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From the editor May/Jun 2024

3 May 2024 |
Declan Costello, MA, MBBS, FRCS(ORL-HNS),Consultant Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeon, Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, Berkshire, UK. E: d.costello@nhs.netTW / X: @Voicedoctor_uk One of the privileges of editing this magazine is interviewing senior figures within our specialty; so, it was wonderful...

From patient to performer

4 September 2023 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Peter Cawrey lives in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, with his wife Dorothy. He had a salvage laryngectomy for squamous cell carcinoma in 2015, three years following his initial radiotherapy. Due to complications and a complex recovery, he has elected not to have...

Can laryngeal sensitivity testing predict aspiration and pneumonia in dysphagic patients?

1 July 2018 | | Aspiration, Deglutition, Dysphagia, Laryngeal adductor reflex, Laryngeal sensory deficits, Pneumonia
The laryngeal adductor reflex (LAR) is characterised by brief vocal cord closure in response to laryngeal stimulation. It is important in swallowing physiology as it represents a mechanism for airway protection. The authors of this study examined whether the absence...

Landmark clinical trial into treatment for severe hearing loss launches

3 January 2022
Researchers at the NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre and the University of Nottingham are launching a new study, sponsored by the University of Nottingham, which will inform the most effective treatment for people with severe hearing loss globally (those with...

Music and hearing aids - the current state of affairs

25 August 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
‘Speech sounds great, but music isn’t right’ is a common complaint from hearing aid users across the globe. In this article, Marshall Chasin, one of the most published audiologists on the subject of music and hearing, outlines why patients with...

Sir Terence Edward Cawthorne (1902-1970): first Chairman of the BACO Academic Committee

1 July 2015 | | ENTA - Otology
Sir Terence Cawthorne was the chairman of the academic committee of the first BACO in 1963, and was Master of the second BACO in 1967. In this article, Neil Weir describes the life and career of one of the UK’s...

Protheses for patients with severe bilateral vestibular loss

4 March 2025 | | ENTA - Vestibular Disorders, ENTA - Neurotology
In February 2003, I met a patient with severe bilateral vestibular loss due to gentamicin toxicity, and I felt disheartened. Despite the fantastic diagnostic vestibular lab we had at Maastricht University Hospital, what could I truly offer her? She had...

Developmental stuttering: a speech-motor impairment with sensory aspects

6 November 2024 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
In treating patients who stutter, understanding the effects of sensory input (i.e. auditory input) can help to direct therapeutic approaches. Sensory processing has been identified as a contributory factor in several diagnoses, notably autism and ADHD [1], however it has...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ear health in the 2020s

30 April 2020 | | ENTA - Otology
The world is in the midst of a pandemic, and global health is severely threatened by this novel coronavirus which has caused over three million infections of COVID-19 and claimed more than 228,000 lives to date*. Societies and health systems...

The future of head and neck cancer surgery

1 March 2019 | | ENTA - Head & Neck
Neil Sharma paints an exciting picture of the future of head and neck surgery with nanobots and robot augmented humans – science fiction or reality? Time will tell. ‘May you live in interesting times’ reads the old Chinese curse. The...

Observations and ruminations - a week of collaboration and learning in Ghana

2 May 2025 | | ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
A week of surgical exchange in Ghana reveals the power of collaboration, resilience and mutual learning in advancing global ENT care. Isabelle JM Williams. Isabelle’s perspective It was a Saturday lunchtime at Heathrow airport, terminal 3. Professor David Howard, Miss...

New edition of Virtual Hearing Aid Care published

5 December 2022
Scholaship@Western has published v2.0 of a clinical practice guideline (CPG) on Virtual Hearing Aid Care.