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Third-party disability in cochlear implantation
The authors of this study note significant third-party disability experienced by significant others (SO) or communication partners of persons with hearing impairment (PHI). The study explored contextual and psychosocial factors for successful auditory rehabilitation, advocating for the importance of including...
When you regret an implant!
Cochlear implants (CIs) offer a solution to hearing loss not helped by conventional hearing aids. CIs help in improving speech recognition scores. While significant, it is not sufficient to provide satisfaction in some implantees. Alignment between expectations and realistic outcomes...New tests enhance evaluation of dizzy patients
Interacoustics is pleased to announce an update to the popular VisualEyes™ VNG system which adds new data-driven tests designed to enhance the diagnostic evaluation and outcome of dizzy patients. VisualEyes 3.2 offers a new standalone package: VORTEQ™ Functional Assessments which...Kingdon Review of Children’s Hearing Services
The Department of Health and Social Care has published the ‘Kingdon Review of Children’s Hearing Services: Final Report’, led by Dr Camilla Kingdon, President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
Lateral wall augmentation for patulous eustachian tube
The problem more commonly attributed to the eustachian tube is lack of its patency rather than it being unduly patulous. This lesser recognised condition is due to loss of peritubal fat volume resulting in concavity of the lateral wall and...A new approach to workplace hearing conservation
The traditional approach to managing workplace noise has failed - how can we better protect our nation’s hearing using smart hearing protection? Occupational noise-induced hearing loss (ONIHL) is the most common occupational health condition in the world and the most...Aligning hearing and cognitive healthcare in older people
Published in print under the titleHearing care and dementia: professional insights on the new Lancet Commission findingsThe Lancet Commission on ‘Dementia prevention, intervention and care: 2024 report’ highlights a list of potential modifiable factors to reduce dementia risk. As with...Dr Huw Cooper, Consultant Clinical Scientist: upcoming Chair of British Society of Audiology
Can you start by telling me something about your own background? After my first degree in Psychology at Reading and a year doing other things, I went to Southampton to do the MSc in 1982. My first job after that...In conversation with Catherine Rennie
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...
