists from across...

ENT specialist honoured in Uzbekistan

Italian ENT specialist Professor Desiderio Passàli was awarded an honorary professorship in April by the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Uzbekistan. The honour was conferred at an event on 18 April in Samarkand State Medical University by the...

AURITEC presents AT2000: Advanced Multichannel Audiometry and Cochlear Implant Integration

AURITEC AT2000 is a state-of-the-art audiometer that stands out for its exceptional capabilities in multichannel audiometry and its unique integration with cochlear implants.

The future role of technology in rhinology

Technology is moving our speciality forward very rapidly in all domains, but none more so than in rhinology. David Whitehead looks at current and future trends. How will a surgeon justify their position in a team where artificial intelligence (AI)...

Changing the face of global health: short-term surgical trips

With the growth of global health awareness, global surgery has emerged as a key focus area. This article examines short-term surgical trips (STSTs) as one of the ways used to address some of the gaps in global surgery. It demonstrates...

Young Otolaryngologists of IFOS (YO-IFOS) new project: submit your video now

One of the aims of the YO-IFOS Education Committee is to promote high-quality educational videos. We have the opportunity to publish a special issue of the European Annals of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Diseases, the official journal of YO-IFOS/IFOS and we would like to invite you to participate.

CT chest surveillance for oral cancer patients

Computed tomography (CT) imaging of the chest is performed as part of the assessment of patients with oral cancer to exclude pulmonary metastasis or synchronous cancer. This process is integral to staging of the disease. In some cases, non-specific pulmonary...

Muscle tension dysphagia: an underdiagnosed problem

In this article, the authors introduce the description of swallowing problems which have been recently attributed to muscle tension dysphagia (MTDg). The authors are clear that this is a diagnosis of exclusion, and it is important to rule out other...