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Tackling information overload and retention – interactive multimedia videos for first-time hearing aid users

1 November 2014 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
If you are an audiologist reading this article, how confident are you that all the information and advice that you offer your first-time hearing aid (HA) patients is understood, absorbed and then acted upon once they leave the comfort of...

Knowledge is power: the power of mobile technologies to enhance hearing-related knowledge

1 March 2017 | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
In recent years, the widespread use of smartphones has made it increasingly possible to improve knowledge, understanding and delivery of hearing healthcare. Melanie Ferguson tells us about the advances in mobile-health applications. Think back to five years ago - what...

Running a post-COVID smell clinic

1 July 2021 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
Over the past year, much of our effort as a speciality has been directed towards crisis management and keeping services afloat. Our practice has changed in untold ways, but unprecedented numbers of patients with smell disorders will increasingly require our...

Aligning hearing and cognitive healthcare in older people

6 November 2024 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
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...

New bone anchored hearing implant reaches clinical milestone

1 March 2015 | | ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Auditory Implants, ENTA - Neurotology, ENTA - Otology
A new implant for bone-conduction hearing, BCI (Bone Conduction Implant), has been developed by Bo Håkansson and his team of researchers at Chalmers University of Technology and Sahlgrenska University Hospital, both in Gothenburg, Sweden. Unlike most bone-conduction devices used today,...

Introduction to virtual healthcare job interviews

7 January 2021 | | ENTA - General
What’s the best way to run a video job interview? Matthew Wu and Elliott Kozin provide some top tips – both for interviewer and interviewee. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has changed almost every aspect of society. For the foreseeable future,...

ENT bodies stand up for Ukraine

7 March 2022
Leading ENT and audiology organisations have made a stand against Russia’s war in Ukraine.

St Æbbe the Younger of Coldingham, patron saint of the nose

4 March 2024 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
Stories of the saints are often rather dark and unpleasant – and this is certainly the case with St Æbbe, as we hear from our roving historian, John Riddington Young. In two previous articles, we have discovered the fascinating stories...

How I lost my hearing aid…and other patient experiences

1 November 2014 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
All audiologists, I am sure, would claim that they give full explanations of hearing aid controls and use of the devices at all fitting appointments. However, we know that patients do not always absorb all that they are told and...

Hearing ‘aid’ for Ukraine

4 March 2025 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
Hearing Aid Recycling (HAR) has partnered with Ukraine’s Vidchui organisation to deliver 1000 hearing aids to those affected by war. This collaboration provides essential support for military personnel and civilians suffering from hearing loss, highlighting the power of global solidarity...

Surgeons and swearing

1 July 2017 | | ENTA - Head & Neck
We will all know colleagues who have raised the act of swearing to an art form; just as Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It could cut a workmate in half with a well-placed swear word, surgeons can be equally...

Giacomo Puccini’s laryngeal cancer

1 September 2015 | | ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice
Giacomo Puccini, one of the best known composers of all time, was diagnosed with laryngeal cancer and died from the disease in 1924. In this article, Rosario Marchese-Ragona and Alessandro Martini describe Puccini’s experience of the disease with quotes from...