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Wearable tech revolutionising sleep monitoring: a new era in sleep health

6 November 2024 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Restful sleep is crucial for health but conditions like obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) can significantly disrupt it, leading to fatigue, cardiovascular issues, and other serious health problems. Polysomnography (PSG) remains the gold standard for OSA diagnosis [1], however it is...

Making the case for multidisciplinary ENT vasculitis clinics

7 May 2026 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
How can combined ENT vasculitis clinics improve diagnosis, treatment and ongoing care for patients with AAV? This article outlines a multidisciplinary approach. Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitides (AAV) are a group of rare autoimmune conditions characterised by inflammation of small-...

Cholesteatoma and Ear Surgery

1 August 2020 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology
The book Cholesteatoma and Ear Surgery is a selection of papers and presentations, including round tables and symposia, that constitute the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Cholesteatoma and Ear surgery, a highly successful meeting that attracted over 1000...
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Better or barrier: what do healthcare professionals think about teletherapy?

6 September 2021 | | ENTA - Speech and Language Therapy | children, language assessment, telehealth
Most healthcare professionals will have had to dabble in using some kind of telehealth platform over the last 18 months or so. And most of us will have had some reservations, or have colleagues who just weren’t sure about Zoom,...

In-office management of subglottic and tracheal stenosis: balloon dilation, laser treatment and steroid injection

4 September 2025 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Laryngology continues to advance since its development as a subspecialty at the turn of the century. Rarely performed operations restricted to the surgical theatre can now be undertaken in the outpatient / office environment. This detailed article demonstrates, in a...

2020 Unmasked - By Behrad Barmayehvar

2 April 2021 |
The face mask has become part of our lives; an essential item besides your mobile phone that you cannot leave the house without. The mask has also turned into a symbol for the communal resilience that we have all shown...

Screening for hearing aid fittings – an approach for primary care

14 June 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
Introduction The communication difficulties related to hearing loss can lead to ‘depression, social withdrawal and problems with employment and access to information sources’ [1]. Furthermore, unmanaged hearing loss is associated with dementia, a poorer quality of life, depression, anxiety and...

Targeted CMV screening and hearing management of children with congenital cytomegalovirus infection

31 October 2018 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
Congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) infection is a common congenital infection and is the leading infectious cause of sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) in children. Prof Karen Fowler discusses current research and the exciting future of screening for cCMV in newborns. Figure 1....

NHS collaboration and partnership with the pharmaceutical and medical devices industries

1 March 2015 | | ENTA - General
Historically the relationship between industry and the NHS has been a cautious one. Both sides have typically worked with only partially disclosed agendas, under a pervading fear of finding themselves on the wrong end of a win-lose negotiation. Things have...

Cochlear implant referral: how can we do better?

1 June 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Auditory Implants, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Paediatrics
Considerable progress has been made over the last few years in improving access to cochlear implantation (CI) in the UK for children and adults with severe to profound deafness. But we are still not treating children early enough, and we...

Green hearing services: sustainable care for people and the planet

3 September 2026 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
Environmental resource depletion is no longer a distant threat; it is a current health emergency. Sustainable hearing services are kind to both people and the planet. In January 2026, the International Society of Audiology hosted a webinar bringing together those...

Audiology in this issue...Psychology (May/Jun19)

1 May 2019 |
Alex Griffiths-Brown, BSc(Hons), MRes, Audiologist, The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust, Shrewsbury, UK. E: alex.griffiths-brown@nhs.net@griffithsbrown1 Whether using ‘client centred counselling’ [1] when seeing adult hearing aid patients, employing motivational interviewing [2] during tinnitus consultations or considering the stages of...