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100,000 Genomes Project: in conversation with Tess Lopez

1 July 2021 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
For Jul/Aug 2021, ENT & Audiology News features several contributions from the 100,000 Genomes Project, and Tess Lopez very kindly agreed to talk to me about her involvement with the project, as well as sharing her personal experiences of having...

Children like to talk

1 September 2019 | | ENTA - Speech and Language Therapy
When a health professional, including speech and language therapists, treats a child, they will often ask the parent or relative of the child for information on the issue and its impact. Yet children will frequently have an opinion on their...

What does an Olympic medal and surgery have in common?

1 November 2016 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA - Paediatrics
Competing against female Eastern Bloc athletes in the 1980s was a thankless task, demanding a mulish tenacity in an often futile cause. Ideal preparation for a career in surgery? My path to medicine was unusual, in that I left school...

Treating benign positional paroxysmal vertigo

1 May 2015 |
Benign positional paroxysmal vertigo (BPPV) is one of the most common causes of dizziness. Its treatment is the repositioning of displaced otoliths by the canalith repositioning manoeuvre (CRM). Post manoeuvre restrictions are commonly given to the patient. Their benefit has...
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Newborn sensorineural hearing loss – what is the incidence?

4 March 2024 | | ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Paediatrics
In the last two decades, the introduction of newborn screening for hearing loss has dramatically lowered the average age of newborn hearing loss diagnosis to around two to three months of age. The benefits of early diagnosis are manifold, enabling...

Portable otoscopy image capture devices – a comparative review

1 July 2018 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Otology
The use of photo documentation in ENT clinics is becoming more common as technological advances have made the hardware required more accessible. There is significant variation in the price of products. Daniel Moualed, Olivia Whiteside and Chris Aldren review the...

Treatment regret in head and neck cancer – trading function for survival

2 July 2025 | | ENTA - Head & Neck
Treatment for H&N cancer can be extremely tough for patients. How do we explain the likely impact as they try to make decisions? And what happens when they regret their choice? Treatment regret is a form of decision regret, involving...

Managing sustainability

3 November 2023 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Planetary health needs to be addressed at a societal level for any meaningful impact to occur. As the global director of sustainability for a law firm, Marion Palmer provides an overview of the responsibilities of corporate organisations for both a...

Near-miss in otolaryngology head and neck surgery

1 September 2018 | | ENTA - ENT
It is recommended by John Fenton that we as a specialty need to embrace the concept of, take responsibility for and learn from all near-miss events, rather than our traditional haphazard approach of an occasional educational anecdote or case report....

BACO: The Master’s role

1 July 2015 | | ENTA - ENT
Ian Mackay is this year’s BACO Master, with Valerie Lund taking over for the next meeting. As the senior overseer of the conference, the role of Master is a crucial one, and Ian tells us how he has gone about...

Armageddon and surgical outcomes

1 January 2015 | | ENTA - ENT
In the excitement of the festive season I am sure many of you will have omitted to commemorate the 60th anniversary of a highly significant world event. According to a small apocalyptic cult led by a Chicago housewife named Dorothy...

The totally implantable cochlear implant

4 September 2025 | | ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Neurotology, ENTA - Auditory Implants
*The authors are in alphabetical order – both authors are first authors on this publication A groundbreaking fully implantable cochlear implant marks the start of a new era in hearing restoration – discreet, continuous and free from external hardware. The...