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A shifting landscape of otitis media

7 January 2026 | | ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Paediatrics
In light of pneumococcal vaccination programmes, is otitis media evolving to have a different natural history? Acute otitis media (AOM) is a major public health problem in children worldwide, as it is the leading bacterial infection and first cause of...

Ultrasonic bone aspirators for internal auditory meatus ‘drilling’ in retrosigmoid vestibular schwannoma resection

2 May 2025 | | ENTA - Neurotology, ENTA - Skull Base Surgery
In this article, the authors describe the retrosigmoid approach to a vestibular schwannoma, using an ultrasonic bone aspirator as an alternative to the standard drill. Vestibular schwannomas (VS) are benign, usually slow-growing tumours of the vestibular nerve. Management of VS...

Ida Institute’s legacy and the future of person-centred care

4 March 2025 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Professor Kris English reflects on the IDA Institute’s closure, celebrating its legacy of advancing patient-centred care and reshaping audiological counselling worldwide. In September 2008, the Ida Institute’s Director, Lise Lotte Bundesen, and her team held its inaugural ‘Defining Hearing Seminar’...

Journal Clubs – The Happy Hour!

2 July 2025 | | ENTA - General
Kim W Ah-See is stepping back from his role at the magazine, having first joined as a journal reviewer in 1997. We revisit his first article as How I Do It section editor from 2007. It is with immense pleasure...

The Apple effect: could Apple’s involvement redefine the future of hearing aid technology?

4 November 2025 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Auditory Implants
As Apple enters hearing health, this article explores how its tech may reduce stigma and reshape hearing care, without replacing clinical expertise. As hearing health professionals, we are all acutely aware of the gap between prevalence of hearing loss and...

The ups and downs of overseas research – the inner ear at altitude

7 January 2025 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders, ENTA - Otology
Conducting research at extreme altitude presents unique challenges. This study of the inner ear at 5350m navigates setbacks in a quest for scientific discovery. Having completed a diploma in mountain medicine in my foundation years, I decided to undertake a...

Wideband tympanometry: translating complexity into clinical clarity

3 September 2026 | | ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Otology
Clinicians often encounter patients with a Type A tympanogram who still present with conductive hearing loss. Traditional 226 Hz tympanometry has served as a reliable tool in audiology and otolaryngology practices since the 1970s, yet it often misses subtle variations...

Making the most of your surgical rotations as a medical student in theatres

7 January 2026 | | EYE - General
This article provides practical tips for medical students to navigate theatre etiquette, engage with teams and gain valuable surgical experience. I am the kind of person who needs a set of alarms ringing every two minutes just to get out...

Persistent dizziness, PPPD and time-domain dissociation

4 November 2026 | | ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Neurotology, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders
PPPD is a vital diagnostic framework for chronic dizziness. But a normal vHIT does not always mean that the vestibular system has finished telling its story. The patient who is still dizzy A patient returns after an episode of vertigo....

Children and adults’ Top 10 research priorities in childhood deafness and hearing loss

4 November 2026 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
A UK-wide priority-setting project gave deaf children, families and professionals a voice in shaping the research needed to improve education, communication and wellbeing. Research priority setting for childhood deafness and hearing loss Research priority setting involves identifying the research questions...

Presents, patients and perspicacity

4 November 2026 | | ENTA - General
Strictly speaking, one is no longer allowed to accept presents from grateful patients as it could be interpreted as coercive and detrimental to the doctor-patient relationship. I can see that if the personal gift were substantial or financial, or if...

Time to professionalise medical leadership

1 September 2014 | | ENTA - ENT
For a profession proud of its adherence to an evidence base, medicine has been remarkably slow to acknowledge and to act on the evidence which underpins the value of good leadership to patients and the healthcare system. Mr Robert Francis...