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The birth of the TWJ Foundation

14 October 2022
For nearly 50 years, the TWJ Foundation has been promoting the advancement of otology and audiology through education and research. David Wright looks back at its first half century.

In conversation with Emma Stapleton, winner of the Hunter Doig Medal 2022

3 June 2023
The Hunter Doig Medal is awarded once every two years to a female Fellow or Member of the Royal College of the Surgeons of Edinburgh who has demonstrated outstanding career potential and ambition. The medal is named after two female surgeons, Alice Headwards-Hunter and Caroline Doig.

COACH calls for participants

29 January 2024
The Nottingham Clinical Trials Unit has renewed a call for volunteers to take part in its COACH programme. The UK-wide trail aims to generate evidence about the use of hearing aids.

From the editor March/April 2024

4 March 2024 |
Declan Costello, MA, MBBS, FRCS(ORL-HNS),Consultant Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeon, Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, Berkshire, UK. E: d.costello@nhs.netTW / X: @Voicedoctor_uk Changes are afoot here at ENT & Audiology News, so loyal readers will notice a few differences for March/April...
Photo showing Laurel trying out the Boarding Glasses on the boat.

Boarding Glasses: could these unique spectacles be the answer to alleviating motion sickness?

2 November 2020 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Laurel Palmer is a Toronto-based Audiologist who also suffers from motion sickness. For Tech Reviews, she is testing out Boarding Glasses by Boarding Ring, on the road and at sea, to see if they can give her some relief. Motion...

ESPO Marseille 2020

31 October 2018 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Paediatrics
The biennial ESPO meetings have established themselves as the premier forum for paediatric otolaryngologists to share their knowledge and research. Hardly has ESPO Stockholm finished, and plans are already underway for ESPO 2020. Jean-Michel Triglia and Richard Nicollas and tell...

What can be done to encourage training doctors to pursue a career in paediatric ENT?

2 May 2025 | | ENTA - Paediatrics
Paediatric ENT is often considered the ‘Cinderella’ subspeciality within otolaryngology. There are efforts in the UK and overseas to redress the balance. Paediatric ENT is a specialised field that addresses the unique needs of children with otolaryngological disorders. Despite its...

Are we making progress on tinnitus?

23 May 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Otology
One of the aspects of tinnitus that drew me into it becoming a major theme of my clinical and research work was how little work had been done when I began to see patients in the mid 1980s. This struck...

In conversation with Professor Bill Gibson: When a Padawan meets his master again

1 November 2017 | | ENTA - Auditory Implants, ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Paediatrics
“It was a privilege to have conducted an interview with Professor Gibson, my mentor and teacher, during the six months I was the Graham Fraser Foundation (GFF) Fellow in Sydney in 2005. Twelve years later, I am absolutely delighted to...

Murder most foul, strange and unnatural

13 November 2019 | | ENTA - ENT
Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare at the very beginning of the 17th century has definite otological interest. The whole play is about young Prince Hamlet’s revenge for his father’s murder. The king is killed by Hamlet’s wicked uncle, who then...

History of ENT - Murder most foul, strange and unnatural

25 June 2019 |
Hamlet written by William Shakespeare at the very beginning of the 17th century has definite otological interest. The whole play is about young Prince Hamlet’s revenge for his father’s murder. The king is killed by Hamlet’s wicked uncle, who then...

The artificial eardrum: how an eggshell membrane fed a German ENT family

3 September 2024 | | ENTA - ENT
In the pre-antibiotic era, purulent otitis media often resulted in a permanent eardrum perforation with hearing loss. In addition to pig or fish bladders, eggshell membranes and cigarette paper were used as eardrum prostheses. I have vivid personal boyhood memories...