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Invest in parents: motivation is key

4 March 2025 | | ENTA - Speech and Language Therapy
Home practice is a key component in promoting generalisation of what is learned in speech and language therapy sessions to the real world. Yet time constraints, stress, ambivalence toward practice and increased care demands when a child has a disability...

Total glossectomy and laryngectomy

2 May 2025 | | ENTA - Head & Neck
This review paper analysed studies published between January 2000 and January 2024, assessing the functional outcomes of total glossectomy combined with laryngectomy. The primary outcomes included speech ability, swallowing function and gastrostomy tube dependence. Secondary outcomes considered were disease recurrence...

Discover the future of reflux diagnostics in BIOHIT HealthCare’s webinar

15 April 2025 | Company Profiles, Research & Development
Join BIOHIT HealthCare on the 14th of May 2025 for a live free webinar discussing Peptest®, our innovative non-invasive diagnostic tool for reflux. The session will be delivered by Dr Andrew Woodcock, Chief Scientific Officer at RD Biomed, who will...

Unlocking better reflux diagnostics with Peptest®

20 May 2025 | Research & Development
BIOHIT HealthCare recently hosted a fascinating webinar on Peptest, its innovative, non-invasive saliva-based test that is redefining reflux diagnosis. Led by Andrew Woodcock, Chief Scientific Officer at RD Biomed, the comprehensive session explored the science behind Peptest, from its early...
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Hearing: An Introduction to Psychological and Physiological Acoustics - Seventh Edition

4 November 2025 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Speech and Language Therapy
This text offers a good resource to learn or refresh knowledge relating to psychological and physiological acoustics. While a highly informative source for those learning about audiology such as students and new audiological professionals, as the preface suggests it could...
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Drooling: what is it like to be unable to manage your own saliva?

4 November 2025 | | ENTA - Speech and Language Therapy
Drooling in Parkinson’s is associated with less frequent and inefficient swallowing, resulting in a build-up of saliva in the mouth that then moves beyond the lips. It often causes discomfort as the skin becomes sore, and results in embarrassment. The...
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Does frailty lead to changes on quantitative measures of videofluoroscopic swallowing assessment?

4 November 2025 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
In recent years, studies have considered the relationship between frailty and swallowing and demonstrated that decreased skeletal muscle mass correlates with decreased swallowing function. This study investigated this relationship by using quantitative measurement of three individual components of swallowing assessed...

Share your perspective on improving reflux care pathways

7 November 2025 | Company Profiles, Research & Development
BIOHIT HealthCare recently brought together leading ENT specialists and speech and language therapy professionals for a roundtable discussion on the complexities of diagnosing laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) and extraoesophageal reflux. Key themes included the lack of consensus around LPR as a...

Diagnosis, wearables and remote monitoring in 15 and 50 years

1 March 2019 | | ENTA - General
In 2069 will we look forward to being enslaved by robots, becoming zombies or having our health (and ill health) diagnosed by nanotech? Ajith George muses over what the future holds for us all. The future of healthcare, not just...

Surgeons and swearing

1 July 2017 | | ENTA - Head & Neck
We will all know colleagues who have raised the act of swearing to an art form; just as Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It could cut a workmate in half with a well-placed swear word, surgeons can be equally...

Hearing healthcare in India

1 March 2016 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
With a population of more than a billion people, and an estimated prevalence of hearing loss of somewhere between 5.9% and 16.5%, depending on which definition you use, India has a significant number of hearing impaired individuals. They are served...

Evidence based practice in paediatric audiology

1 January 2015 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
Audiology, like most of the health sciences professions, has been working on integrating evidence-based practice principles since the mid-1990s [1]. Professional organisations and regulatory colleges have produced evidence-based clinical practice guidelines, disseminated them to audiologists and collaborated with practitioners to...