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Augmented reality – a quick overview of potential technology

Is that the optic nerve? Where is the carotid? Both questions you would prefer to know the answer to upfront. This article discusses if augmented reality can help us with surgical navigation around the skull base. Although endoscopic skull base...

African Head and Neck Society/IFOS Symposium, Ultrasound and Dissection Courses

The African Head and Neck Society (AfHNS) held a one-day Symposium at the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, followed by a Head and Neck Ultrasound course and a Head and Neck Cadaver Dissection course. The Symposium and Head and Neck Dissection Course were supported by the International Federation of Otorhinolaryngological Societies (IFOS).

Farewell to Prof Kim Ah-See

Kim Ah-See has been a stalwart member of the ENT & Audiology News team for many years. Since joining as a journal reviewer in 1997 and then taking on the role of How I Do It section editor a decade...

Farewell to Prof Kim Ah-See

Kim Ah-See has been a stalwart member of the ENT & Audiology News team for many years. Since joining as a journal reviewer in 1997 and then taking on the role of How I Do It section editor a decade...

Role of the insula and orbitofrontal cortex in tinnitus related distress

It is estimated that 5% of the population suffer from chronic tinnitus with 17% of those suffering emotional distress. The authors attempted to study the neural correlates of tinnitus-related distress using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during an Emotional Stroop...

AOT President, Manish George, highlights the many issues COVID-19 has created for trainees

It is clear that COVID-19 has created multiple wide-reaching issues for trainees as a whole. Whilst an earlier preoccupation of mine has been to...

JLO Travelling Study Bursaries

The Journal of Laryngology and Otology is offering three generous travel bursaries in 2025, each to the value of up to £3000.

Drug side-effects on audiological and vestibular testing

Are they a malingerer? Or perhaps they are inattentive? It may be their drugs! Robert DiSogra considers the side-effects of medication on the test subject. The audiogram serves many purposes in clinical practice. For the audiologist, it helps to differentiate...

Biologic therapies for chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps: a new paradigm

Surgery for nasal polyposis has evolved significantly in the last 30 years, and now the medical management may be on the cusp of a revolution. Biologics using monoclonal antibodies to target specific immune pathways have introduced a paradigm shift in...

INTEGRATE: Uniting collaborative research in ENT

Exposure to clinical research as a trainee is often sporadic and unstructured, despite it featuring in both the GMC’s Good Medical Practice and the ISCP’s syllabus for all surgical specialities, including otolaryngology [1,2]. The majority of trainees undertake small-scale research...

Mindfulness meditation: how personal experience of managing severe pain contributes to understanding tinnitus management

In this interesting article the author describes the potential benefit of mindfulness in the management of tinnitus, using a case report to illustrate this.This may well be an additional direction we can suggest for our patients. Mindfulness is a word...

Social representation of hearing loss in different countries

The social representation of different phenomena has generated strong interest among researchers recently. The social representation of ‘hearing loss’ is different in different countries such as India, Iran, Portugal, and the UK, as was evidenced in previous research. This study...