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How will our grandchildren view COVID-19?

25 June 2020 | | ENTA - ENT
Alan Johnson, known to our readers as the former President of ENT UK, gives us his thoughts on the COVID pandemic, looking at it through the lens of other health crises. As I write, COVID-19 is displacing almost all other...

In conversation with Professor Graeme Clark

1 September 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Paediatrics
As we celebrate the cochlear implant, we celebrate an amazing work of innovative biomedical engineering that is a life-changer to many recipients around the world. We take for granted the arduous journey of the cochlear implant since its conception. Eric...

BPPV duration as a predictor for therapy

1 March 2016 |
Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) is one of the most common vestibuar disorders encountered in the neurotology clinic. The majority of cases of BPPV are due to vestibuar lithiasis in the posterior semicircular canal, but there are reports of cases...

How interaural level differences differ between children with bilateral cochlear implants and their normally-hearing peers

5 July 2022 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric | Bilateral Cochlear Implants, Children, Interaural Level Difference, Localization
A group in the Netherlands investigated interaural level differences (ILDs) in children who were bilaterally implanted with cochlear implants (CIs) and compared their performance to their normally-hearing peers. ILDs are used to localise sound and rely on the high-frequency cues....

Patient and public involvement in research

1 January 2016 | | ENTA - ENT
One step further from involving patients in setting research priorities is to involve them in the planning and recruitment stages of the subsequent trials and studies. Here, Carl Philpott and Aneeka Degun explain the concept of Patient and Public Involvement...

The National Bone Conducting Hearing Implant Registry

1 November 2016 | | ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology
Are you an otologist with an interest in implant surgery? Is your unit on the registry? If not, you’d better have a good excuse after reading this… What is the National BCHI Registry? The National Bone Conducting Hearing Implant (BCHI)...

ENT UK Head & Neck Meeting

14 March 2025 | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
The ENT UK Head and Neck Evidence-Based Management Meeting focusing on malignancy of the nose and paranasal sinuses was held in the historic market town of York. The multidisciplinary approach required to manage this complex disease was reflected in the speaker lineup, with national representation from ENT, maxillofacial and plastic surgery, oncology, palliative medicine, histopathology and radiology.

World Health Assembly adopts a resolution on hearing loss: a defining moment for the global hearing health community

1 November 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
The World Health Assembly recently adopted a resolution on hearing loss. In this article Shelly Chadha and Alarcos Cieza outline how the resolution came to be and how the World Health Organization and its partners plan to implement it. The...

Global Ambassadors Highlights of the Year

2 October 2019
Audiology, Indian Subcontinent, Krishna Yerraguntla Over 466-million people live with disabling hearing loss and global costs of unaddressed hearing loss is 750-billion international dollars. Thus, to alleviate the impact of hearing loss on lives of people, The World Hearing Day...

Gene therapy restores baby’s hearing

31 May 2024
The guest editor of a forthcoming supplement for ENT & Audiology News has helped enable a baby girl born deaf to hear unaided for the first time.

Middle ear reconstruction in children: why, when and how

31 October 2018 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Paediatrics
Every ear in every child is different. Rob Nash discusses the rationale behind reconstructive ear surgery in children and his philosophy on timing and techniques of reconstruction. It is rare for middle ear pathologies to be life threatening. Indeed, it...

What I look for at a conference (and why you should go to BACO 2023)

5 July 2022 | | ENTA - General
Professor Claire Hopkins has attended more than her fair share of international meetings, and she shares her top tips. COVID has changed the face of medical education forever – who would have thought only a few years ago that we...