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Otodynamics' OTOPORTcompletes a mission on the International Space Station

30 October 2021 | Research & Development
For the last few years, the International Space Station has been home to an Otodynamics’ Otoport Advance handheld clinical OAE instrument.

Old age is hard to swallow

4 May 2023 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
This article takes us through the diagnosis and management of swallowing problems common in older age. As our global population continues to grow and live longer, dysphagia will continue to be a global problem which needs to be recognised, understood...

Cochlear implantation in Tanzania: the journey and the outcomes

1 July 2021 | | ENTA - Audiology - Auditory Implants, ENTA - Otology
It is estimated that over 400 million people worldwide live with disabling hearing loss, 39.9 million of whom live in sub-Saharan Africa [1]. This article by Dr Aveline Kahinga and Mr Ali Jaffer demonstrates the effort that has been made...

Annelies Kusters: exploring deaf communities globally

3 May 2024 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Pioneering deaf scholar, Annelies Kusters, shares insights from her global research journey spanning two decades in deaf communities worldwide. You’ve travelled the world extensively through your work – what’s surprised you most about the different communities that you’ve studied? My...

Annelies Kusters: exploring deaf communities globally

3 May 2024 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Pioneering deaf scholar, Annelies Kusters, shares insights from her global research journey spanning two decades in deaf communities worldwide. You’ve travelled the world extensively through your work – what’s surprised you most about the different communities that you’ve studied? My...

EVOTION: Big data supporting public health policies for hearing loss

1 March 2018 | | ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Otology
Big Data? Biosensors, smart hearing aids and smartphones? The EVOTION Project has it all and more! What will this project tell us about the future of hearing management? Doris-Eva Bamiou, Giorgos Dritsakis and Louisa Murdin, members of the EVOTION team,...

Hearing matters in New Year's Honours

7 January 2026
Emeritus Professor David Kemp from the UCL Ear Institute, widely known for his discovery of otoacoustic emissions, has been made a CBE for services to auditory sciences and public health. Robert Nolan, chair of Deafblind UK, was awarded OBE for services to people living with deafblindness.

Maxillofacial and neck surgery in Iraq and Afghanistan

1 July 2014 | | ENTA - Maxillofacial Surgery, ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders
Introduction Over the past 150 years, military personnel wounded in action had a survival rate of approximately 80% [1]. During the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, those servicemen wounded in action have a 90.4% survival rate [2]. During the...

Diabetes and hearing loss: a review

1 July 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
As hearing health professionals we often ask, especially in older patients, if they have diabetes; but what is the link? How is it manifested and should it change current practice? Alec Lapira reviews the changing evidence. Early attempts to establish...

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...

Clinical leadership and management: developing world ENT

1 September 2014 | | ENTA - ENT
I have been asked to share some of the initiatives I have been involved with to address ENT-related challenges in Africa and the developing world. Developing countries constitute the majority of the world’s landmass (Figure 1), are home to >50%...

In conversation with Dr Eugene Myers: Education, training, and leadership in the modern era

3 September 2021 | | ENTA - ENT
It is an honour to hear from Dr Eugene Myers, who shares his experience with us, and his opinions and advice on the current circumstances for training and trainees. His energy, vitality and work ethic in his late 80s are...