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The changing landscape for hearing loss therapeutics: novel advances of gene and cell therapies

3 September 2024 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Recent years have seen advances in hearing loss therapeutics, with novel treatments trialled in humans, and others nearing promising first-in-kind clinical trials. First successful clinical trials for a specific form of genetic hearing loss Very exciting news has emerged in...

Silent crisis: the exodus of hearing healthcare professionals from the Philippines

6 November 2024 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
The migration of Filipino audiologists and otolaryngologists abroad is worsening the shortage of hearing specialists. Improving local conditions is vital to retaining talent. As ear and hearing healthcare professionals practising in the Philippines, we have seen the struggle in keeping...

Charitable hearing care in Pakistan: establishing the IMRA Cochlear Implant Programme and Middle Ear Project

14 February 2020 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology
IMRA, the International Medical Relief Agency, is a registered charity providing volunteer-delivered cochlear implant and major ear surgery to children and adults in Pakistan. Established in 2001 by UK-based ENT surgeons led by Mr Haroon Khan, its primary aim is...

In conversation with Professor Graeme Clark

1 September 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Paediatrics
As we celebrate the cochlear implant, we celebrate an amazing work of innovative biomedical engineering that is a life-changer to many recipients around the world. We take for granted the arduous journey of the cochlear implant since its conception. Eric...

In conversation with Catherine Rennie

10 August 2021 | | ENTA - ENT
Miss Catherine Rennie has recently been recognised as one of the Women’s Engineering Society’s (WES) Top 50 Women in Engineering 2021. According to WES, these awards celebrate the “best, brightest and bravest women in engineering, who recognise a problem, then...

In conversation with Prof Helge Rask-Andersen: on cell regeneration and treatment of human deafness

2 September 2022 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology
Helge Rask-Andersen, head of the inner ear research laboratory at the University of Uppsala in Sweden, has many achievements to his name. He was made an Honorary Member of ENT UK earlier this year. Gerry O’Donoghue caught up with him...

Sniffing out the evidence – COVID-19 and loss of sense of smell and taste

1 July 2021 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
Louis Pasteur once observed: “In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.” Professor Hopkins was certainly prepared when a few anecdotes of smell problems started to accumulate early in the pandemic’s course. Post-viral olfactory loss is nothing...

In conversation with Prof Helge Rask-Andersen: on cell regeneration and treatment of human deafness

2 September 2022 | | ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Otology
Helge Rask-Andersen, head of the inner ear research laboratory at the University of Uppsala in Sweden, has many achievements to his name. He was made an Honorary Member of ENT UK earlier this year. Gerry O’Donoghue caught up with him...

Looking forward: incoming RSM presidents preview the year ahead

6 October 2025
This November, Professor Simon Lloyd takes over from Patrick Axon as Otology Section President of the Royal Society of Medicine, and Professor Vin Paleri takes over from Michelle Wyatt as President of the Laryngology and Rhinology Section. Both incoming presidents share highlights from their programmes for the forthcoming year.

Music and cochlear implants

5 June 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Paediatrics
Introduction The introduction of multichannel cochlear implants (CIs) in the early 1980s provided children and adults with severe and profound hearing losses with greatly improved speech perception skills. In this paper, however, I am going to focus on an area...

Secrets of the listening brain: what measuring the brain can tell us about hearing aid use and more

26 June 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Neurotology
In a typical audiology clinic, on any given day, a person is waiting to see an audiologist to get a hearing aid (HA). It might have taken over 10 years to get to this point of considering a hearing aid(s)...

Communicating with patients in 
‘Plain English’

1 January 2014 | | ENTA - ENT
Physicians have long been accused of using unnecessarily complicated language and impenetrable jargon as a way of maintaining their status, prestige and high earnings-potential, bamboozling the public and excluding them from meaningful discussion as part of what George Bernard Shaw...